Category: Michigan
Flying…With a Little Bravery Mixed In
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/07/08Aug17-Ishpeming-Ski-Jump-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)For centuries humans have desired to zoom into the air like birds. But how do you get that feeling when…
Kids Flying Above the Ground
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/07/07Aug17-Ishpeming-Ski-Jump-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many people say that kids need to be more active. And, if you want a kid to excel in sports…
A Different Purpose for the Doghouse
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/07/04Aug17-Ishpeming-Ski-Jump-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Kids can sometimes come up with fantastic and perhaps, unwise stunts to pass their time around home. Such was the…
A Perfect Place for Snow Sports
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/07/03Aug17-Ishpeming-Ski-Jump-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Depending on where you live in the nation, certain sports may be more popular than others. When you live in…
Moving a Fort to a Better Location
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/07/02Aug17-Mackinaw-Fort-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Forts are often built to defend a military position. But when your fort is not in the best location for…
An Innocent Game of Lacrosse
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/07/01Aug17-Mackinaw-Fort-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It seemed like an innocent game of lacrosse. A group of men invited locals to come watch what was billed…
A Strategic Fort Location
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/07/31Jul17-Mackinaw-Fort-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today it is a well-known summer vacation spot. Turn back the clock about three centuries and people would have known…
Where Santa Gets His Decorations
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/20Dec16-Bronners-Christmas-Wonderland.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)If Santa Claus needed a place to buy all of his decorations, this would be it. It’s big business in…
A Shipwreck That Still Influences Today
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/11Nov15-Edmund-Fitzgerald-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Each November 10th, the bell here in Whitefish Point will chime 29 times for the crew that died aboard the…
The Mystery of the Edmund Fitzgerald
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/10Nov15-Edmund-Fitzgerald-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It’s a mystery that is now 40 years old…a mystery that lives on through a song that tells the story…
A Dangerous Place for Ships
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/09Nov15-Edmund-Fitzgerald-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:05 — 2.1MB)If you come here to the shores of Lake Superior in the summer, you are likely to find lovely waters…
The Soo
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/16Oct15-Soo-Locks-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Locals often simply call it “The Soo.” Ships know the place for the locks that help move them from one…
Watching the Ships Pass By
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/15Oct15-Soo-Locks-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)The ships here are moving so slowly, it’s sometime difficult to tell if they are in fact moving at all. …
Overcoming Big Obstacles
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/14Oct15-Soo-Locks-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Before highways crisscrossed this nation, rivers often provided the best road to move cargo and passengers. But some of those…
The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/13Aug15-Great-Lakes-Shipwreck-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Perhaps it’s fitting that you have to go a bit out of the way to find the Great Lakes Shipwreck…
A Fear on Lake Superior
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/12Aug15-Great-Lakes-Shipwreck-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Some sailors and airman have long feared the Bermuda Triangle for the mysterious fate of some who have passed there. …
Whitefish Point
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/11Aug15-Great-Lakes-Shipwreck-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)On a road map, it’s simply listed as “Whitefish Point.” That place name has little significance to most, but for…
Going to Hell
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/07/18Jul14-Hell-Michigan.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We go to great lengths to gather the stories you here on this program…and this time we literally went to…
The Inventor of the First Automobile
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/07/17Jul14-Elwood-Haynes.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Who invented the first automobile? You might be surprised that it wasn’t Henry Ford…but this man from Kokomo, Indiana…
A Store For the Holidays
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/02Dec13-Holiday-Christmas-Store.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If Santa Claus needed a place to buy all of his decorations, this would be it. This big business in…
