Author: Tom
Mine Creek
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/29Jan13-Mine-Creek-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)It was a last ditch effort for the south to take Missouri and upend President Lincoln’s plans for reelection. In…
Marais des Cygnes Massacre
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/28Jan13-Mine-Creek-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)There had long been disturbances along Missouri’s border with Kansas in the years leading up to the Civil War. However,…
A Journey Towards a Gold Medal
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/25Jan13-Scott-Hamilton-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)Thirteen Americans have won an Olympic gold medal in individual figure skating. For Scott Hamilton, the his gold medal is…
Reaching Triumph
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/24Jan13-Scott-Hamilton-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)Many athletes have stories of overcoming failure in order to reach triumph. For Scott Hamilton, the journey to a gold…
A Doctor Prescribed Ice Rink
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/23Jan13-Scott-Hamilton-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)Scott Hamilton was never supposed to accomplish much in sports, let alone win a gold medal. In fact, the way…
The National Road
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/22Jan13-National-Road.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)It could be considered the nation’s first interstate highway…a route over a century ahead of it’s modern-day, multi-lane relatives. But…
The National Cathedral
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/21Jan13-National-Cathedral.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Although the founding fathers chose not to have a state religion in the country, they still chose to have a…
Juggler Greg Frisbee
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/18Jan13-Juggler-Greg-Frisbee.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Lot of people juggle. Some people can juggle clubs. Others can juggle knives. A few even juggle torches. Greg Frisbee…
Telling the Story of a Three Year Division
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/17Jan13-Hell-Cats-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)Many military museums tell the story of an entire war, or perhaps the history of a fort or military outpost….
The Hell Cats
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/16Jan13-Hell-Cats-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)They were often known as the Hell Cats. Others knew them by the name, “Suicide Squad” for their hard fought…
The Salt and Pepper Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/15Jan13-Salt-Pepper-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We sometimes bill our program as a slice of Americana, and today’s broadcast certainly fills that theme. We visit with…
The Man Who Saved Route 66
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/14Jan13-Route-66-Angel-Delgadio-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)According to Angel Delgadio, I’m about the 600th person to interview him. I feel fortunate to get to talk to…
From the Barbershop on Route 66
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/11Jan13-Route-66-Angel-Delgadio-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Angel Delgadio has lived over 85 years on route 66 in Arizona. He remembers the Depression years when people headed…
The Story of Sam
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/10Jan13-Wal-Mart-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)He was one of the wealthiest men in America. Yet almost everyone that ever worked with him would tell you…
Making the Most of Your Space
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/09Jan13-Wal-Mart-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It you walked into a business that had just remodeled its space and noticed the floor tiles did not match,…
An Unrenewed Lease That Changed the Future
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/08Jan13-Wal-Mart-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It’s said, “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” Perhaps that’s how Sam should have regarded that fact that his…
Bluff Dwellers Cavern
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/07Jan13-Bluff-Dwellers-Cavern.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Arthur Browning thought he was just going to check the traps on his farm one morning back in 1927. What…
Rounding Up the Island Herd
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/04Jan13-Antelope-Island-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Every fall there is a round-up of the herd here just outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. You can even…
Grazing Animals on an Island
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/12/03Jan13-Antelope-Island-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Until the 1960s, ranchers took animals by a barge from the mainland to this island for grazing. The vast rangeland…
A Lake Larger Than Rhode Island
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/02Jan13-Antelope-Island-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Jeremy Shaw is responsible for patrolling a lake larger than the state of Rhode Island. It’s a unique place that’s…