Category: American Countryside
The Eisenhower Farm
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/01Apr14-Eisenhower-Farm-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It may be an overstatement to proclaim that a herd of cattle helped thaw the cold war. However a visit…
The President’s Farm
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/31Mar14-Eisenhower-Farm-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many U.S. presidents grew up on a farm. However, their duties as chief executive often took them away from rural…
Sitting Bull
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/28Mar14-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…
Nick’s Hamburger Shop
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/27Mar14-Brookings-South-Dakota-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This hamburger shop has been around longer that just about everyone living in Brookings, South Dakota. When you’ve been in…
Why Brookings?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/26Mar14-Brookings-South-Dakota-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Just about every town has a namesake. Perhaps it’s a president, general or early settler whose name was chosen to identify…
The Jumpin’ Jesse James
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/03/25Mar14-Devils-Gulch-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)After a failed bank robbery attempt in Northfield, Minnesota, the James gang headed west toward the Dakota Territory. Near what…
Devil’s Gulch
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/03/24Mar14-Devils-Gulch-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Long before Europeans ever discovered this deep ravine, native Americans had been coming here. It was a sacred place they…
A Permanent Trip to Luckenbach
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/21Mar14-Luckenbach-Texas-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)Hayden Whittington began driving to Luckenbach, Texas before most people had ever heard of it. He remembers the days when…
Back to Luckenbach, Texas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/20Mar14-Luckenbach-Texas-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:03 — 2.1MB)This town has been on the map since the 1840s. Yet many would tell you no one every came looking…
A Ghost Town with a Steady Stream of Visitors
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/19Mar14-Luckenbach-Texas-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In the hill country surrounding Fredericksburg, Texas, there are many communities settled by German immigrants. They became place to get…
The Barbershop of the Famous Haircut
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/18Mar14-Elvis-Barbershop-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Next to Delilah’s shearing of strongman Samson, it’s perhaps the most famous haircut in history. Many young ladies wondered if…
Elvis Joins the Army
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/17Mar14-Elvis-Barbershop-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)From 1958 to 1960, Elvis Pressley was part of the active military. He spent time at Ft. Hood, Texas and…
The Sailing Capitol of the United States
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/14Mar14-Annapolis.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It is known as the sailing capitol of the United States. It also happens to be a state capitol, a…
The National Museum of the War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/13Mar14-Combat-Zone-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some say Marvin gets to play with very large toys. He might even say that himself. Machine guns, tanks, flame…
Tanks and Barbed Wire in a Tropical Oasis
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/12Mar14-Combat-Zone-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the middle of Texas’s hill country you’ll find a tropical oasis. There’s sand and palm trees, but you’ll also…
The Menger Hotel
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/11Mar14-Menger-Hotel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine a well-known general riding his horse into the lobby of a hotel…and it was met with applause. Another military…
A Bath With Every Room
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/10Mar14-Menger-Hotel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today just about every hotel room in America has a private bathroom included. Turn back the clock over a century…
Streets Wide Enough for Ox Cart U-Turns
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/07Mar14-Fredericksburg-Texas.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Today cities don’t need to be laid out so that ox carts can make U-turns. However, that was the plan…
France’s Gift of the 40 and 8
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/06Mar14-40-and-8-Boxcar-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Thousands of boxcars crisscross the country each day with a variety of cargo. But these boxcars were truly special, because…
The 40 and 8
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/05Mar14-40-and-8-Boxcar-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The term 40 & 8 doesn’t mean much to most Americans–unless you happened to serve in France during one of…
