Category: Missouri
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…
Possibly the Only Expert in the World
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/23Jun15-Hair-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)If you have a valuable heirloom you’d like to sell, you might see an expert appraiser to assess its value….
Curator of A Unique Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/22Jun15-Hair-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)You might not picture our founding fathers wearing broaches or other jewelry. However, this lady says it’s just one of…
An Odd Method of Tracking A Family History
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/19Jun15-Hair-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Today many people like to trace their family tree. Before the age of photos and computerized records, there was another…
From the Field to the Press Box
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/29May15-Rex-Hudler-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)His major league career spanned over 20 seasons and even included a stint in Japan. He’s still a part of…
When Mom Negotiates Your Major League Contract
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/28May15-Rex-Hudler-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Today’s sports stars often have high powered agents who negotiate their contracts. However, this first round draft pick simply turned…
Dreams of Playing Professional Sports
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/27May15-Rex-Hudler-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Many young boys have dreams of playing pro sports. This man had many sports from which to choose which left…
A Drug Store Soda Fountain Reopens
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/15May15-Ava-Drug-Store-2015-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)When this drug store soda fountain reopened, they began charging 1950s prices. What’s unusual is they’re still using prices from…
Back from the Past
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/14May15-Ava-Drug-Store-2015-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Once upon a time, just about every town had at least one drug store soda fountain. Today we head to…
A Quick-Draw Shootout
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/06May15-Wild-Bill-Hickok-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)John Sellers says the key to winning an old-west shootout was not quickness, but accuracy. And when you take into…
Gambling Over a Pocketwatch
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/05May15-Wild-Bill-Hickok-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In a movie “western” you might see two gunslingers fire their pistols at each other in the town square. That’s…
Deadly Tensions
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/04May15-Wild-Bill-Hickok-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the Civil War ended, there were still many unsettled scores of course. Towns along the border with North and…
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/04/17Apr15-Nicholas-Beazley-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)People often come to the new community center in Marshall, Missouri for regional meetings on a variety of topics. But…
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/04/16Apr15-Nicholas-Beazley-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)In the 1920, this was the largest commercial pilots school in the world. So large, other nation’s such as Chine…
What Started As 75 Box Cars Led to This…
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/04/15Apr15-Nicholas-Beazley-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)When Russell Nicholas came home from World War I, he wanted to begin his own business. He ended up purchasing…
From Board Room to the Classroom
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/03/26Mar15-Bloch-Brothers-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.8MB) What happens when the CEO of a major corporation decides he wants to begin teaching middle school math? It’s…
H&R Block Career Change
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/03/25Mar15-Bloch-Brothers-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.8MB) Tom Bloch’s father and uncle founded H&R Block, a company that Tom eventually led as CEO. But there was…
H&R Block
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/03/24Mar15-Bloch-Brothers-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.8MB) There are some folks that think they can run your business better than you can. In this case, the…
The Bloch Brothers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/03/23Mar15-Bloch-Brothers-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.8MB) Very few people like to figure their taxes and even fewer like to pay them. But this pair of…
Tomahawk Throwing
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/02Mar15-Tomahawk-Maker-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Perhaps you’ve seen a circus side show or an old Western where people threw tomahawks for sport. It’s a competition…
