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Where is the End of Route 66?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/26May22-Santa-Monica-Pier-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1926 Route 66 ended at the corner of 7th and Broadway in downtown Los Angles, California. Today, most people…
The Farm Themed Nature Center
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/25May22-Le-Seur-Minnesota-Nature-Center.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We may think of a nature center as a place with an interpretive building and a few wooded acres where…
The Mean Green Giant
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/24May22-Mayo-the-Green-Giant-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some people have a green thumb, and it certainly seemed the farmers in southern Minnesota were experts at growing peas. …
Mayo & The Green Giant
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/23May22-Mayo-the-Green-Giant-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In Le Suer, Minnesota you’ll find what appears to be a modest old home sitting on a lot in front…
A Tragedy That Led to An Institution
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/20May22-WW-Mayo-House-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In August of 1883 a tornado hit southeastern Minnesota. It was a devastating event that caused a lot of damage…
A Famous Doctor Whose First Patient Was a Horse
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/19May22-WW-Mayo-House-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)One of this medical doctors first patients when he came to town was a horse. He was glad to treat…
A Frontier Doctor
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/18May22-WW-Mayo-House-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He was a frontier doctor that found himself in the middle of the Dakota War. His work in that war…
A Wisconsin Dairy with History Before the Civil War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/16May22-Brooks-Dairy-Farm-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many farms have a long legacy of working the land. Just outside Waupaca, Wisconsin you can find a dairy that…
Coming Home to the Place That Held You Captive
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/13May22-Camp-Algona-Iowa-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s hard to imagine being held as a prisoner of war and then, after the war, immigrating to the country…
Camp Algona Iowa
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/12May22-Camp-Algona-Iowa-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Over the years you’ve heard us feature some towns in the heartland of America that served as POW camps during…
Jubilee Days in Shenandoah, Iowa
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/11May22-KMA-Radio-History.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine hosting a breakfast so large that you needed to buy pancake flour by the boxcar. That’s exactly what happened…
The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/10May22-Chillicothe-Sliced-Bread-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sliced bread was born, but there’s much more to this story, including how the new product was received and where…
The One Thing in Common with Bread
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/09May22-Chillicothe-Sliced-Bread-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Go down a supermarket aisle and you can find lots of different types of bread. White bread, wheat, honey oat,…
Holbrook, Arizona – The Backdrop for Cars
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/06May22-Holbrook-Arizona-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes movies do more than just bring in dollars at the box office. They occasionally have an impact on the…
An Odd Invitation
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/05May22-Holbrook-Arizona-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are many towns in the western U.S. that had rough and tumble beginnings. They are places where it was…
Silver Moon Plaza
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/04May22-Chilicothe-T-Mobile-Hometown-Grant.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)On the north side of the square in Chillicothe, MO you’ll find a small park where some buildings once stood. …
The Horse with a Gas Mask
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/03May22-Fort-Riley-Kansas-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There is a lot of important military artifacts in this museum and Dr. Robert Smith can tell you why each…
Fort Riley, Kansas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/02May22-Fort-Riley-Kansas-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you drive by Junction City, Kansas on Interstate 70 you’ll see the airfield and buildings related to one of…
Flying the Super Guppy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/29Apr22-Pima-Air-and-Space-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine flying a plane called the “Super Guppy.” There are only two in existence and one is here for the…
Step Inside Air Force 1
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/28Apr22-Pima-Air-and-Space-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The President of the United States flies in Air Force One…and to some extent they can customize the ride to…
