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Enticing People to Take a Ride
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/11Oct24-Cheyenne-Frontier-Days-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The railroad was looking for ways to entice people to ride the rails for one day excursions to see unique…
Hatch Show Prints
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/10Oct24-Hatch-Show-Print-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Inside the Country Music Hall of Fame you’ll find a shop with roots that go all the way back to…
What Nashville Was Originally Known For
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/09Oct24-Hatch-Show-Print-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we think of Nashville as a city for country music. Back in the late 1800s, there was music here,…
Developing a Silver Fox
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/18Oct24-Fromm-Brothers-Fus-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Fromm Brothers might be said to have been as “sly as a fox.” That’s because their business plan led…
Matchstick Marvels
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/08Oct24-Matchstick-Marvels-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)I had long wanted to go see what so many people had told me about. A small gallery of sorts…
A Unique Hobby
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/07Oct24-Matchstick-Marvels-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A lot of folks have hobbies. Most of those pastimes are purely for one’s own enjoyment, but occasionally, some of…
The Lewes, Delaware Sideshow
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/09/04Oct24-Lewes-Sideshow.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many a circus has it’s main acts and then has a sideshow to entice people to pay to see unusual…
A Great Treasure Hunt
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/09/03Oct24-Delawares-Sunken-Treasure-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There was a great treasure hunt taking place off the shore of Lewes, Delaware. The real treasure though was perhaps…
Delaware’s Sunken Treasure
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/09/02Oct24-Delawares-Sunken-Treasure-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When a British ship sank off the coast of Delaware in the late 1700s, some of the crew was lost…
The First Town in the First State
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/09/01Oct24-First-Town-in-the-First-State.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s referred to as the first town in the country’s first state…that first state being the first one to ratify…
A Homecoming Dance Like None Other
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/09/30Sep24-Cadillac-Michigan-KISS-Football-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There perhaps has never been a homecoming dance like the 1975 Cadillac, Michigan version. The students and the entire town…
Music Ahead of the Football Game
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/09/27Sep24-Cadillac-Michigan-KISS-Football-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many high school sports teams warm up to specific music and that was the case for the Cadillac, Michigan football…
The Success of James Banning
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/09/26Sep24-James-Banning-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today there are many flights each day that connect the two coasts of this nation. In the early years of…
Early Options for Aviation
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/09/25Sep24-James-Banning-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today is a person want to learn to fly a plane, there are many options of places you can go…
The Story of Jack Trice Stadium
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/09/24Sep24-Iowa-State-Jack-Trice-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)I have long known that the Iowa State Cyclones football team plays at Jack Trice stadium. Those not from nearby…
The Impact of Events
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/09/23Sep24-Iowa-State-Jack-Trice-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1923 what is today Iowa State University played a football game at the University of Minnesota. In part, due…
A Place Called El Cuartelejo
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/09/20Sep24-Scott-City-Pueblo-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Near Kansas’ border with Colorado you can find a place called El Cuartelejo. It’s the ruins of an ancient home…
A Dwelling That Doesn’t Belong in Kansas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/09/19Sep24-Scott-City-Pueblo-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In western Kansas you can find the foundations for an old Native American settlement. Perhaps that doesn’t seem too out…
One of the Natural Wonders of Kansas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/09/18Sep24-Monument-Rocks.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s one of the natural wonders of Kansas. A place of white spires rising from the prairie plains that have…
Earthquake Lake
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/09/17Sep24-Earthquake-Lake.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We may think of big earthquakes in the U.S. being an event that normally occurs on the west coast. In…
