http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/01Aug12-Gene-Tunks-Drought.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Imagine a drought so severe that you began to cut down trees just so the cattle could eat the leaves….

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/31Jul12-Uncle-Bill-Drought.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 1.4MB)Drought.  It causes crops to shrivel, prices to spike and farmers to worry about making ends meet.  There is no…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/07/30Jul12-Frank-Phillips-Oil.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 1.4MB)On the surface it seemed like an unlikely scenario for success. A barber from Iowa striking oil and building one…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/27Jul12-Ariston-Cafe-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)If you are looking to get engaged, might we suggest booth number six at the Ariston Café in Litchfield, Illinois….

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/07/26Jul12-Ariston-Cafe-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Nick Adam’s father immigrated to the United States from Greece when he was only 15 years old.  He came by…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/07/25Jul12-McGloflin-House.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today it is just a historic site overlooking the Oregon’s Wilamette River…yet the man who lived here is regarded to…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/07/24Jul12-Carlyle-Illinois-Horseradish.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we say hello to our listeners on WXCO in Carlyle, Illinois.  You’ll see plenty of corn and soybean fields…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/07/23Jul12-Dublin-Bottling-Works-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Some of you may well remember the days of returning soda bottles to the store to get a few cents…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/07/20Jul12-Dublin-Bottling-Works-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)There are a lot of studies that show high consumption of sugary drinks is bad for your waistline and your…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/07/19Jul12-Dublin-Bottling-Works-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)If someone walked into a restaurant and said, “Shoot me a Waco,” no one would probably know what they meant….

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/07/18Jul12-FrankPhillips.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)When Frank bought a plane he needed a hangar in which to park it. Soon the plane wasn’t the only…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/07/17Jul12-Sy-Brenner-5.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 1.4MB)Life inside a POW camp in Germany was a struggle for survival.  Yet inside the barbed wire and the horrific…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/07/16Jul12-Sy-Brenner-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 1.4MB)Sy Brenner was an American soldier captured by the Germans and held in a POW camp.  He was fearful his…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/07/13Jul12-Sy-Brenner-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 1.4MB)Sy Brenner served as a medic during World War II.  However, he was about to be asked to serve in…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/07/12Jul12-Sy-Brenner-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 1.4MB)November 29th, 1944 was the night Sy Brenner was killed in action in southern France.  At least that’s what many…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/07/11Jul12-Sy-Brenner-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 1.4MB)Over the next five days you’ll hear an amazing story about one American POW during World War II.  We are…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/07/10Jul12-Collinsville-Ketchup-Bottle-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Today we call it “ketchup.”  But there was once a segment of this nation that knew it as “catsup.”  Today…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/07/09Jul12-Collinsville-Ketchup-Tower-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)If you’re one of those folks who will put ketchup on just about anything, head to Collinsville, IL.  If this…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/07/Palm-Springs-Oasis.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 944.5KB)If you visit Palm Springs, California, you may be tempted to believe this resort town was carved out of an…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/05Jul12-Freedom-Rock-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Why do people from all continents around the world send patriotic messages to a thirty-something artist living in Greenfield, IA….