http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/27Oct23-Captain-Kirk-Future-Birthplace.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Over the years we’ve done many stories from towns that are the birthplace of famous people.  In fact, just about…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/26Oct23-Anne-Frank-Letters-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Not many people write letters these days, opting for emails, texts and the like.  But this letter is one that…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/25Oct23-Anne-Frank-Letters-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Did you ever save a letter that was important to you?  This lady did.  It was a nice letter from…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/24Oct23-Anne-Frank-Letters-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Way back when I was in school our classes sometimes had penpals.  That was the case for this school in…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/02/06Feb23-Bily-Clocks-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the summer of 1893 a unique visitor arrived in Spillville, Iowa.  He loved the place so much that he…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/01/03Feb23-Bily-Clocks-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1928 the Bily brothers received quite an offer from Henry Ford.  He offered them one million dollars for something…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/01/02Feb23-Bily-Clocks-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Bily brothers were farmers near Spillville, Iowa.  But it’s what the brothers did when they weren’t farming that has…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/07Dec22-Norman-Borlaug-Home-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In an era when most farm boys completed eighth grade at most, this family saw something in their son that…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/06Dec22-Norman-Borlaug-Home-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The old farmhouse that sits about a dozen miles south of Cresco, Iowa that probably appears a lot like other…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/09/19Sep22-American-Gothic-House-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Just about every day there are people driving to this small Iowa town to get their picture taken.  It’s not…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/09/16Sep22-American-Gothic-House-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If an artist painted a picture of his sister and his dentist, you’d probably doubt it would be anything special. …

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/07/02Aug22-Squirrel-Cage-Jail-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Prisoners have used many different methods to escape from their cells.  A man in this jail crawled through pipes of…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/07/01Aug22-Squirrel-Cage-Jail-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you seem to be busy, but going nowhere in life, you might be said to be a “hamster in…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/13May22-Camp-Algona-Iowa-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s hard to imagine being held as a prisoner of war and then, after the war, immigrating to the country…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/12May22-Camp-Algona-Iowa-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Over the years you’ve heard us feature some towns in the heartland of America that served as POW camps during…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/11May22-KMA-Radio-History.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine hosting a breakfast so large that you needed to buy pancake flour by the boxcar.  That’s exactly what happened…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/20Apr22-Perry-Iowa-100-Plus-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Four times each year a group of people in Perry, Iowa are writing $100 checks to an important local cause…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/19Apr22-Perry-Iowa-100-Plus-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s called One Hundred Plus for Perry.  Although local residents can’t take credit for the idea, they adapted in from…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/18Apr22-Grotto-of-the-Redemption-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It took 80 years to build this structure in West Bend, IA and today it is valued in the millions…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/15Apr22-Grotto-of-the-Redemption-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It is a story fitting for the message of Good Friday – the story of a priest who recovered from…