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Where the Words Were Delivered
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/02/2026-0210-Churchill-Fulton-Memorial-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most of us after heard of the phrase, “the iron curtain” to describe the communist countries of eastern Europe during…
Predicting the State of the World For Decades to Come
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/02/2026-0209-Churchill-Fulton-Memorial-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Just two months after the Allies won the European theatre of World War II, the leader of Great Britain, Winston…
The Root Beer Museum
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0206-Root-Beer-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If there is a museum to Spam, well Reed Andrew thought there should certainly be a museum to this. After…
What Root Is the Root of Root Beer?
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0205-Root-Beer-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A lot of people enjoy root beer. But how did a drink that contains no alcohol wind up with beer…
Angel Fire
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0204-Angel-Fire-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)My in-laws had been telling me about a place called Angel Fire for many years. They make an annual trip…
Doc Westfall’s War Memorial
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0203-Angel-Fire-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When Doc Westfall lost a son to the Vietnam War, the event changed his plans for the future. His new…
Rancher Turned Veterans Memorial
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0202-Angel-Fire-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Westfalls had dreams of a ranch resort where they could retire. Then tragedy struck and the plans for the…
The Ezekiel Airship
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0130-Ezekiel-Airship.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Did a man in Texas build an aircraft that flew a full year before the Wright Brothers plane? There are…
The Untouchables
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0129-Eliot-Ness-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They are called the Untouchables. However, you may have not heard their story if not for one year this man…
Fighting Cleveland’s Crime Problem
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0128-Eliot-Ness-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Cleveland was a city dealing with a major crime problem in the 1930s and 40s. The man they brought here…
One Man Determined to Stop Capone
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0127-Eliot-Ness-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the 18th amendment to the US Constitution made alcohol illegal, many began to supply the drink illegally. It was…
Medicine Lodge
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0126-Medicine-Lodge-Kansas.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In south central Kansas you’ll find a place long important to Native Americans – a place where they and later…
The Lady With the Hatchet
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0123-Carry-Nation-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This lady was known to back up her words with her hatchet. And that hatchet is still well known over…
The After-Sermon Lecture
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0122-Carry-Nation-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you attended David Nation’s church in Medicine Lodge, Kansas, many would say the real sermon began when David’s wife…
Driving the Cannonball Run
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0121-Cannonball-Run-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many of us love road trips. Probably nothing we’ve experienced compares to what Jeff and Alexis Popick recently did. They…
A Father and Daughter Trip
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0120-Cannonball-Run-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many people decide to make the trip of a lifetime and drive their car from one coast to another. Now…
That Crazy Cross Country Race
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0119-Cannonball-Run-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the early 1980s the movie “Cannonball Run” hit movie theatres. Although the comedy is several decades old, many have…
MLK, Jr. Civil Rights Museum
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0116-MLK-Civil-Rights-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In downtown Memphis you’ll find part of a restored motel. It’s a place that would probably have been long forgotten…
On His Way to Address the Crowds
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0115-MLK-Civil-Rights-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was April of 1968 and the garbage in Memphis was beginning to pile up and stink. A strike was…
Norman Rockwell
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0114-Norman-Rockwell-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many of us have seen many paintings by the artist Norman Rockwell. In fact, his work is still reproduced in…
