Category: American Countryside
Jacksonville, Illinois’ Wheels
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/15Aug23-Eli-Bridge-Company-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The numbers 1 and 17 are important in Jacksonville, IL. Those are the numbers of two machines built here that…
A Ride on a Contraption that Inspired
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/14Aug23-Eli-Bridge-Company-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was a moment of inspiration. A man took a ride on an amazing contraption that resulted in him just…
Clark Gable as a Dying Union Soldier
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/11Aug23-Atlanta-Cyclorama-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many people remember Clark Gable in the movie Gone With the Wind. But have you seen him in his role…
How A Bankruptcy Benefitted Atlanta
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/10Aug23-Atlanta-Cyclorama-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Never was the bankruptcy of a circus so fortuitous to a city. Not only did they pick up what would…
A Large Wall For a Campaign Poster
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/09Aug23-Atlanta-Cyclorama-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It began life as a campaign poster, although you would have to have one very large wall to ever hang…
The Jolly Green Giant
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/08Aug23-Jolly-Green-Giant-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Just about all of us have seen a picture of the Jolly Green Giant. But have you ever seen what…
A Reason to Stop Off Interstate 90
An interstate can help connect a town to others, but it may also provide a way for motorists to zip by a place without stopping…
A Place That’s a Little Peculiar
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/04Aug23-Peculiar-Missouri.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Not all of us can live in a normal place. While most of the nation lives in cities that aren’t…
An Italian Settlement Along the Gulf Shores
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/03Aug23-Daphne-Alabama-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some cities or regions are known for the nationalities of the people who settled there. But this perhaps seems a…
A Tree with Notoriety
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/02Aug23-Daphne-Alabama-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The resort was a place that saw entertainers of the day stop and provider performances…Alfred says even President Millard Fillmore…
The Captain Who Needed Some Water
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/01Aug23-Daphne-Alabama-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Did you ever visit a location and say to yourself, “I wish I could live here.” That’s in a since…
Surviving a Blizzard on Christmas Candy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/31Jul23-Laura-Ingalls-Wilder-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are tales of locusts that consumer the crops and a blizzard so bad that a man had to hunker…
The Dugout on Plumb Creek
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/28Jul23-Laura-Ingalls-Wilder-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Early pioneers sometimes did not have the means or resources to build a house on the prairie. They instead created…
The Wilder Pageant
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/27Jul23-Wilder-Pageant.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This outdoor theatre has been taking place since the 1970s. It’s hosted in a very small town and is all…
The Fastest Blackbird
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/26Jul23-SAC-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s the largest and fastest blackbird you’ll ever see. But it’s just one of many intriguing items associated with America’s…
The Fame of Charles Lindbergh
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/25Jul23-Lindbergh-Little-Falls-Minnesota-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s hare do describe just how famous this man had become. It’s estimated that in the late 1920s one in…
Seeing His First Airplane
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/24Jul23-Lindbergh-Little-Falls-Minnesota-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Do you remember seeing an important event for the first time when you were a kid. That was the case…
Boy Charles, The Inventor
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/21Jul23-Lindbergh-Little-Falls-Minnesota-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes kids, even from an early age, will give you a glimpse of what they might do or become as…
Lincoln’s 81 Bottle of Champagne
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/20Jul23-Lincoln-Vandalia-Illinois-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What was Abraham Lincoln doing with 81 bottles of champagne and 14 pounds of raisins? Thankfully he didn’t consume them…
Lincoln’s Start in Politics
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/19Jul23-Lincoln-Vandalia-Illinois-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You can go to Springfield, IL and learn plenty about president Abraham Lincoln. His home and presidential library are there. …
