Category: American Countryside
Inside Fort Knox
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0507-Fort-Knox-5.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When most of us hear of Fort Knox, we think of gold. While gold is there, there is much more…
The Biggest Vault of All
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0506-Fort-Knox-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Whether you have any or not, many of us are fascinated by gold. It’s the storyline of many a tv…
Where Is the Nation’s Gold?
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0505-Fort-Knox-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Everyone knows that much of the nation’s gold is at Fort Knox. Or is it? That’s the question many wondered…
A Heavily Fortified Treasury
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0504-Fort-Knox-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ve heard of the gold at Fort Knox, and while we can’t go inside the vault, we do know much…
Moving to the Gold Standard
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0501-Fort-Knox-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)During the depths of the US Depression in the 1930s, the federal government took several steps to spur the economy. …
Inside Tuckaleeche Caverns
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0430-Tuckaleeche-Caverns-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)For centuries people have recognized the natural beauty along the border of Tennessee and North Carolina, but Steven Fananda’s family…
Results of a Six Year Old’s Wandering
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0429-Tuckaleeche-Caverns-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Kids may go exploring when they have nothing better to do…and sometimes those adventures can lead to trouble. But for…
General Patton’s Secret Code
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0428-Boundry-Oak-Distilling-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes people will use secret codes to keep vital information from slipping into the wrong hands. General Patton used such…
History and Distilling
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0427-Boundry-Oak-Distilling-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the U.S. adopted prohibition in 1920, most alcohol production ceased, but when production resumed in the 1930s, it seems…
A Large Tree To Mark a Property Boundry
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0424-Boundry-Oak-Distilling-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You can still find some old deeds that use a large tree to mark a property boundary. Such was the…
An American Hero Most People Don’t Know
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0423-Thaddeus-Kosciuszko-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Thomas Jefferson called this man, “As pure a son of liberty as I have ever known.” So who was the…
A Memorial To a Man Who Helped Form a Nation
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0422-Thaddeus-Kosciuszko-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Near the Philadelphia sites that Americans recognize as the birthplace of the country, there is a small memorial to a…
The Wheat King
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0421-The-Wheat-King.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He was known as the Wheat King, a title bestowed on a farmer who built an empire growing the crop…
Willows, California
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0420-Willows-California.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The name of this place tells you what the early settlers found here at the joining of two creeks. The…
A Struggle Engulfing Two States
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0417-Hatfield-McCoys-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In a museum in Pikeville, Kentucky you’ll find a peace treaty between the states of Kentucky and West Virginia. It…
The Hatfields and the McCoys
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0416-Hatfield-McCoys-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the end of the Civil War occurred in 1865, some of the fighting in eastern Kentucky was just getting…
Difficult Travel in the Civil War
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0415-Hatfield-McCoys-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The terrain of eastern Kentucky makes travel a bit of an adventure yet today. Roads and highways snake between the…
The Lost Nation Christmas Tree Tradition
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/03/2026-0414-Lost-Nation-Christmas-Tree.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many towns and cities put up Christmas decorations during the holiday season. In this small town they put up a…
Lost Nation
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/03/2026-0413-Lost-Nation-Iowa.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In east central Iowa you’ll find the small town of Lost Nation, Iowa. Interestingly, the story of how it was…
The Real-Life Aunt Jemima
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/03/2026-0410-Aunt-Jemima-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 2020 the use of Aunt Jemima as a brand name was discontinued due to racial stereotypes. However, the story…
