Category: Minnesota
The Small But Mighty Popcorn Stand
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/07/05Aug22-Granite-Falls-Popcorn-Stand-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)1919 was an important year in Granite Falls, Minnesota. Amidst the hubbub of that year, people at the time wouldn’t…
A Unique Business Brining Big Dollars to Local Causes
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/07/04Aug22-Granite-Falls-Popcorn-Stand-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many organizations work to raise money for local causes. That is the case for the Kiwanis Club in Granite Falls,…
A Business Born in 1919
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/07/03Aug22-Granite-Falls-Popcorn-Stand-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The folks here can tell you the exact date two brothers started, what to them, must have seemed to simply…
The Disneyland of Diving
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/16Jun22-Duluth-Aquarium-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may have seen folks on tv diving to explore old shipwrecks. Most of the time we may think of…
Where the Cold Water Meets the Warm
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/15Jun22-Duluth-Aquarium-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Lots of people love to go fishing, and even if you’re one of the folks that doesn’t care much for…
Duluth’s Great Lakes Aquarium
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/14Jun22-Duluth-Aquarium-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)One of the most recognizable structures in Duluth, and in the state of Minnesota for that matter, is the famous…
519 N 3rd Avenue East, Duluth, Minnesota
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/13Jun22-Dylan-Boyhood-Home-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The home at of 519 N 3rd Ave. East in Duluth, Minnesota looks much like the ones surrounding it. In…
Do You Know Robert Zimmerman?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/10Jun22-Dylan-Boyhood-Home-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Robert Zimmerman perhaps sounds like a fairly common name. This young man was born in Duluth, Minnesota, later moving to…
The Farm Themed Nature Center
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/25May22-Le-Seur-Minnesota-Nature-Center.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We may think of a nature center as a place with an interpretive building and a few wooded acres where…
The Mean Green Giant
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/24May22-Mayo-the-Green-Giant-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some people have a green thumb, and it certainly seemed the farmers in southern Minnesota were experts at growing peas. …
Mayo & The Green Giant
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/23May22-Mayo-the-Green-Giant-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In Le Suer, Minnesota you’ll find what appears to be a modest old home sitting on a lot in front…
A Tragedy That Led to An Institution
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/20May22-WW-Mayo-House-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In August of 1883 a tornado hit southeastern Minnesota. It was a devastating event that caused a lot of damage…
A Famous Doctor Whose First Patient Was a Horse
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/19May22-WW-Mayo-House-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)One of this medical doctors first patients when he came to town was a horse. He was glad to treat…
A Frontier Doctor
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/18May22-WW-Mayo-House-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He was a frontier doctor that found himself in the middle of the Dakota War. His work in that war…
A Wisconsin Dairy with History Before the Civil War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/16May22-Brooks-Dairy-Farm-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many farms have a long legacy of working the land. Just outside Waupaca, Wisconsin you can find a dairy that…
Volstead and the Cooperatives
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/03/29Mar22-Volstead-Act-Granite-Falls-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Just about all of us have heard of farm cooperatives and no doubt, many of you listening to this use…
Do You Know Andrew Volstead?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/03/28Mar22-Volstead-Act-Granite-Falls-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you know American history the name Andrew Volstead may ring a bell. This US Representative from small town Minnesota…
Granite Falls Arts
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/03/25Mar22-Grand-Falls-Minnesota-Arts-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Drive into Granite Falls, Minnesota and you’ll soon see that this small town looks a little different than many. You…
Building a Place for Art in Small Town America
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/03/24Mar22-Grand-Falls-Minnesota-Arts-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In small towns in might be easy to say that things like the arts – galleries, music festivals, sculptors and…
Luxury Painted with Turkey Feathers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/03/09Mar22-Lake-Superior-Railroad-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some people will go to great lengths to create something luxurious. But have you ever heard of someone spending an…
