http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/05Dec16-Sullivan-Brothers-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Immediately after the attack on Pearl Harbor, many young men across the nation immediately volunteered for the armed forces.  That…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/02Dec16-Mark-Sanborn.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)If you go by your local bookstore’s business section, you might just find his name on several best sellers.  Many…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/01Dec16-Blue-Owl-Bakery-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Mary simply wanted to honor those who had helped save the homes and businesses in the small town of Kimmswick. …

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/30Nov16-Blue-Owl-Bakery-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)You often don’t think about making a dessert that resembled a 50 foot high flood levee.  That’s what this bakery…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/29Nov16-Blue-Owl-Bakery-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It all began when Mary Hostetter had to bake 30,000 cookies for Christmas.  When she survived that challenge, she figured…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/28Nov16-Blue-Owl-Bakery-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Some of the nation’s most successful businesses began in someone’s home.  That’s the case for Mary, who turned her need…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/25Nov16-Pilgrim-Hall-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)We often trace our Thanksgiving holiday back to the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony.  It’s true they did have a feast…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/24Nov16-Pilgrim-Hall-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Where is the oldest museum in the nation?  You might guess New York or Washington, D.C., but the town is…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/23Nov16-Mayflower-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The original Mayflower that sailed with 102 Pilgrims back in 1620 is long gone.  But another ship by the same…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/22Nov16-Mayflower-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Today we associate the Pilgrims with the town of Plymouth, MA.  However, the landing spot was a bit accidental…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/21Nov16-Mayflower-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It just happened to be a ship that was available to sail, but the ship that was chosen is still…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/18Nov16-Vernal-Bank-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you need to ship 40 tons of bricks, you of course use…parcel post.  That’s what one man did to…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/17Nov16-Iran-Hostage-Rocky-Sickmann-7.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When someone in our military dies in the line of duty, we often memorialize them and their service, and rightly…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/16Nov16-Iran-Hostage-Rocky-Sickmann-6.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the middle of his most try time, Rocky Sickmann wondered if God was still there – if God would…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/15Nov16-Iran-Hostage-Rocky-Sickmann-5.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)January 20th, 1981 was inauguration day in the U.S.  It was also the day a 444 day hostage crisis ended…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/14Nov16-Iran-Hostage-Rocky-Sickmann-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)For those of use old enough to remember the events of 1979 and 1980, we may recall the plight of…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/11Nov16-Iran-Hostage-Rocky-Sickmann-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Rocky Sickmann was in a position to change the course of U.S. history.  If he had pulled the trigger on…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/10Nov16-Iran-Hostage-Rocky-Sickmann-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In 1979 Rocky Sickmann received his first assignment at a Marine Security Guard.  He knew it could be a challenge,…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/09Nov16-Iran-Hostage-Rocky-Sickmann-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Rocky Sickmann grew up in a rural area not far from St. Louis.  He had never ventured too far from…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/08Nov16-VLA-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In the early 1980s this flat, desolate rangeland saw a major change.  Now it is not only home to herds…