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Building a House from a Gambling Fortune
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/11/04Dec25-Ace-of-Clubs-House-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When this man won a card game that gained him a small fortune, he decided to build his family a…
A City on the State Line
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/11/03Dec25-Texarkana.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This city was established on a state line and one of its most important buildings is literally on top of…
Where Doctor Training Began
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/11/02Dec25-AT-Still-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Thirty percent of all doctors trained in the U.S. have this distinction. The story of how it all began can…
Turning To a New Occupation
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/11/01Dec25-AT-Still-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Andrew wanted to be a farmer, but when a drought wiped out his crop, he had thoughts of teaching school. …
More Than Sacks
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/11/28Nov25-Corn-Sacks-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes the packaging is even more important than the product inside – at least that’s what some marketers will tell…
Nurturing a Unique Collection
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/11/27Nov25-Corn-Sacks-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Ron Kelsey loved going to the state fair with his dad. Not only was it a big trip for a…
Rescuing An Old Gem
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/11/26Nov25-Fort-Recovery-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the late 1800s, this town was in need of a place to hold large gatherings and what resulted was…
Fort Recovery
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/11/25Nov25-Fort-Recovery-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1791 the U.S. Army lost hundreds of soldiers in battle in present day west central Ohio. When a new…
Preserving Land for Settlement
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/11/24Nov25-Fort-Recovery-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)As this nation neared it’s twentieth birthday, President George Washington was intent on securing the land in present day Ohio…
Sharing the Farming Story
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/11/21Nov25-Boal-Estate-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This family can trace it’s lineage to a family member who escaped execution by having himself smuggling out of the…
A Reputation for Transportation
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/11/20Nov25-Bellfountain-Ohio.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This Ohio town has long been known for it’s tie to transportation. Name any mode of travel and they probably…
The First Concrete Street
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/11/19Nov25-Bellfountain-Concrete-Street.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It takes a lot of work to keep up roads and highways. It a moment I’ll take you to the…
The Tifton, Georgia Museum of Agriculture
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/11/18Nov25-Tifton-Georgia-Museum-of-Agriculture-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In Tifton, Georgia there’s a place were you can ride a rare, vintage steam locomotive and learn the stories of…
Sharing the Farming Story
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/11/17Nov25-Tifton-Georgia-Museum-of-Agriculture-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Farming has changed much over the years and many of us still enjoy seeing the ways things were once done. …
President Andrew Johnson
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/14Nov25-Andrew-Johnson.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)One vote may not seem like much, but it’s one vote that kept this man as President of the United…
One of the Longest and Best Known Acts in the Country
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/13Nov25-The-Baldknobbers-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It had an inauspicious beginning. A variety show held in the basement of city hall that attracted a couple dozen…
The Baldknobbers
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/12Nov25-The-Baldknobbers-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They were called the Baldknobbers – a group of vigilantes that roamed the Ozarks dispensing justice as they saw fit. …
The Dalton Gang Hideout
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/11Nov25-Dalton-Gang-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There is a very famous tunnel running beneath the surface of a barnyard in Meade, Kansas. It was built in…
A Dalton Without a Life of Crime
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/10Nov25-Dalton-Gang-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The infamous Dalton Gang robbed individuals and businesses in the Midwest during the early 1890s. But not all of the…
The End of the Line
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/07Nov25-Faith-South-Dakota.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was the end of the train line, and that fact meant that very few towns survived west of here….
