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Moving to the Gold Standard
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0501-Fort-Knox-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)During the depths of the US Depression in the 1930s, the federal government took several steps to spur the economy. …
Inside Tuckaleeche Caverns
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0430-Tuckaleeche-Caverns-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)For centuries people have recognized the natural beauty along the border of Tennessee and North Carolina, but Steven Fananda’s family…
Results of a Six Year Old’s Wandering
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0429-Tuckaleeche-Caverns-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Kids may go exploring when they have nothing better to do…and sometimes those adventures can lead to trouble. But for…
General Patton’s Secret Code
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0428-Boundry-Oak-Distilling-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes people will use secret codes to keep vital information from slipping into the wrong hands. General Patton used such…
History and Distilling
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0427-Boundry-Oak-Distilling-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the U.S. adopted prohibition in 1920, most alcohol production ceased, but when production resumed in the 1930s, it seems…
A Large Tree To Mark a Property Boundry
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0424-Boundry-Oak-Distilling-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You can still find some old deeds that use a large tree to mark a property boundary. Such was the…
An American Hero Most People Don’t Know
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0423-Thaddeus-Kosciuszko-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Thomas Jefferson called this man, “As pure a son of liberty as I have ever known.” So who was the…
A Memorial To a Man Who Helped Form a Nation
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0422-Thaddeus-Kosciuszko-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Near the Philadelphia sites that Americans recognize as the birthplace of the country, there is a small memorial to a…
The Wheat King
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0421-The-Wheat-King.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He was known as the Wheat King, a title bestowed on a farmer who built an empire growing the crop…
Willows, California
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0420-Willows-California.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The name of this place tells you what the early settlers found here at the joining of two creeks. The…
A Struggle Engulfing Two States
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0417-Hatfield-McCoys-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In a museum in Pikeville, Kentucky you’ll find a peace treaty between the states of Kentucky and West Virginia. It…
The Hatfields and the McCoys
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0416-Hatfield-McCoys-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the end of the Civil War occurred in 1865, some of the fighting in eastern Kentucky was just getting…
Difficult Travel in the Civil War
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0415-Hatfield-McCoys-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The terrain of eastern Kentucky makes travel a bit of an adventure yet today. Roads and highways snake between the…
The Lost Nation Christmas Tree Tradition
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/03/2026-0414-Lost-Nation-Christmas-Tree.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many towns and cities put up Christmas decorations during the holiday season. In this small town they put up a…
Lost Nation
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/03/2026-0413-Lost-Nation-Iowa.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In east central Iowa you’ll find the small town of Lost Nation, Iowa. Interestingly, the story of how it was…
The Real-Life Aunt Jemima
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/03/2026-0410-Aunt-Jemima-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 2020 the use of Aunt Jemima as a brand name was discontinued due to racial stereotypes. However, the story…
The Story of Nancy Green
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/03/2026-0409-Aunt-Jemima-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the 1830s a lady named Nancy Green was born into slavery near Mt. Sterling, Kentucky. Although you may not…
Aledo, Illinois’ Famous Connections
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/03/2026-0408-Aledo-Famous.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Judson Welliver is just one of the famous folks from this small town. If you’ve not heard of Judson, he…
The Rhubarb Capitol of the World
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/03/2026-0407-Aledo-Rhubarb.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you drive into Aledo, Illinois you will notice that it is the world’s capital for this particular item. That…
Composing Music for Walt Disney
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/03/2026-0406-Disney-Composer-Ed-Plumb-.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ve most likely never heard his name, but you’ve likely heard his music. His family tried to dissuade him from…
