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Posted in American Countryside Wyoming

Tracing a Store to Its Roots

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/16Oct25-JC-Penney-Mother-Store-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you want to make it big in retailing clothes and general merchandise, you might not pick southwestern Wyoming as…

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Posted in American Countryside Georgia

Georgia’s Second Oldest City

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/15Oct25-Fort-King-George-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many people travel to Savannah, Georgia, the state’s oldest city, to enjoy its tree lined streets and colonial history.  A…

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Posted in American Countryside Georgia

Getting Free From a Deadly Place

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/14Oct25-Fort-King-George-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There was no doubt the men assigned to this fort did not like it here.  But exactly how far would…

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Posted in American Countryside Georgia

Fort King George

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/13Oct25-Fort-King-George-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In southeast Georgia you’ll find an outpost built to protect the British interests from the Spanish and the French.  While…

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Posted in American Countryside Wyoming

The Joss House

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/10Oct25-Joss-House.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It took a large workforce from points around the globe to lay the rails that connected the nation.  In Evanston,…

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Posted in American Countryside Minnesota

Hockeytown USA

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/09Oct25-Hockeytown-USA.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s known as “Hockeytown USA.”  This small but mighty town has produced many top athletes and has competed at the…

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Posted in American Countryside Minnesota

Minnesota’s Northwest Angle

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/08Oct25-Minnesotas-Northwest-Angle.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The northernmost point in the lower 48 states was created when the maps of the era weren’t accurate in determining…

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Posted in American Countryside Minnesota

Living Well Past 100 Years Old

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/07Oct25-Warroad-Minnesota-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)These days it’s not that uncommon to find people who live to be 100 years old or more.  In this…

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Posted in American Countryside Minnesota

Making the Trip to Warroad

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/06Oct25-Warroad-Minnesota-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In northern Minnesota you’ll find a town with an interesting name – Warroad.  So was this truly a road to…

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Posted in American Countryside Minnesota

Bronco Nagurski

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/03Oct25-Bronco-Nagurski-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You know you probably had a special football career when your old high school adopted your name as its mascot. …

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Posted in American Countryside Minnesota

A Museum Honoring a Hometown Hero

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/02Oct25-Bronco-Nagurski-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He was in the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s first class and his nine seasons with the Chicago Bears saw…

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Posted in American Countryside Minnesota

Voyageurs Gold Mining

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/01Oct25-Voyageurs-Gold-Mining.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When you think of gold mining towns in the U.S., you probably don’t think of this area of the country. …

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Posted in American Countryside Minnesota

No Falls in International Falls, Minnesota

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/30Sep25-International-Falls-MN-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you go to International Falls, Minnesota looking for a picturesque waterfall, you’ll be disappointed.  This is the story of…

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The Nation’s Northern Border

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/29Sep25-International-Falls-MN-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When we think of rivers that form the border of the Unites States, we often think of the Rio Grande…

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Posted in American Countryside Pennsylvania

The First Friday Night Lights

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/26Sep25-First-Night-Football-Game-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Friday nights in the fall are a time when many high schools play football games.  And of course, today many…

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Posted in American Countryside Pennsylvania

The Lighted Evolution of College Football

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/25Sep25-First-Night-Football-Game-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the 1890s the game of football was just beginning on some college campuses.  That was the case in Mansfield,…

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Posted in American Countryside Mississippi

The Legacy of Emmett Till

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/24Sep25-Emmett-Till-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In Sumner, Mississippi you’ll find an old courthouse was a restored second floor courtroom.  Today there are no trials, just…

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Posted in American Countryside Mississippi

A Watershed Moment in the Struggle for Civil Rights

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/23Sep25-Emmett-Till-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was supposed to be a summer trip for one young man from Chicago to visit his extended family.  But…

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Posted in American Countryside Texas

Banding Together for a Purpose

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/22Sep25-Hemphill-Texas-NASA-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It some of the most difficult times, people often forget what separates them and band together to help those in…

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Posted in American Countryside Texas

The Event that Changed Hemphill, Texas Forever

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/19Sep25-Hemphill-Texas-NASA-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was February 1st, 2003.  Residents of Hemphill, Texas heard what sounded like a giant explosion on an otherwise peaceful…

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