Author: Tom
Cyrus McCormick and His Threshing Machine
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/29Aug14-Cyrus-McCormick.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)For centuries, crops were cut and threshed by hand. That all changed with a young farmer in Virginia. This is…
Building a Utopian Society
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/28Aug14-New-Harmony-Indiana-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1825, Robert Own of Wales, purchased an entire town in the state of Indiana. His dream was to create a…
A Place Called Harmony
Harmony. It might be defined as finding peace with one’s self and one another. That’s what the people who established the town of Harmony were looking…
A Long-Established Community
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/26Aug14-New-Harmony-Indiana-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are many reasons people came from Europe to the newly founded United States. Some came to find freedom to…
Developing the Self Scouring Plow
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/25Aug14-John-Deere-Plow.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Although you may associate his name with tractors, he never saw one. Yet his name is synonymous with the equipment used…
Burning the White House
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/22Aug14-White-House-1812-War-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It was an act that seemed unthinkable. Another nation’s army marched into the United States capital and burned its most important government…
The Most Famous Lady to Occupy the White House
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/21Aug14-White-House-1812-War-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Perhaps the most famous first lady to ever occupy the White House was Dolly Madison. She was known to host parties…
George Washington’s Influence on the White House Design
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/20Aug14-White-House-1812-War-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Although George Washington was the nation’s first president, he never got to live inside the presidential mansion that was being constructed in…
The Affect of Farming on Building the White House and Capitol
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/19Aug14-White-House-1812-War-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was a long and tedious process to build the U.S. Capitol and what we know as the White House. The…
The Fertile Farmland of Palmer, Alaska
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/18Aug14-Palmer-Alaska-Farmers-Market.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When you think of fertile farmland, you perhaps think of a location with deep rich soil in the Midwest. But…
A Trip to St. Genevieve, Missouri
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/08/15Aug14-St-Genevieve-Missouri.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We’ve all seen a log cabin. Such structures were the norm for many Americans early in the country’s history. But…
Hot Zone Falconry
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/08/14Aug14-Hot-Zone-Falconry-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Farmers might contract with someone to spray for weeds, fertilize the soil or harvest a crop. Some farmers even contract for…
The Problem with Birds for a Crop
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/08/13Aug14-Hot-Zone-Falconry-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are many challenges to growing a crop. Poor weather, weeds, and disease are just a few. We often don’t think…
Artichokes
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/08/12Aug14-Artichokes-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Some people turn up their nose at brussels sprouts. Where do artichokes fare in comparison? We head to a valley where…
A New Perspective on a Vegetable
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/08/11Aug14-Artichokes-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes it’s hard to get kids to eat their vegetables. Now imagine the vegetable looks like a hand grenade and people…
Preparing for the Iditarod
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/08Aug14-Iditarod-Headquarters-Reddington.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Some sports not only require thousands of hours of training, they also require a hefty financial investment. For those who…
The Rights to a Famous Cowboy Song
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/07Aug14-Home-on-the-Range-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)In the 1930s a cowboy song began to get quite a bit of air time on radio stations. But suddenly…
Home on the Range
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/06Aug14-Home-on-the-Range-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The song, “Home of the Range,” turns 140 years old this year. It might not sound like a big deal, but…
A Poem Stuffed in a Book
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/05Aug14-Home-on-the-Range-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Brewster Higley didn’t think much about the poem he’d written. In fact, he stuffed it in a book and hadn’t looked…
A Man and His Cabin
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/04Aug14-Home-on-the-Range-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)On the surface, the story doesn’t seem too different from other settlers stories of the late 1800s. A man from Indiana…
