Author: Tom
Those Huge Overalls
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/03Nov25-Gays-Mill-Wisconsin-Huge-Overalls.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some clothing departments have a section for Big & Tall men. One particular piece of clothing at Julia’s store definitely…
Gays Mil, Wisconsin Apples
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/31Oct25-Gays-Mill-Wisconsin-Apples.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Gays Mill, Wisconsin is a town of about 500 people. However, every September the town will swell to perhaps as…
The Museum of Unremarkable Objects
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/30Oct25-Museum-of-Unremarkable-Objects-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many museums hold unique and precious items you won’t find anywhere else. This museum does quite the opposite and that,…
Artistic Stumps
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/29Oct25-Museum-of-Unremarkable-Objects-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When a tree was toppled in a storm near Martha and Steve’s rural home in southwestern Wisconsin, they never imaged…
A Look Back to the NFA 60 Years Later
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/28Oct25-NFA-FFA-Merger-60th-Anniverary-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1965 the Future Farmers of America and the New Farmers of America combined their organizations. Today we take a…
Separate, But Not Always Equal
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/27Oct25-NFA-FFA-Merger-60th-Anniverary-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Separate but equal was almost always separate and NOT equal. That was the case in agricultural education as well with…
The Hotel Roanoke
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/24Oct25-Hotel-Roanoke-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)At one time is was the grandest of hotels in the state of Virginia. But the wheels of time eventually…
How to Build a Large City
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/23Oct25-Hotel-Roanoke-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What’s it take to build a large city? A railroad and nice hotel of course. It was a winning combination…
A Focal Point of National Attention
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/22Oct25-Camp-Nelson-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Times of war often bring the displacement of families simply fleeing the conflict. That was the case in this country…
Camp Nelson
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/21Oct25-Camp-Nelson-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1863 and 1864 a place called Camp Nelson in Kentucky became a focal point for men wanting to join…
On the Wrong Side of the Line
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/20Oct25-Camp-Nelson-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the Civil War began, some citizens found that the places they lived were on the wrong side of the…
The Mother Store
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/17Oct25-JC-Penney-Mother-Store-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s called the “mother store” because it was the first of many. You can still come here to purchase modern…
Tracing a Store to Its Roots
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/16Oct25-JC-Penney-Mother-Store-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you want to make it big in retailing clothes and general merchandise, you might not pick southwestern Wyoming as…
Georgia’s Second Oldest City
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/15Oct25-Fort-King-George-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many people travel to Savannah, Georgia, the state’s oldest city, to enjoy its tree lined streets and colonial history. A…
Getting Free From a Deadly Place
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/14Oct25-Fort-King-George-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There was no doubt the men assigned to this fort did not like it here. But exactly how far would…
Fort King George
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/13Oct25-Fort-King-George-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In southeast Georgia you’ll find an outpost built to protect the British interests from the Spanish and the French. While…
The Joss House
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/10Oct25-Joss-House.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It took a large workforce from points around the globe to lay the rails that connected the nation. In Evanston,…
Hockeytown USA
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/09Oct25-Hockeytown-USA.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s known as “Hockeytown USA.” This small but mighty town has produced many top athletes and has competed at the…
Minnesota’s Northwest Angle
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/08Oct25-Minnesotas-Northwest-Angle.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The northernmost point in the lower 48 states was created when the maps of the era weren’t accurate in determining…
Living Well Past 100 Years Old
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/07Oct25-Warroad-Minnesota-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)These days it’s not that uncommon to find people who live to be 100 years old or more. In this…
