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A President’s Favorite Song
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0515-Home-on-the-Range-Cabin-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s one of the best known songs of that past century. In fact, one president said it was his favorite. …
My Western Home
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0514-Home-on-the-Range-Cabin-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may not fancy yourself a poet, and you may have forgotten a poem called My Western Home. But in…
Farmer’s Branch, Texas
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0513-Farmers-Branch-Texas.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The name Farmers Branch sums up the beginning of this place. A rich ag community along a north Texas stream. …
The Museum of Popcorn
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0512-Wyandotte-Popcorn-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many people like to get popcorn when the go to the movies. Initially though, theatres banned the snack because of…
A Museum for Something Popular
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0511-Wyandotte-Popcorn-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In Marion, Ohio you’ll find a museum that is the only one devoted to this in the world. That fact…
Old State Bank Currency
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0508-Old-State-Bank-Currency.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)One, five, ten, twenty? Now imagine there were more denominations and dozens of different types of bills in circulation. What…
Inside Fort Knox
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0507-Fort-Knox-5.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When most of us hear of Fort Knox, we think of gold. While gold is there, there is much more…
The Biggest Vault of All
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0506-Fort-Knox-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Whether you have any or not, many of us are fascinated by gold. It’s the storyline of many a tv…
Where Is the Nation’s Gold?
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0505-Fort-Knox-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Everyone knows that much of the nation’s gold is at Fort Knox. Or is it? That’s the question many wondered…
A Heavily Fortified Treasury
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0504-Fort-Knox-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ve heard of the gold at Fort Knox, and while we can’t go inside the vault, we do know much…
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…
