Category: American Countryside
The Moonshine Cafe
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/05Dec23-Moonshine-Cafe-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine serving hundreds of people out of a small store in very rural Illinois. That’s the setting that takes place…
A Little Bit of Moonshine
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/04Dec23-Moonshine-Cafe-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If I told you people were traveling hundreds of miles to this spot for moonshine, you’d probably think there was…
The Boyhood Home of Wyatt Earp
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/01Dec23-Pella-Iowa-Wyatt-Earp.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Mention the name Wyatt Earp and folks often quickly think of the shootout at the OK Corral. You certainly aren’t…
The Pella Skyline
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/30Nov23-Pella-Iowa-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some cities have skyscrapers that dominate the skyline. When you live in a small town, it could well be the…
Planting 300,000 Flowers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/29Nov23-Pella-Iowa-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some people plant flowers each Spring to spruce up the place they live or work. Now image you have 300,000…
Creating a New Home in a New Land
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/28Nov23-Pella-Iowa-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When about 800 folks wearing strange clothes begin crossing the nation, they are bound to get noticed. That was the…
The A.D. Makepeace Farm
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/27Nov23-AD-Makepeace-Cranberry-Farm-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s hard to imagine a farm growing a crop from vines that are over a century old. But that’s exactly…
Flooding the Fields
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/24Nov23-AD-Makepeace-Cranberry-Farm-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most farmers want to avoid a flood that drenches their crops. Here, it’s just part of the process to keep…
A Place Once Known for Mining Iron
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/23Nov23-AD-Makepeace-Cranberry-Farm-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s hard to image that a place once known for mining iron would become an area that later was recognized…
The First Farmers in America
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/22Nov23-Lewis-Clark-Sheheke.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They were the first farmers in America…growing the crops, fruits and vegetables to sustain their tribe as well as some…
An Important Part of Lewis & Clark’s Journey
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/21Nov23-Lewis-Clark-Fort-Mandan-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It is said that there are more statues in America of this lady than any other. Quite an accomplishment considering…
Lewis & Clark’s First Winter
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/20Nov23-Lewis-Clark-Fort-Mandan-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Lewis and Clark spent two winters away from home on their trip to the Pacific Ocean…the first winter was cold…
A Gift from the President and First Lady
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/17Nov23-Mamie-Eisenhower-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What do you give as a gift to someone who has meant a great deal to you throughout your life? …
The Birthplace of a First Lady
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/16Nov23-Mamie-Eisenhower-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)General and US President Dwight Eisenhower hailed from Abilene KS. The first lady to be, hailed from here… That location…
Retuning the Belongs of Dick Shafer
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/15Nov23-Boone-Iowa-History-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many towns across this country sent men and women overseas during World War II. And in many of those same…
The History of Boone, Iowa
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/14Nov23-Boone-Iowa-History-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Boone, Iowa is about 30 minutes north and slightly west of Des Moines. These fertile farm fields also yielded some…
Architect William Thornton
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/13Nov23-Octagon-House-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the British entered the Washington, D.C. during the War of 1812, they burned many of the government’s buildings, including…
The Octagon House
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/10Nov23-Octagon-House-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Everyone knows the Pentagon is in Washington. But did you know the city is home to an Octagon as well? …
Springing Into Existence
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/09Nov23-Oklahoma-Land-Run-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If a city grows quickly, we might say it sprang up overnight. This state capital literally sprang into existence in…
Running to Get a Deal
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/08Nov23-Oklahoma-Land-Run-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you found a great deal on a house of a piece of land, we might say that we ran…
