Category: Texas
The Old Government Building with a Story
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/04/16Apr24-Austin-French-Legation-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In Austin, Texas near the state capitol building you’ll find another old government building in a beautiful green space. It…
A Smaller Version of an Embassy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/04/15Apr24-Austin-French-Legation-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many countries establish embassies in other nations and usually those diplomatic sites are in a country’s capital. That is the…
Monument Hill, Texas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/04/12Apr24-Monument-Hill-Texas.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)On a high bluff overlooking the Colorado River in La Grange, Texas you’ll find a monument to men who gave…
Texas German Brewery
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/04/11Apr24-Texas-German-Brewery.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Germany is often known for its breweries and when immigrants sailed to the new world, they often brought that beer…
Winning a National Championship in a Big Way
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/03/18Mar24-Babe-Didrikson-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)While individuals compete in track and field events, there is often a team component to the standings, with points awarded…
An Olympic Qualifier on Another Level
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/03/15Mar24-Babe-Didrikson-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s difficult to know exactly how many medals this athlete might have won at the Olympics. She qualified for several…
Wide Enough Streets for U-Turns
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/03/14Mar24-Fredericksburg-Texas.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today cities don’t need to be laid out so that ox carts can make U-turns. However, that was the plan…
Riding A Horse Into the Hotel Lobby
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/03/13Mar24-Menger-Hotel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine a well-known general riding his horse into the lobby of a hotel…and it was met with applause. Another military…
Racing to Get a Hotel Room
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/03/12Mar24-Menger-Hotel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today just about every hotel room in America has a private bathroom included. Turn back the clock over a century…
A Look Back at the Kennedy Assassination
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/22Sep23-Eugene-Boone-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the tragic events that unfolded in Dallas when President Kennedy was assassinated, we may forget that a police officer…
A Personal Connection to Jack Ruby
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/21Sep23-Eugene-Boone-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In November of 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald shot President Kennedy. Just two days later, Jack Ruby shot Oswald. Deputy Eugene…
Searching the Texas School Book Depository
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/20Sep23-Eugene-Boone-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the early afternoon of November 22nd, 1963, Deputy Eugene Boone was searching the 6th floor of the Texas School…
Watching the Presidential Motorcade
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/19Sep23-Eugene-Boone-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Deputy Eugene Boone was watching President Kennedy’s motorcade pass Main Street on November 22, 1963. But just moments after the…
The First Televised State Funeral
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/01/01Feb23-Sam-Rayburn-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In November of 1961, this small town in north Texas was overwhelmed with people coming to pay their respects to…
It’s Better to be the Speaker than President
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/01/31Jan23-Sam-Rayburn-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many governors, senators and representatives may aspire to one day become president of the United States. However, this man believed…
Sam Rayburn
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/01/30Jan23-Sam-Rayburn-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In Bonham, Texas you can find the boyhood home of Sam Rayburn. The small town is also host to the…
Short Existence, Mighty Impact
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/01/23Jan23-Hellcats-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many military museums tell the story of an entire war, or perhaps the history of a fort or military outpost. …
The Hell Cats
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/01/20Jan23-Hellcats-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They were often known as the Hell Cats. Others knew them by the name, “Suicide Squad” for their hard fought…
The Marfa Lights
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/10/21Oct22-Marfa-Texas-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There’s something odd taking place in the countryside east of Marfa, Texas. It’s been going on for over a century…
Presidio County, Texas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/10/20Oct22-Marfa-Texas-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The courthouse in Presidio County, Texas is a picturesque and historic place to visit. It’s small dome affords visitors views…