Author: Tom
The Need for More Lighthouses
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/17Apr13-3M-Two-Harbors-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)It’s been over a century since one major storm hit the shores of western Lake Superior. However the twenty plus…
Aboard the William Irvin
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/16Apr13-William-Irving-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Life aboard a ship on the Great Lakes can be difficult. The work is hard and the weather can be…
The Importance of Shipped Goods on the Great Lakes
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/15Apr13-William-Irving-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Giant lake freighters are constantly passing through the port here in Duluth, Minnesota. However, one ship is moored here permanently…a…
Two Million Dollars Raised in Less Than Ten Years
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/12Apr13-Shickley-Nebraska-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)I had heard much about the Shickley, Nebraska, a town of just over 300 people in southern Nebraska. When I…
Shickley, Nebraska
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/11Apr13-Shickley-Nebraska-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)For the next two broadcasts you’ll hear the story of Shickley, NE–a town of just over 300 that has raised…
Two Women Artists
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/10Apr13-Prairie-Pioneers.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)There’s a good chance you may have never heard of these two women artists. Yet the work they created and…
Sailing a Viking Ship Across the Atlantic
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/09Apr13-Viking-Ship-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)On the surface it seemed to be a ludicrous project. A man with no experience building boats, was going to…
Cruising a Different Way
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/08Apr13-Viking-Ship-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Robert Asp had a dream to visit Norway someday. It was, after all, the land where his family traced their…
Witness to An Assassination
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/05Apr13-JFK-Eugene-Boone-5.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the tragic events that unfolded in Dallas when President Kennedy was assassinated, we may forget that a police officer…
A Personal Connection to a National Tradgedy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/04Apr13-JFK-Eugene-Boone-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)In November of 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald shot President Kennedy. Just two days later, Jack Ruby shot Oswald. Deputy Eugene…
Searching the 6th Floor of the Texas School Book Depository
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/03Apr13-JFK-Eugene-Boone-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the early afternoon of November 22nd, 1963, Deputy Eugene Boone was searching the 6th floor of the Texas School…
In Search of An Assassin
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/02Apr13-JFK-Eugene-Boone-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Deputy Eugene Boone was watching President Kennedy’s motorcade pass Main Street on November 22, 1963. But just moments after the…
Yards Away from the Texas School Book Depository
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/01Apr13-JFK-Eugene-Boone-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Deputy Eugene Boone could have never imagined the life changing events that would occur in his life and those around…
Turning A Tragedy Into A Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/28Mar13-6th-Floor-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)When we encounter a tragic event, we may want to erase all memories of it. That is what some wanted…
Where the Mississippi Flows North
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/27Mar13-Lake-Itasca-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)The Mississippi River flows over 2500 miles, southward through the Midwestern U.S. That is, unless you are here, where the…
The Headwaters of the Mississippi River
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/26Mar13-Lake-Itasca-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)The Mississippi River empties into the Gulf of Mexico just south of New Orleans, Louisiana. But where does the mighty…
The Bus Line of the 1800s
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/25Mar13-Tennessee-River-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You could say it was the bus line of the 1800s. A network of transportation that could take you just…
Beefing Up the Hulls of Ships
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/22Mar13-Tennessee-River-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Necessity is the mother of invention. When the Civil War began, it was relatively easy to sink wooden ships, so…
Shiloh National Battlefield
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/21Mar13-Tennessee-River-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Each year, thousands of people will travel to southern Tennessee to see the famous national battleground at Shiloh. What most…
Remember the Raisin!
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/20Mar13-River-Raisin-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)We all recall the battle cry, “Remember the Alamo” but 200 years ago it was “Remember the Raisin!” So what…
