Category: American Countryside
Joe Cannon’s Early Lessons
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/07Sep23-Speaker-of-the-House-Joe-Cannon-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What happens in a kid’s life can have an impact on what they do later in life. That was the…
A Name Within a Name
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/06Sep23-Speaker-of-the-House-Joe-Cannon-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A name may say a lot about a person. In this case, there was a man’s name within a man’s…
The Landmark Golf Course
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/05Sep23-Landmark-Golf-Course-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You won’t find a big sign for this place and you’ll travel down plenty of gravel roads to reach it…
Traveling Gravel Roads to Golf
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/04Sep23-Landmark-Golf-Course-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)“Landmand” is the Danish word for farmer and in northeast Nebraska you’ll find a place that recently opened with that…
A Piece of Ground that Stands Out
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/01Sep23-Landmark-Golf-Course-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Bryce Andersen’s family had a piece of ground that stood out, but for the wrong reasons. It was just too…
Stephen Douglas Birthplace
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/31Aug23-Stephen-Douglas-Birthplace.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Abraham Lincoln led the country through the Civil War…but it was this man who defeated him for the senate just…
An Aviation Pioneer
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/30Aug23-Carl-Ben-Eielson-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Carl Ben Eielson hailed from Hatton, North Dakota. He was a pioneer in aviation and helped open the vast Alaskan…
Bringing the First Airplane to Alaska
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/29Aug23-Carl-Ben-Eielson-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the 1920 a guy named Carl brought the first airplane to Fairbanks, Alaska. What took place from there would…
Carl Ben Eielson
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/28Aug23-Carl-Ben-Eielson-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you live in the states of North Dakota or Alaska, you quite likely have heard of Carl Ben Eielson. …
More Than Peanut Butter
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/25Aug23-George-Washington-Carver-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may know him for just one thing…peanut butter…but in a moment you’ll see just how much this man accomplished. …
One of the Most Famous Agricultural Scientists
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/24Aug23-George-Washington-Carver-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He is one of the most famous agricultural scientists…a man who was born a slave and struggled to find a…
A Beautiful Church in Rural Montana
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/23Aug23-St.-Ignatius-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Just north of Missoula, Montana you’ll find a beautiful rural church with quite a story. It’s a place where people…
A Church That’s a Little Different Than Most
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/22Aug23-St.-Ignatius-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Churches began to spring up in many town in the U.S. as they were settled. But this church is perhaps…
The Mind That Help Change the World
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/21Aug23-Edison-West-Orange-Lab-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Even though this young man had but a few months of formal education, you wouldn’t know it by what career…
Influencing the Twentieth Century
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/18Aug23-Edison-West-Orange-Lab-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Although these buildings once had many workers, they now only house tourists. But this is the place that helped build…
An Old Pontiac Wagon
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/17Aug23-Pontiac-Oakland-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we take a look at a very old Pontiac wagon. No, we’re not talking about a station wagon, but…
The Oakland County Car
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/16Aug23-Pontiac-Oakland-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If I were to tell you that there is a car named for Oakland County, Michigan you’d probably not recognize…
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…
