Category: Kansas
Evel, Not Evil
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/02/01Mar21-Evel-Knievel-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It all began with a motorcycle jump in a local parade that went awry. Soon snakes were slithering towards spectators…
America’s Underground Attic
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/02/11Feb21-Kansas-Salt-Mine-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It could be a cellar, an attic or even a storage unit. Many of us have a place to keep…
Where the Real Movie Film is Found
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/02/10Feb21-Kansas-Salt-Mine-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Movie companies have been shooting film for over a century and most of them didn’t want to get rid of…
Inspiration from the Monuments Men
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/02/09Feb21-Kansas-Salt-Mine-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)During World War II a group of soldiers and civilians worked to locate and rescue valuable items confiscated by Hitler’s…
Landmarks of Great Bend, Kansas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/12/14Dec20-Great-Bend-History-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are a couple of landmarks on the edges of Great Bend, Kansas that can tell you a lot about…
Commerce on the High Plains
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/12/11Dec20-Great-Bend-History.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Two centuries ago, it could be a long trip to find the merchandise you wanted or needed. And that fact…
Hallowed Ground for Hotrod Racing Fans
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/12/10Dec20-Great-Bend-Hotrod-Dragstrip-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Baseball fans may long of a trip to see Wrigley Field or Fenway Park. Football fans probably want to visit…
A Repurposed Army Air Base
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/12/09Dec20-Great-Bend-Hotrod-Dragstrip-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we say hello to our listeners on KVGB in Great Bend, KS. Listeners there know that the old army…
Picking Up Relics at a Garage Sale
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/12/08Dec20-Kansas-Cosmophere-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You might pick up a bargain at a garage sale. That’s kind of what the folks in Hutchinson, Kansas did,…
One of the Best Space Museums in the World
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/12/07Dec20-Kansas-Cosmophere-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It all began in the poultry building at the Kansas State Fairgrounds. That was the beginning of one of the…
What Shape Is Your Salt?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/11/04Dec20-Emerson-Cary-Underground-Salt-Mine-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What shape is your salt? Not your salt shaker, but the salt itself that you put on your food. You…
One Large Company That Put Its Owner on the Map
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/11/03Dec20-Emerson-Cary-Underground-Salt-Mine-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He owned a railroad, construction company, ice, and cold storage business, a newspaper, and even a cemetery. But above and…
650 Feet Below Ground
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/11/02Dec20-Emerson-Cary-Underground-Salt-Mine-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today, we say hello to listeners at KWBW in Hutchinson, Kansas. I was recently in their town to visit with…
A Battle With Inevitable Results
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/09/18Sep20-Osawatamie-John-Brown-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The shots at Ft. Sumter in April of 1861 are often considered the first military action of the Civil War. …
A Historic Vote on Slavery
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/09/17Sep20-Osawatamie-John-Brown-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the years just ahead of the Civil War, thousands of people came to Kansas ahead of a critical vote…
Best of 2019: Lucas, Kansas’ Public Restroom
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/12/27Dec19-Best-of-2019-Lucas-Kansas-Restroom.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A public restroom is usually not a thing of beauty. It’s just designed to take care of the need at…
A Woman and Her Gun
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/12/13Dec19-Safari-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Osa Johnson was certainly not an imposing figure, but give her a gun and she could drop some of the…
Home of the Safari Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/12/12Dec19-Safari-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)Many towns have a museum of local history, but why is Chanute, Kansas home to the Safari Museum? It may…
The President Who Claimed Kansas as Home
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/08/15Aug19-Eisenhower-Birthplace.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)This President was born in Texas, but always claimed Kansas as his home…
The Cathedral of the Plains
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/05/03Jun19-Cathedral-of-the-Plains-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When this presidential candidate saw the building, he dubbed it the cathedral of the plains. That’s the name that still…
