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Carousel Capitol of the World
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/22Jun21-CW-Park-Carousel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When most people think of this town they perhaps remember one of two things – a fort or a major…
CW Parker
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/21Jun21-CW-Park-Carousel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)CW Parker moved from Illinois to Kansas and his first career was hand digging wells. However, he began to take…
St. Paul’s Church
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/18Jun21-St-Pauls-Church-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, Lutheran…there are many labels that may be placed on churches. However, during the early years of this…
A Symbol for the Struggle of Freedom
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/17Jun21-St-Pauls-Church-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Just outside of New York City proper, yet well within the urban corridor, there sits a church in the suburb…
Death Alley
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/16Jun21-The-Dalton-Gang-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today these streets and the adjacent alley are peaceful avenues lines with small town businesses. The fall of 1892, it…
The Dalton Gang
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/15Jun21-The-Dalton-Gang-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Bob, Emmit and Grat…three brothers that returned to their hometown to do business…but the business to be transacted would cost…
The World’s Fifth Largest Airforce – And it Doesn’t Leave the Ground
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/14Jun21-The-Boneyard-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s the fifth largest air force in the world…but few of the planes here will fly…or even if they could,…
I Need Some Parts for my Fighter Jet
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/11Jun21-The-Boneyard-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you were looking for some used parts to repair your car, you might go to a scrapyard to find…
Don’t Paint My Tractor!
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/10Jun21-Hart-Parr-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Ask any farmer what is their favorite color on the farm and they most likely know you are asking them…
Coining “Tractor”
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/09Jun21-Hart-Parr-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They were not the first to invent a tractor, but they were the first to call it that. And a…
The Soldier in the Field – Now in the Town
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/08Jun21-Soldier-in-the-Field-Monument-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Near the town square in Memphis, Missouri you’ll find a monument to a soldier who died in Word War I. …
Purnell Barnett’s Unique Marker
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/07Jun21-Soldier-in-the-Field-Monument-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)His name was Purnell Barnett. He died in World War I before he ever reached the battlefields of Europe. For…
The Story of Ella Ewing
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/05/04Jun21-Ella-Ewing-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine getting paid $1000 per month just so people come and meet you. It was an unusual request – a…
A Lady Who Towered Above Everyone
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/05/03Jun21-Ella-Ewing-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we say hello to our listeners on KMEM in Memphis, Missouri. Folks there know that there was once a…
Clark’s Trading Post
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/05/02Jun21-Clarks-Trading-Post-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine an animal show where bears bolted from the stage and barreled past tourists to make a break from the…
A Place That Needed a Stopper
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/05/01Jun21-Clarks-Trading-Post-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Along I-93 in northern New Hampshire, you’ll find a spot that’s been attracting familes for three and four generations now….
Loyal to the King
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/05/31May21-Philips-Manor-Hall-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When America won her independence, there were thousands of men and women who remained loyal to England during the war. …
Did you Know There Was a Declaration of Dependence?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/05/28May21-Philips-Manor-Hall-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Fifty-six men signed the declaration of Independence in July of 1776, but not everyone was pleased with the patriotic document. …
The Woman at the Helm of a Vast Empire
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/05/27May21-Philips-Manor-Hall-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s rare to find a young married lady commanding a ship, crisscrossing the Atlantic multiple times each year. Now imagine…
The Woman at the Helm of a Vast Empire
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/05/26May21-King-Neptune-the-Pig-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He was a hero of World War II. And that’s saying something for a pig. Yes, a pig named King…
