Category: Wisconsin
Seven Great FREE Places to Visit with the Family this Summer
Here are seven places my family and I have discovered in the American Countryside listening area that are not only fun to visit, but also…
Trying to Hold Harry Houdini
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/Harry-Houdini-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)They threw him in jail cells, put him in straight jackets, handcuffed him underwater, suspended him in the air from…
Harry Houdini
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/Harry-Houdini-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)When you mention the name Harry Houdini, you, of course, recall him for his famous card tricks. Probably not. However,…
Lindberger Cheese
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/09/Lindberger-Cheese-2011.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)It’s a story that radio can not do justice. Not because you need to see it, but because you need…
Taliesin
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/Frank-Lloyd-Wright-Taliesan-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Ask an American who is the most famous architect in their country’s history and this man’s name is probably at…
An Architect’s Inspiration
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/Frank-Lloyd-Wright-Taliesan-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Most people know him as a famous architect. They don’t realize his early years and perhaps the inspiration for his…
A Museum with an Outhouse
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/01/Paper-Discovery-Center-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)This is an intriguing hands-on museum–especially when you consider it has an outhouse standing in the middle of it…..
The Paper Discovery Center
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/01/Paper-Discovery-Center-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Green Bay may be known for the Packers, but the area is also known for its paper mills. You may…
The Hearthstone Mansion
http://www.tombrand.info/audio/AMC/HearthstoneMansion.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Reports say the lights in this home made it seem like night had turned to day. In fact, the lights…
70 Truckloads of Butter a Day
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Grassland-Dairy-Butter-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)We all know Santa’s elves must work year round to meet toy demand at year’s end, but who knew this…
Butter from Wisconsin
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Grassland-Dairy-Butter-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Folks in the heart of dairy country know that this fourth generation business touches the diets of almost every American…..
The Portage at Portage
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Fox-River-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)It is still revered as one of the most difficult canal building projects ever undertaken–a project to tame a rapidly…
Mistaking Wisconsin for China
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/12Nov10-Fox-River-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Wisconsin and China are nearly a half a world from each other on the globe. So, it?s hard to imagine…
A Wisconsin Dairy Farmer and an Alaska Gold Mine
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/11/El-Dorado-Gold-Mine-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.9MB)When Dexter Clark decided that the life of a Wisconsin dairy farmer was not for him, he took up a…
A Circus Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/10/Circus-Museum-2009.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.8MB)It all began with Albert, Otto, Alfred, Charles, and John. Without their last names, those first names might not mean…