Ask an American who is the most famous architect in their country’s history and this man’s name is probably at the top of the list….

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/24Feb15-Salton-Sea-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s a lake with an elevation of over 200 feet below sea level.  It’s also a body of water with…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/23Feb15-Salton-Sea-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s the largest lake in California.  So large, in fact, it’s called a sea.  You couldn’t find this lake on…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/20Feb15-Presidents-Week-5.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)He was the only man to serve as president and chief justice, but most people that visit his home here…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/19Feb15-Presidents-Week-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)To date, no U.S. president has been born in North Dakota…but this commander-in-chief experienced a rebirth there that he said…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/18Feb15-Presidents-Week-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)This president set the record for having the most children with a total of 15.  His second wife was actually…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/17Feb15-Presidents-Week-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most people want to elect a president who knows a little, if not a lot about how to govern a…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/16Feb15-Presidents-Week-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This is the man people may have forgot was even President, the man who followed Andrew Jackson…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/13Feb15-New-Mellary-Abbey.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When people began attending funerals here, many had the exact same reaction. They mentioned that when they passed, they wanted…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/12Feb15-4-H-Clover.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)The 4-H Program is now over a century old and many people recognize the familiar green clover that symbolizes those…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/05Jan15-Two-Harbors-Docks.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They are some of the largest boat docks you’ll ever see.  Not mere spots on a lake from which to…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/02Jan15-Best-of-2014-The-Rights-to-a-Cowboy-Song.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)In the 1930s a cowboy song began to get quite a bit of air time on radio stations.  But suddenly…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/01Jan15-Best-of-2014-Burning-the-White-House.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It was an act that seemed unthinkable.  Another nation’s army marched into the United States capital and burned its most…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/31Dec14-Best-of-2014-Navajo-Codetalker.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When World War II began, many men here in Navajo country volunteered for the armed forces.  Some of those men…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/30Dec14-Best-of-2014-Archduke-Ferdinand-Assassination.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s difficult for many of us to name many specific battles or events in World War I.  We may have…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/26Dec14-Best-of-2014-Luckenbach-Texas.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:03 — 2.1MB)Hayden Whittington began driving to Luckenbach, Texas before most people had ever heard of it.  He remembers the days when…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/25Dec14-Holiday-Christmas-Store.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)If Santa Claus needed a place to buy all of his decorations, this would be it. It’s big business in…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/24Dec14-Night-Before-Christmas.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)We know the words of “’twas the night before Christmas;” words that helped solidify the image of Santa over 200…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/28Nov14-Berkley-Plantation.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may have thought Thanksgiving dates back to the pilgrims of Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, but this place claims to…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/27Nov14-Turkey-Talkline.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ve heard from her before, but considering the way some of us cook, maybe you should listen again.  If your…