Category: Minnesota
The Most Powerful Steam Locomotive in US History
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/03/08Mar22-Lake-Superior-Railroad-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What is the most powerful steam locomotive in U.S. history? We may say the Big Boy and that answer would…
Lake Superior Railroad Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/03/07Mar22-Lake-Superior-Railroad-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many towns and cities have restored their old rail depots. That’s the case in Duluth, Minnesota and the building is…
The Bank with Grizzlies and Beer Bottling Lines
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/01/02Feb22-Faribault-State-Bank-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)I had heard stories about the State Bank of Faribault. Sure you can deposit money there and get loans…but it’s…
The Mighty Faribault
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/01/01Feb22-Faribault-State-Bank-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we welcome our new listeners on the Mighty 920, KDHL in Faribault, Minnesota. Across from the radio station you’ll…
One of Two Vertical Woolen Mills
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/01/13Jan22-Faribault-Woollen-Mill-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are only two vertical woolen mills remaining in the U.S. One has been in this town since the days…
Buying a Century Old Business
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/01/12Jan22-Faribault-Woollen-Mill-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Paul Mooty says if he drove his own car one day back in 2011 down to Faribault, Minnesota, he might…
Using a Horse-Walked Treadmill to Produce Wool Blankets
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/01/11Jan22-Faribault-Woollen-Mill-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine a time when a horse walked a treadmill to help power the machines that produced wool blankets for early…
An Inspiration Along I-35
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/12/22Dec21-Faribault-Christmas-Tree-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Jerry Lageson is very well known for what he does every Christmas. He never set out to be popular or…
Jerry’s Christmas Tree
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/12/21Dec21-Faribault-Christmas-Tree-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)On the surface it would seem Jerry has an easy Christmas lighting situation. He puts lights on just one tree…
History Alive! Lanesboro, MN
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/11/29Nov21-Lanesboro-MN-History-Alive.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Jane loved history and the performing arts and when she found herself in this town of under 1000 people she…
Sleeping in the Feed Mill
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/11/17Nov21-Lanesboro-MN-Stone-Mill-Hotel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most farming towns have a least one feed mill and Lanesboro, Minnesota is no exception. However, one of those feed…
The Tourist Town That Blossomed – A Century Later
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/11/16Nov21-Lanesboro-MN-Stone-Mill-Hotel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In southeastern Minnesota you’ll find a rolling landscape known as the Driftless area, and within that region there’s a town…
Reviving Small Town Theatres
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/07/27Jul21-Fairbault-Paradise-Center-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many small towns lost their old theatres and opera houses over the years. It some cases they were torn down,…
Paradise Center – Faribault
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/07/26Jul21-Fairbault-Paradise-Center-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A theatre with a Moroccan-style courtyard may seem out of place in southern Minnesota, but this town has not only…
The Bishop who Persuaded Lincoln
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/05Apr21-Fairbault-Minnesota-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The situation was bad, for all involved. But what was about to take place in Minnesota was an injustice to…
A New Bishop For a New State
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/02Apr21-Fairbault-Minnesota-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Henry Whipple perhaps had no plans to move west as a young man. But when he married, his wife encouraged…
Where the Straight Cannon Rivers Unite
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/01Apr21-Fairbault-Minnesota-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today the meeting of the Straight and Cannon Rivers is probably not as important as it was 200 years ago,…
The Founder of Faribault
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/31Mar21-Fairbault-Minnesota-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He was born on the frontier, and the frontier life is perhaps all he ever knew. So it should be…
Names Carved in Stone
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/01/22Jan21-Alexandria-MN-Veterans-Memorial.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There is something about seeing someone’s name in stone. That may be on a grave side marker, or in this…
Finding a Place on the Lake
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/01/21Jan21-Alexandria-MN-Legacy-of-Lakes-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A lot of people enjoy heading to the lake. In fact, some like it so much, they buy land or…
