Category: Indiana
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…
Olympic Gold Medalist Scott Hamilton
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/01/10Jan23-Scott-Hamilton-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Fourteen Americans have won an Olympic gold medal in individual figure skating. For Scott Hamilton, his gold medal is just…
Overcoming Failure to Reach Triumph
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/01/09Jan23-Scott-Hamilton-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many athletes have stories of overcoming failure in order to reach triumph. For Scott Hamilton, the journey to a gold…
Getting Involved in a Sport By Accident
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/06Jan23-Scott-Hamilton-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Scott Hamilton was never supposed to accomplish much in sports, let alone win a gold medal. In fact, the way…
The Biggest Steer on Record
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/03/22Mar22-Big-Ben-the-Steer-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He is the biggest steer on record – a beef that was over 16 feet in length and weighed well…
No Beef Better than Ben
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/03/21Mar22-Big-Ben-the-Steer-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Beef producers are usually looking for an efficient, high quality steer to feed. Perhaps there was none better than Ben,…
Remembering LeRoy Keyes
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/12/20Dec21-LeRoy-Keyes.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In1968, O.J Simpson won the Heisman Trophy…but it was this man who was runner-up in the Heisman balloting that year. …
Completing a Castle
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/22Oct21-Boldt-Castle-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was a grand project that employed a hundred workers or more, building a castle on an island in New…
Building a Castle for your Love
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/21Oct21-Boldt-Castle-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)George immigrated from Prussia in the 1800s and settled in New York City. His hard work paid off and he…
Giant Sycamore Stump
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/18Oct21-Kokomo-Sycamore-Stump.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many folks enjoy trees in their yard that provide shade on a summer day and beauty with the fall colors. …
Kokomo Opalescent Glass
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/15Oct21-Kokomo-Glass-Company-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When your product is estimated to be found in seventy-five percent of the world’s churches, you know your company has…
The Amazing Torches of Kokomo
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/14Oct21-Kokomo-Glass-Company-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Dig into the photo archives around Kokomo, Indiana and you’re bound to find plenty of pictures, commonplace in the 1880s,…
What is It? How do you Spell it?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/13Oct21-Kokomo-Glass-Company-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Jeff Shaw owns a company in which he has to answer two questions quite often – What is it and…
The Vice President Who Dueled
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/08/10Aug21-Vice-President-Center-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are plenty of interesting stories to be found in the history of the U.S. presidency…and if you take a…
The Unknown Vice Presidents of the United States
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/08/09Aug21-Vice-President-Center-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Elbridge Gerry, Rufus King, Schyler Colfax…they’re names probably not that familiar to both of us…yet at one time they were…
Vincennes Rendezvous
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/22Mar21-Vincennes-Rendevous.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1779, soldiers of the American Revolution set foot here to capture lands for the new United States. Over two…
Building a Library You Can Fish From
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/01/28Jan21-Ben-Hur-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some people fix up their office with pictures and knick-knacks that remind them of their favorite things in life. This…
Earning Royalties from Naming Pets
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/01/27Jan21-Ben-Hur-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some people put a lot of thought into the names of their animals. But would you be willing to pay…
The Best Selling Book that Made Lew Famous
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/01/26Jan21-Ben-Hur-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may have never heard the name Lew Wallace, but I bet you’ve heard of one of the books he…
Wild Child – Lew Wallace
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/01/25Jan21-Ben-Hur-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He was a wild child. The son of a governor he was also a military veteran, artist, writer, lawyer…the list…
