Category: Indiana
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…
Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/10/29Oct20-Tippecanoe.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Perhaps you’ve heard the presidential slogan Tippecanoe and Tyler too. Today’s feature is at Tippecanoe. What is it and why…
The U.S. Record in Park County, Indiana
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/10/13Oct20-Park-County-Indiana-Covered-Bridges-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Park County, Indiana holds a record. If you’ve ever traveled there, you probably know what that record is…and if you…
A Good Roof Goes a Long Way
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/10/12Oct20-Park-County-Indiana-Covered-Bridges-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We’ve heard the cliché that it’s important “to have a good roof over your head.” In this county, the good…
Serving Up Food For All Ages
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/10/05Oct20-Triple-XXX-Cafe-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Every college and university has a place students like to come and eat at just about any hour of the…
A Place With a Triple X Rating
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/09/02Oct20-Triple-XXX-Cafe-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If something is rated “XXX” it might not be suitable for all eyes and ages. However, the triple X here…
From a Knick-Knack to a Collection
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/04/10Apr20-Last-Supper-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Perhaps some husbands listening to this show have been told that if they want to bring a certain knick-knack home…
A Museum Dedicated to a Painting
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/04/09Apr20-Last-Supper-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1495 Leonardo Da Vinci began work on a painting that all of us have seen. In fact, it’s his…
Traveling the Globe to Help People Face Fears
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/01/29Jan20-Fear-Facer-Michelle-Poler-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It all began with a list of one hundred fears. Some may not have seemed like fears for some –…
Facing Fears
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/01/28Jan20-Fear-Facer-Michelle-Poler-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We’ve probably all heard the phrase that we must “Face our Fears.” That can be easy to say and hard…
Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/11/14Nov19-Mike-Rowe-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Mike Rowe came to fame for the dirty jobs he was asked to perform. But how many times did those…
