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Giant Sycamore Stump
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/18Oct21-Kokomo-Sycamore-Stump.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many folks enjoy trees in their yard that provide shade on a summer day and beauty with the fall colors. …
Kokomo Opalescent Glass
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/15Oct21-Kokomo-Glass-Company-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When your product is estimated to be found in seventy-five percent of the world’s churches, you know your company has…
The Amazing Torches of Kokomo
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/14Oct21-Kokomo-Glass-Company-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Dig into the photo archives around Kokomo, Indiana and you’re bound to find plenty of pictures, commonplace in the 1880s,…
What is It? How do you Spell it?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/13Oct21-Kokomo-Glass-Company-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Jeff Shaw owns a company in which he has to answer two questions quite often – What is it and…
You Can Lead a Horse to Water But He Won’t Drink Oil
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/12Oct21-Bartlesville-Oil-Well-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)George Keeler noticed his horses wouldn’t drink from this spot on the Caney River. The location is today an important…
Attracting More Than a Railroad
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/11Oct21-Bartlesville-Oil-Well-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)William Johnstone and George Keeler were looking for a way to attract the railroad to their new town. Who knew…
A Foreign Attack on the U.S. Mainland
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/08Oct21-Balloon-Bombs-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was a foreign attack on the U.S. mainland…yet few have heard the story of Japan’s balloon bombs and the…
Japanese Bombs on the U.S. Mainland
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/07Oct21-Balloon-Bombs-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Americans know of the bombs Japan dropped at Pearl Harbor…yet few have heard the story of the 9000 that were…
25 Years of Traveling the Countryside
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/06Oct21-American-Countryside-25th-Anniversary.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)On October 6th, 1996 I was away from home but called my mom early on a Saturday morning to put…
The Artichoke Lady
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/05Oct21-Artichoke-Lady-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some people turn up their nose at brussels sprouts. Where do artichokes fare in comparison? We head to a valley…
A Marketing Challenge for a Vegetable
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/04Oct21-Artichoke-Lady-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes it’s hard to get kids to eat their vegetables. Now imagine the vegetable looks like a hand grenade and…
The Arlington Ladies
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/01Oct21-Arlington-Ladies.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)On Memorial Day we remember our loved ones, but these ladies recognize our fallen soldiers this weekend and every day…
A Mission to Turn a Bad Day Into a Good Day
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/30Sep21-Daves-Metal-Detecting-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Remember the phrase “finders keepers, losers weepers?” That definitely does not fit this man. When you hear his story, you may come…
Reuniting Lost Items
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/29Sep21-Daves-Metal-Detecting-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Have you ever had to go to a lost and found department? These days, those departments are often found online…
Finding a Needle in the Haystack
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/28Sep21-Daves-Metal-Detecting-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine having a job that is like trying to find the needle in the proverbial haystack. Now imagine that is…
More Than An Ice Cream Cone
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/27Sep21-Youngs-Dairy-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When is an ice cream cone more than just ice cream in a cone? It is here. It’s a family…
Young’s Jersey Dairy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/24Sep21-Youngs-Dairy-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)North of Xenia, Ohio you’ll find a dairy farm with quite a history. Not only have they been milking cows…
Hotel of the Hall of Famers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/23Sep21-Otesage-Hotel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Baseball Hall of Fame has an induction ceremony each year and when that event takes place, the baseball greats…
Last of the Mohicans
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/22Sep21-Otesage-Hotel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Perhaps you remember the book and the movie, the Last of the Mohicans. James Fennimore Cooper was the author of…
Pioneer Days of Ten Sleep, Wyoming
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/21Sep21-Wyoming-Homesteader-Hester-Currence.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you are a resident of Wyoming, a four or five hour drive to get somewhere may not seem too…
