Category: Minnesota
More on Lake Bemidji
Wednesday’s show featured information on the statue of Paul Bunyan and Babe, his trusty blue ox sidekick, on the shores of Lake Bemidji. That’s a…
Paul & Babe on the Shores of Lake Bemidji
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/02Aug13-Paul-Bunyan-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)On the shores of Lake Bemidji stand Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox. The pair have been immortalized in…
Paul Bunyan & Babe the Blue Ox
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/01Aug13-Paul-Bunyan-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Just about all of us have heard of him and most of us would say he’s just a make believe…
A Company With a Different Beginning
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/19Apr13-3M-Two-Harbors-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Roll back the clock to the late 1800s and the people of Two Harbor, Minnesota would tell you this company…
A New Variety of Diet
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/18Apr13-3M-Two-Harbors-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)There are many people that tout a variety of diet plans. We may have a new idea to add to…
The Need for More Lighthouses
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/17Apr13-3M-Two-Harbors-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)It’s been over a century since one major storm hit the shores of western Lake Superior. However the twenty plus…
Aboard the William Irvin
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/16Apr13-William-Irving-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Life aboard a ship on the Great Lakes can be difficult. The work is hard and the weather can be…
The Importance of Shipped Goods on the Great Lakes
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/15Apr13-William-Irving-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Giant lake freighters are constantly passing through the port here in Duluth, Minnesota. However, one ship is moored here permanently…a…
Two Women Artists
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/10Apr13-Prairie-Pioneers.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)There’s a good chance you may have never heard of these two women artists. Yet the work they created and…
Sailing a Viking Ship Across the Atlantic
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/09Apr13-Viking-Ship-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)On the surface it seemed to be a ludicrous project. A man with no experience building boats, was going to…
Cruising a Different Way
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/08Apr13-Viking-Ship-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Robert Asp had a dream to visit Norway someday. It was, after all, the land where his family traced their…
Scenic Route – A Modern-Day Viking Ship
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/ScenicRoute-002.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 5:48 — 3.9MB)How does a junior high guidance counselor come to be the builder and owner of a full-size Viking ship? And…
Where the Mississippi Flows North
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/27Mar13-Lake-Itasca-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)The Mississippi River flows over 2500 miles, southward through the Midwestern U.S. That is, unless you are here, where the…
The Headwaters of the Mississippi River
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/26Mar13-Lake-Itasca-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)The Mississippi River empties into the Gulf of Mexico just south of New Orleans, Louisiana. But where does the mighty…
The Runestone
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/Runestone-KXRA-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)The ancient writing on this stone shows that Europeans had traveled to the interior of North America over a century…
A Rock in a Farmer’s Field
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/Runestone-KXRA-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Many a farmer has found a rock in his field, but the rock Olaf Ohman found was different than anything…
