http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/28May12-Wounded-Warrior-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)On Memorial Day we remember our friends and family who have passed.  It is a day of tribute and remembrance…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/25May12-Wounded-Warrior-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Soldiers may encounter all kinds of obstacles on the battlefield. What Mary did not realize was the great challenges they…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/24May12-William-Paca.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)As the colonies approached the year 1776, old social ties were sometimes stretched thin.  But in the capitol of Maryland,…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/23May12-Boonville-County-Jail-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Occasionally there are nationally known celebrities that break the law and must serve some jail time.  Those cases, of course,…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/22May12-Boonville-County-Jail-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)The historic jail in Boonville, Missouri was built to house those convicted of crimes in the county.  However, it also…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/21May12-Camp-Algona-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)It’s hard to imagine being held as a prisoner of war and then, after the war, immigrating to the country…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/18May12-Camp-Algona-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Over the years, you’ve heard us feature some towns in the heartland of America that served as POW camps during…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/17May12-Globetrotter-Lodge.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Many people would love to live in the Austrian Alps.  This couple decided the wide open spaces of eastern Arizona…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/16May-12-KMA-History-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Imagine hosting a breakfast so large that you needed to buy pancake flour by the boxcar.  That’s exactly what happened…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/15May12-KMA-History-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Today we say hello to our friends in Southwest Iowa.  Folks there have been tuning into their radios for decades…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/08/Kansas-Cosmosphere-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Today we’re back in Hutchinson, KS and say hello to our listeners on KWBW. I can attest to what folks…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/11May12-Holbrook-Arizona-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Sometimes movies do more than just bring in dollars at the box office.  They occasionally have an impact on the…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/10May12-WCAZ-Radio.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.8MB)Today’s program comes from the studios of WCAZ Radio in Carthage, Illinois. It’s a place with a long tradition in…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/09May12-Holbrook-Arizona-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)There are many towns in the western U.S. that had rough and tumble beginnings.  They are places where it was…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/08May12-Junction-City-Opera-House.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)In the 1880s Junction City, Kansas built “The Jewel of the Prairie,” a grand opera house to serve the growing…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/04May12-Fort-Riley-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)There are a lot of important military artifacts in this museum and Dr. Robert Smith can tell you why each is…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/04May12-Hindenburg-2012.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)It was transatlantic service at its finest.  An airship almost three football fields long cruising at the then blazing speed…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/03May12-Fort-Riley-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Today we say hello to our listeners on KJCK in Junction City, KS.  Listeners there know the long-standing affiliation this…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/30Apr12-Spruce-Goose-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)This plane made but one flight – a trip that lasted about one mile just a few yards off of…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/04/27Apr12-Spruce-Goose-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)It was a behemoth of a plane…the H-4 Hercules…an aircraft with the largest wingspan of any every built.  But how…