Category: Missouri
The Ralph Foster Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/12Jan16-Ralph-Foster-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)What is the most famous truck in the nation? There are a variety of answers, but no doubt this old…
A Museum with a Wealth of Exhibits
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/11Jan16-Ralph-Foster-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)At one point, this museum might have begun to look a bit like your grandmother’s attic – full of just…
The Story of Basketball’s “Glory Road”
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/07Jan16-Jerry-Armstrong-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The movie “Glory Road” shares the story of five black basketball players from Texas Western who beat an all-white Kentucky…
Prejudices on the Basketball Court
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/06Jan16-Jerry-Armstrong-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Jerry Armstrong was a farm kid from Eagleville, Missouri. He excelled at basketball and took a chance to play Division…
Coach Don Haskins and Herman Karr
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/05Jan16-Jerry-Armstrong-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Depending on your age, you either lived through or have heard about the racial tensions of the 1960s. While prejudices…
Basketball Hall of Famer Jerry Armstrong
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/04Jan16-Jerry-Armstrong-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When a small town school produces a big-time athlete, the entire community might rally around them. Jerry was one such…
A Second Chance At Life
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/11Dec15-Tom-Brand-5.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)To say Tom Brand got a second chance at life is to infer that he hadn’t been making the most…
The Power of Prayer
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/10Dec15-Tom-Brand-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Do you believe in the power of prayer? If not, today’s feature may just make you a believer. Tom Brand…
Surviving the Odds
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/09Dec15-Tom-Brand-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Statistics show that if you need CPR, even in a hospital setting, your chances of survival are under ten percent. …
Angels Watching Over Us
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/08Dec15-Tom-Brand-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you are a person of faith, you may believe there are angels watching over us. Today’s story certainly supports…
Facing A Heart Attack
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/07Dec15-Tom-Brand-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we begin a series with Tom Brand. Many of you may know Tom as a long-time broadcaster and today’s…
Scenic Route – Tom Brand
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/Scenic-Route-Tom-Brand.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 45:29 — 31.2MB)American Countryside Producer and Editor Tom Brand faced multiple heart attacks in the summer of 2013 that not only affected…
A Variety Show In The Basement of City Hall
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/10/06Nov15-Baldknobbers-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It had a inauspicious beginning. A variety show held in the basement of city hall that attracted a couple dozen…
The Baldknobbers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/10/05Nov15-Baldknobbers-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They were called the Baldknobbers – a group of vigilantes that roamed the Ozarks dispensing justice as they saw fit. …
One of the Biggest Stars in Country Music
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/10/04Nov15-Todd-Bradshaw-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)Today we visit with one of the biggest stars in country music – Kenny Chesney. But it’s a story with…
Making It Big Someday
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/10/03Nov15-Todd-Bradshaw-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Perhaps some of us have an dreams of making it big someday on stage. That was the case for Todd,…
Campaigning Against Another Player
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/01Jul15-Carl-Mays-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Ty Cobb was a great baseball player, but he was also known as a guy who would bend and break…
A Baseball Career Not Recognized By Cooperstown
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/30Jun15-Carl-Mays-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Carl Mays had a career worthy of the baseball hall of fame, however many in his hometown will tell you…
A Gun Without Bullets
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/29Jun15-Carl-Mays-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Some boys grow up hunting animals in the woods. That was the case for Carl Mays, but he didn’t use…
The 1930’s Largest Lake in the World
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/24Jun15-Lake-of-the-Ozarks-2015.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In the 1930s it became the largest lake in the world…and interestingly, that record setter was nestled in the undeveloped…
