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The Tip of the Mitt
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/12/13Dec24-McGulpin-Point-Lighthouse-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many have heard of Plymouth Rock, the famous landing spot of the Pilgrims. But at the northern tip of Michigan,…
The Nevada Northern Railway
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/11/12Dec24-Ely-Nevada-Railway-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Steam locomotives are a thing of the past, but not everywhere. A trip to eastern Nevada will show you a…
The Boom in Eastern Nevada
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/11/11Dec24-Ely-Nevada-Railway-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the early 1900s, this area of eastern Nevada saw a boom that brought men and families from all points…
McDonald’s Non-Golden Arches in Sedona
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/11/10Dec24-Sedona-Arizona-History-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some businesses are known by their iconic logos. For instance, if I refer to the golden arches, you know it’s…
Where Sedona’s Name Comes From
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/11/09Dec24-Sedona-Arizona-History-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many would say Sedona, Arizona is a beautiful place with a beautiful and unique name. But where did that name…
The Origins of Sedona
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/11/06Dec24-Sedona-Arizona-History-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Before Sedona became a draw for tourists, this type of farming drew homesteaders here. In fact, one important museum there…
Merle Hay
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/11/05Dec24-Merle-Hay.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)For many years whenever I drive around the northern edge of Des Moines, on interstates 80 and 35, I have…
The M&M Divide
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/11/04Dec24-MM-Divide-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We’ve all heard of the Continental Divide, but have you heard of the M and M Divide? That high point…
The Lincoln Highway
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/11/03Dec24-MM-Divide-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Before today’s network of interstate highways was built, there were early routes constructed to cross the nation and help the…
Heider Tractor
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/11/02Dec24-Heider-Tractor.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the early 19th century, many companies began to build tractors. A wide variety of designs were used to try…
The Near-End of the NBA Lakers
Today the Los Angeles Lakers are one of the most recognized teams in the NBA. But one night in Carroll, Iowa back in 1960, the…
The First Thanksgiving at Berkley Plantation
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/11/28Nov24-Berkley-Plantation-Thanksgiving.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may have thought Thanksgiving dates back to the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony in today’s state of Massachusetts. But, in…
Handy Skills for Landing in an Iowa Cornfield
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/11/27Nov24-Lakers-Plane-Crash-Carroll-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)During World War II many airplanes made landings on places other that a smooth concrete runway. The planes of the…
A Town Buzzed by a DC-3
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/11/26Nov24-Lakers-Plane-Crash-Carroll-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was a cold, snowy night in 1960. Residents of one Iowa town were mostly asleep when they suddenly began…
Horses & Riders Racing Mail
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/11/25Nov24-Hollenberg-Pony-Express-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The pony express was in operation for just a little over a year, however the story of horses and riders…
Location, Location, Location
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/11/22Nov24-Hollenberg-Pony-Express-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They say that in real estate, the three most important things are location, location, location. That was true even in…
The Christiana Riot
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/11/21Nov24-Christiana-Riot-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s called the Christiana Riot – a showdown between a slave owner and those harboring his runaway slaves. It led…
Brave Former Slaves
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/11/20Nov24-Christiana-Riot-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the years before the Civil War, many people stood up for the cause of freedom and equality. Some of…
The Wigwam Motel
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/11/19Nov24-Wigwam-Hotel.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you, your kids or even your grandkids have seen the movie Cars, then you probably remember the Cozy Cones. …
How the Ocean Affected Yuma
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/11/18Nov24-Yuma-Crossing-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)George Strait once sang that he had some ocean front property in Arizona and if you’d buy that he’d throw…
