Author: Tom
The Joshua Tree
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/08/20Aug20-Joshua-Tree-National-Park-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Although it is called a tree by name, it certainly doesn’t look anything like an oak, elm or maple. In…
Putting Hats on the Map
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/08/19Aug20-Iowa-Hat-Lady-2020-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)People always ask who is the most interesting person I’ve interviewed? It’s a question with many answers, and most of…
The Hat Lady, Alvina Sellers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/08/18Aug20-Iowa-Hat-Lady-2020-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Dr. Suess wrote the cat in the hat, but he should have consulted an expert like Alvina Sellers for background…
An Influential First Lady
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/08/17Aug20-Eleanor-Roosevelt.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They were two of the most influential people to occupy the 20th century White House. I’m not talking about two…
The Sound of Ringing Rocks
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/08/14Aug20-Ringing-Rocks.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)People have been coming to this park north of Philadelphia to play rock music for decades. They are unique sounds…
Fort Buford’s Importance
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/08/13Aug20-Yellowstone-Confluence-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today little remains of Ft. Buford just inside North Dakota’s border with Montana. Yet it was one of the most…
An Important Marker for Lewis & Clark
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/08/12Aug20-Yellowstone-Confluence-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today it is a point just inside North Dakota’s border with Montana. Then it was an important marker on the…
Getting an Opportunity for Education
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/08/11Aug20-Booker-T-Washington-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When this man was born, he was barred from getting an education. Remarkably, much of his life was spent making…
One of the Great Leaders
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/08/10Aug20-Booker-T-Washington-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He was one of the great leaders of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and when you consider he…
More Than a Cottonwood Tree
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/07/07Aug20-Marceline-Walt-Disney-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s just a cottonwood tree. Well, to this man it was THE tree. It was the place where his dreams…
A Regular Stop in Marceline, Missouri
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/07/06Aug20-Marceline-Walt-Disney-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the days when passenger trains crisscrossed the nation, the train depot in Marceline, Missouri saw plenty of traffic. One…
Encouragement for a Lifetime of Creative Thinking
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/07/05Aug20-Marceline-Walt-Disney-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1906 this man’s family moved from Chicago to a farm in northern Missouri. That relocation may have made all…
Teaching a Unique Craft to Keep the Skill Alive
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/07/04Aug20-Ryan-Staub-Glass-Blowing-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s estimated that there are fewer than 5000 people still involved in this craft in the U.S. Ryan believes the…
A Hot Summer Job
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/07/03Aug20-Ryan-Staub-Glass-Blowing-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Maybe you think you have a hot summer time job. I doubt you’ll deal with more heat than Ryan. His…
A Unique Store in Maui
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/07/31Jul20-Endangered-Pieces-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some people visit a store just to look at the merchandise. David’s store has a unique policy: you are free…
Endangered Pieces
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/07/30Jul20-Endangered-Pieces-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We’ve heard of endangered species, but the name of David’s store is “Endangered Pieces.” He considers most of what he…
A Century-old Steakhouse
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/07/29Jul20-Peter-Luger-Steakhouse-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Across the East River on the Long Island side of the Brooklyn Bridge there is a place that has changed…
The Best Steak
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/07/28Jul20-Peter-Luger-Steakhouse-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)As long as there have been cattle on the range, there has been debate over who could serve up the…
Two Different Burial Spot Claims
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/07/27Jul20-Sitting-Bull.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He is one of the greatest Indian chiefs ever to lead his tribes in peace and battle. Ironically, two different…
The Lost Colony of Roanoke
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/07/24Jul20-Fort-Raleigh-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s known as the lost colony of Roanoke…a settlement of English that vanished between 1587 and 1590 in what is…
