Author: Tom
Wide Enough Streets for U-Turns
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/03/14Mar24-Fredericksburg-Texas.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today cities don’t need to be laid out so that ox carts can make U-turns. However, that was the plan…
Riding A Horse Into the Hotel Lobby
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/03/13Mar24-Menger-Hotel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine a well-known general riding his horse into the lobby of a hotel…and it was met with applause. Another military…
Racing to Get a Hotel Room
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/03/12Mar24-Menger-Hotel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today just about every hotel room in America has a private bathroom included. Turn back the clock over a century…
Home of the Ice Cream Sundae
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/03/11Mar24-Two-Rivers-Ice-Cream-Sundae-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many of us enjoy an ice cream sundae. We have our favorite flavors and toppings. But were did that phrase,…
The Sistine Chapel of Twin Rivers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/08Mar24-Two-Rivers-Ice-Cream-Sundae-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some have referred to this place as the Sistine Chapel of this town. No the ceilings aren’t as high, nor…
An Art and Space Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/07Mar24-Sputnik-Art-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Perhaps you don’t think you’d care to go to an art museum. But what about a museum that had a…
Kicking It to the Side of the Road
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/06Mar24-Sputnik-Art-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was the middle of the night and two police officers had happened upon a relatively small piece of smoldering…
The Delivery Tree
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/05Mar24-Council-Grove-Kansas-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today if you need parts for your car or truck, you might just head to an auto repair store. Turn…
Messages Delivered in Weeks
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/04Mar24-Council-Grove-Kansas-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Before express mail or overnight delivery, messages traveled at a speed measured not in hours, but in weeks. For those…
Where Two Nations Could Met
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/01Mar24-Council-Grove-Kansas-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The hardwood trees along the Neosho River had been growing here for years. In fact, many of those old trees…
A Cedar Rapids Museum of the Past and Present
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/29Feb24-Czech-and-Slovak-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In Cedar Rapids, Iowa you’ll find an impressive museum that tells the past and present of a group of people…
Speaking the Same Language
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/28Feb24-Czech-and-Slovak-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the 1800s many immigrant groups began to move from Europe to the United States. Specific groups of people would…
The Prescott Frontier Days Rodeo
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/27Feb24-Prescott-Frontier-Days-Rodeo-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you come to watch this rodeo, you’ll most likely be sitting in seats that were first used in 1913. …
The First Rodeo
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/26Feb24-Prescott-Frontier-Days-Rodeo-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Where was the first rodeo held? You’ll find some debate on the actual beginning point of the sport with several…
A Long Way from Norway to Oklahoma
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/23Feb24-Heavener-Runestone-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a long way from Norway to Oklahoma. That’s precisely why this story seems so hard to believe. However, could…
Early Oklahoma Visitors
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/22Feb24-Heavener-Runestone-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You can find ancient carvings of Native Americans in many parts of the country. So when early settlers happened upon…
Evidence of Vikings in Oklahoma
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/21Feb24-Heavener-Runestone-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you want to learn the story of ancient Vikings you would of course travel to Scandinavia…or Oklahoma of course. …
A Visit to Jerome, Arizona
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/20Feb24-Jerome-Arizona-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many a mining boom town has experienced boom and bust. When this town was just about gone it began to…
President Grant’s Mobile Home
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/19Feb24-Grant-Boyhood-Home.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Presidential birthplaces are visited by many tourists each year. But no home may have quite the story as this small…
One of the Largest Cities in the Arizona Territory
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/16Feb24-Jerome-Arizona-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was once one of the largest cities in the Arizona Territory. Miners made there way to town to get…
