http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/12Oct21-Bartlesville-Oil-Well-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)George Keeler noticed his horses wouldn’t drink from this spot on the Caney River.  The location is today an important…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/11Oct21-Bartlesville-Oil-Well-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)William Johnstone and George Keeler were looking for a way to attract the railroad to their new town.  Who knew…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/08Oct21-Balloon-Bombs-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was a foreign attack on the U.S. mainland…yet few have heard the story of Japan’s balloon bombs and the…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/07Oct21-Balloon-Bombs-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Americans know of the bombs Japan dropped at Pearl Harbor…yet few have heard the story of the 9000 that were…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/06Oct21-American-Countryside-25th-Anniversary.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)On October 6th, 1996 I was away from home but called my mom early on a Saturday morning to put…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/05Oct21-Artichoke-Lady-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some people turn up their nose at brussels sprouts.  Where do artichokes fare in comparison?  We head to a valley…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/04Oct21-Artichoke-Lady-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes it’s hard to get kids to eat their vegetables.  Now imagine the vegetable looks like a hand grenade and…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/01Oct21-Arlington-Ladies.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)On Memorial Day we remember our loved ones, but these ladies recognize our fallen soldiers this weekend and every day…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/30Sep21-Daves-Metal-Detecting-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Remember the phrase “finders keepers, losers weepers?” That definitely does not fit this man. When you hear his story, you may come…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/29Sep21-Daves-Metal-Detecting-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Have you ever had to go to a lost and found department? These days, those departments are often found online…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/28Sep21-Daves-Metal-Detecting-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine having a job that is like trying to find the needle in the proverbial haystack. Now imagine that is…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/27Sep21-Youngs-Dairy-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When is an ice cream cone more than just ice cream in a cone?  It is here.  It’s a family…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/24Sep21-Youngs-Dairy-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)North of Xenia, Ohio you’ll find a dairy farm with quite a history.  Not only have they been milking cows…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/23Sep21-Otesage-Hotel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Baseball Hall of Fame has an induction ceremony each year and when that event takes place, the baseball greats…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/22Sep21-Otesage-Hotel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Perhaps you remember the book and the movie, the Last of the Mohicans.  James Fennimore Cooper was the author of…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/21Sep21-Wyoming-Homesteader-Hester-Currence.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you are a resident of Wyoming, a four or five hour drive to get somewhere may not seem too…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/20Sep21-Museum-of-Advertising.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If it were not for sponsors…daily broadcasts like this…and radio stations themselves for that matter would not be able to…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/17Sep21-Union-Pacific-Railroad-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This company was created from scratch in the 1860s.  From the start, those founders knew that their work would be…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/16Sep21-Union-Pacific-Railroad-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This is Mile Zero.  For several years mile zero of this railroad would only take you to the banks or…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/15Sep21-Union-Pacific-Railroad-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Abraham Lincoln had an important decision to make.  Where would be the beginning point of a new railroad.  We don’t…