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The Mother Store
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/17Oct25-JC-Penney-Mother-Store-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s called the “mother store” because it was the first of many. You can still come here to purchase modern…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
