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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…
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…
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. …
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…
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. …
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The World’s Largest Dessert
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/18Sep25-Apple-Festival-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many of us love to have a piece of apple pie and ice cream. In a moment I’ll tell you…
The Liberty Kentucky Apple Festival
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/17Sep25-Apple-Festival-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many small towns across the country have a celebration that honors the things that make that place special. In Liberty,…
Elk County, Pennsylvania
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/16Sep25-Elk-County-Pennsylvania-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you think the state of Pennsylvania mostly looks like Philadelphia and Pittsburg, you should take a trip here. In…
Where Elk Roamed
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/15Sep25-Elk-County-Pennsylvania-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When you think of places were elk roam forests and wilderness areas, you perhaps do not think of this state. …
The Mystery of the Ruby Red Slippers
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/12Sep25-Judy-Garland-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)One of the most visited exhibits at the Smithsonian Institution is the red slippers worn by Dorthy in the Wizard…
Known for One Role
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/11Sep25-Judy-Garland-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes celebrities in showbiz are known by one particular role they played, no matter the entirety of their life’s work. …
Frances Ethel Gumm
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/10Sep25-Judy-Garland-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of Frances Ethel Gumm. You know her by a different name and I’m…
