Author: Tom
Seeing Light Years Away
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/07Nov16-VLA-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Being able to see far ahead helps one plan for the future. Here on the barren plains of New Mexico…
The Final Duel
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/04Nov16-The-Final-Duel.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Dueling was a way to solve serious disputes early in our nation’s history. However it’s this duel in 1859 that’s…
The Ship that Became a Building
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/03Nov16-A-Ship-Turned-Building.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many 19th century immigrants came to the U.S. on ships. When these enterprising men arrived, they found a unique use…
The Western End of the Pony Express
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/02Nov16-West-End-of-the-Pony-Express.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The eastern end of the Pony Express was in St. Joseph, Missouri. You can still go and see the stables…
Lifting Sacramento
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/01Nov16-Sacramento-History-Underground-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If your home or business flooded, you might seek higher ground. Here, the people didn’t go somewhere else, they just…
The Field that Became Bakersfield
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/31Oct16-Sacramento-History-Underground-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It was just an ordinary field until the winter of 1862. That’s when floodwaters pushed onto the land and a…
Longer Than Noah’s Flood
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/28Oct16-Sacramento-History-Underground-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ve heard of Noah’s flood. This city had it worse it terms of numbers of straight days of rain. What…
The Other Inauguration
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/27Oct16-They-Also-Ran-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)On the day the latest U.S. president is sworn into office, the runner-up will receive their own ceremony just a…
The “Biggest Loser”
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/26Oct16-They-Also-Ran-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This man ran for president five times and never won. Some may call him the “biggest loser.” Here it just…
They Also Ran
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/25Oct16-They-Also-Ran-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)If you competed in a race and didn’t win, you might be labeled an “also ran.” But in this town,…
June McCarroll
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/24Oct16-June-McCarrol.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Today you could get a ticket if you don’t drive on your side of the road. But in 1917, Dr….
The Man Who Buys Museums
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/21Oct16-Museums-in-a-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Did you ever imagine you might turn a collection into your own museum? This man has museums within museums. In…
Harold Bell Wright
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/20Oct16-Harold-Bell-Wright.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of Harold Bell Wright. He was one of the top author’s a century…
The World’s Largest Toy Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/19Oct16-Branson-Worlds-Largest-Toy-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The parents of every young kids, and some old ones, know they love their toys. Tom Beck set out to…
Tom Beck’s Collecting
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/18Oct16-Branson-Worlds-Largest-Toy-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What should you do with your time when you retire? Tom and Wendy Beck took an adventure that resulted in…
Sacagawea
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/17Oct16-Sacagawea-2016.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)She is probably the most well known Native American woman in our country’s history…a lady vital to the success of…
10,000 Bottle of Soda Pop
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/14Oct16-Dicks-Five-and-Ten-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)This is the type of store you can get lost in. Not because the layout is a maze, but rather…
Revival of the Dime Store
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/13Oct16-Dicks-Five-and-Ten-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)An average Wal-Mart SuperCenter has 142,000 items. Steve Hartley runs a store much smaller in size, yet carries over 75,000…
Dick’s Five and Ten
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/12Oct16-Dicks-Five-and-Ten-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)You might think Steve is operating a business that died long ago. After all, almost all the other similar stores…
Hanging on to the “Bitter End”
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/11Oct16-Christopher-Columbus-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)If you told Columbus’ crew to hang on to the “bitter end,” they probably would not take you up on…
