Author: Tom
The Big Gusher Suprise
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/04/01May14-Spindletop-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There just had to be oil under this hill, but no one could seem to drill down to it. After…
The Museum with the Mine Under Its Floor
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/04/30Apr24-Uranium-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a museum with its mine underneath the floor – an unusual, but effective idea on promoting the industry that…
A Different Mineral
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/04/29Apr24-Uranium-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many mining booms begin quite by chance. That was the case about 100 miles west of Albuquerque. However, the mineral…
The Cray Supercomputer
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/04/26Apr24-Cray-Supercomputer.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s been dubbed the world’s most expensive love seat. It’s true you can sit on it, but with an $8…
Darly Fire Trucks
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/04/25Apr24-Darly-Fire-Trucks.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)My father-in-law has been a volunteer fire fighter for many years. His small town does what it can with a…
Mason Shoes
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/04/24Apr24-Mason-Shoes.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today most of us don’t think much about buying a pair of shoes. There are many places you can shop…
Leinenkugel’s
Podcast: Download ()It is definitely one of the longer names in the beer brewing industry and has and equally long lineage of production to boot. …
Leaving a Favorable Impression
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/04/22Apr24-Brookfield-John-WIlkes-Booth-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Everyone knows John Wilkes Booth as the assassin of President Lincoln. However, before his deadly deed in April 1865, he…
The El Rancho Hotel
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/04/18Apr24-El-Rancho-Hotel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The movie stars are gone, but the legends still abound, including the story one celebrity who rode his horse into…
A Hotel for Movie Stars
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/04/17Apr24-El-Rancho-Hotel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was built to house movie stars. A hotel in western New Mexico where celebrities could catch some rest and…
The Old Government Building with a Story
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/04/16Apr24-Austin-French-Legation-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In Austin, Texas near the state capitol building you’ll find another old government building in a beautiful green space. It…
A Smaller Version of an Embassy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/04/15Apr24-Austin-French-Legation-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many countries establish embassies in other nations and usually those diplomatic sites are in a country’s capital. That is the…
Monument Hill, Texas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/04/12Apr24-Monument-Hill-Texas.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)On a high bluff overlooking the Colorado River in La Grange, Texas you’ll find a monument to men who gave…
Texas German Brewery
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/04/11Apr24-Texas-German-Brewery.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Germany is often known for its breweries and when immigrants sailed to the new world, they often brought that beer…
Home of the Bowie Knife
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/04/10Apr24-Bowie-Knife.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes people will travel a long way to get exactly the item they desire. That was the case for this…
Historic Washington, Arkansas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/04/09Apr24-Historic-Washington-Arkansas.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)As the city of Washington, D.C. was growing into its role as the nation’s capital, another city of Washington was…
A Church with Historic Distinction
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/04/08Apr24-Woolford-Old-Trinity-Church-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This church can hold about 50 people – maybe a few more if everyone squeezes tight for a wedding. And…
Woolford’s Old Trinity Church
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/03/05Apr24-Woolford-Old-Trinity-Church-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Along the coastline of Maryland’s easter shore, just south of the city of Cambridge, you’ll find a small, picturesque church…
The Theater Life
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/03/04Apr24-Mitchell-Farms-Movie-Theatres-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When Kenny Mitchell was dating his wife-to-be, they enjoyed going to the local movie theater. He probably never imagined how…
Diversifying the Family Farm
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/03/03Apr24-Mitchell-Farms-Movie-Theatres-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When this farm decided to diversify they didn’t do it by growing a different crop or buying livestock. They instead…