Posted in American Countryside Miscellaneous

250,000 New Homes in the Midwest

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/20Aug12-Orphan-Train-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:28 — 1.1MB)In a restored rail depot building in Concordia, Kansas you can find an intriguing story of nearly a quarter million…

Continue Reading... 250,000 New Homes in the Midwest
Posted in American Countryside Miscellaneous

The Alibates Flint Quarry

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/08/17Aug12-Alibates-Flint.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)It’s called Alibates Flint, and this spot in the Texas panhandle is the only place in the world where you…

Continue Reading... The Alibates Flint Quarry
Posted in American Countryside Miscellaneous

On Top of Mount Sunflower

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/16Aug12-Mount-Sunflower-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.7MB)Mt. McKinley.  Mt. Rainier.   Pikes Peak.  They are some of the tallest mountains in the United States.  But this…

Continue Reading... On Top of Mount Sunflower
Posted in American Countryside Miscellaneous

The Highest Point in Kansas

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/15Aug12-Mount-Sunflower-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:28 — 1.7MB)The Harold family has farmed and ranched along the Kansas-Colorado border for over a century.  Their homestead may appear to…

Continue Reading... The Highest Point in Kansas
Posted in American Countryside Miscellaneous

The Kit Carson County Carousel

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/14Aug12-Carson-County-Carousel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:28 — 1.7MB)We appreciate the folks listening on KNAB in Burlington, Colorado who helped us with a story that’s nearly a century…

Continue Reading... The Kit Carson County Carousel
Posted in American Countryside Colorado Miscellaneous

A Bad Purchase?

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/13Aug12-Carson-County-Carousel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:28 — 1.7MB)The general public usually wants its elected officials to be fiscally responsible.  But the purchase the commissioners in Kit Carson…

Continue Reading... A Bad Purchase?
Posted in American Countryside Miscellaneous

The Squirrel Cage Jail

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/10Aug12-Squirrel-Cage-Jail-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.1MB)Prisoners have used many different methods to escape from their cells.  A man in this jail crawled through pipes of…

Continue Reading... The Squirrel Cage Jail
Posted in American Countryside Miscellaneous

Like Hamsters in a Wheel

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/09Aug12-Squirrel-Cage-Jail-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:28 — 1.1MB)If you seem to be busy, but going nowhere in life, you might be said to be a “hamster in…

Continue Reading... Like Hamsters in a Wheel
Posted in American Countryside Miscellaneous

Keeping a Secret for a Decade

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/08/08Aug12-John-Browns-Cave-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)For a decade, this place kept its true purpose a secret.  To do otherwise would jeopardize those who came here….

Continue Reading... Keeping a Secret for a Decade
Posted in American Countryside Miscellaneous

More Than Just a Little Log Cabin

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/07Aug12-John-Browns-Cave-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)This small log cabin has been in Nebraska City for over 150 years.  It appears to be much like other…

Continue Reading... More Than Just a Little Log Cabin
Posted in American Countryside Miscellaneous

Up, Up in the Air with My Beautiful Balloon

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/06Aug12-Hot-Air-Balloon-Pilot.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Imagine a competition where you pilot a hot air balloon equipped with survival gear over snow-capped mountains in the dead…

Continue Reading... Up, Up in the Air with My Beautiful Balloon
Posted in American Countryside Miscellaneous

Bucks County, Pennsylvania

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/03Aug12-Bucks-County-Pennsylvania.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 1.4MB)There are many places in the United States that were once thriving agricultural areas and are now under pressure from…

Continue Reading... Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Posted in American Countryside Miscellaneous

The World Record Rocking Chair

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/02Aug12-Fanning-Outpost-Rocking-Chair.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 1.4MB)Some people have a chair lift to assist them.  But this chair requires a lift just to sit in it….

Continue Reading... The World Record Rocking Chair
Posted in American Countryside Miscellaneous

Feeding Trees to Cattle

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/01Aug12-Gene-Tunks-Drought.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Imagine a drought so severe that you began to cut down trees just so the cattle could eat the leaves….

Continue Reading... Feeding Trees to Cattle
Posted in American Countryside Miscellaneous

Today’s Drought Versus the 1930s

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/31Jul12-Uncle-Bill-Drought.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 1.4MB)Drought.  It causes crops to shrivel, prices to spike and farmers to worry about making ends meet.  There is no…

Continue Reading... Today’s Drought Versus the 1930s
Posted in American Countryside Miscellaneous

An Iowa Barber Strikes Gold

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/07/30Jul12-Frank-Phillips-Oil.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 1.4MB)On the surface it seemed like an unlikely scenario for success. A barber from Iowa striking oil and building one…

Continue Reading... An Iowa Barber Strikes Gold
Posted in American Countryside Miscellaneous

The Artiston Cafe

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/27Jul12-Ariston-Cafe-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)If you are looking to get engaged, might we suggest booth number six at the Ariston Café in Litchfield, Illinois….

Continue Reading... The Artiston Cafe
Posted in American Countryside Miscellaneous

From Greece to America

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/07/26Jul12-Ariston-Cafe-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Nick Adam’s father immigrated to the United States from Greece when he was only 15 years old.  He came by…

Continue Reading... From Greece to America
Posted in American Countryside Miscellaneous

The McGloflin House

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/07/25Jul12-McGloflin-House.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today it is just a historic site overlooking the Oregon’s Wilamette River…yet the man who lived here is regarded to…

Continue Reading... The McGloflin House
Posted in American Countryside Miscellaneous

A Unique Crop that Grows Underground

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/07/24Jul12-Carlyle-Illinois-Horseradish.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we say hello to our listeners on WXCO in Carlyle, Illinois.  You’ll see plenty of corn and soybean fields…

Continue Reading... A Unique Crop that Grows Underground