http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/10May12-WCAZ-Radio.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.8MB)Today’s program comes from the studios of WCAZ Radio in Carthage, Illinois. It’s a place with a long tradition in…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/09May12-Holbrook-Arizona-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)There are many towns in the western U.S. that had rough and tumble beginnings.  They are places where it was…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/08May12-Junction-City-Opera-House.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)In the 1880s Junction City, Kansas built “The Jewel of the Prairie,” a grand opera house to serve the growing…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/04May12-Fort-Riley-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)There are a lot of important military artifacts in this museum and Dr. Robert Smith can tell you why each is…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/04May12-Hindenburg-2012.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)It was transatlantic service at its finest.  An airship almost three football fields long cruising at the then blazing speed…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/03May12-Fort-Riley-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Today we say hello to our listeners on KJCK in Junction City, KS.  Listeners there know the long-standing affiliation this…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/30Apr12-Spruce-Goose-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)This plane made but one flight – a trip that lasted about one mile just a few yards off of…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/04/27Apr12-Spruce-Goose-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)It was a behemoth of a plane…the H-4 Hercules…an aircraft with the largest wingspan of any every built.  But how…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/04/26Apr12-Alcatraz-Daughter.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 1.4MB)It was the most famous of escape attempts at Alcatraz.  A fact that no one has ever seen the three…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/04/25Apr12-Arkansas-Alligator-Farm.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Farms come in many shapes and sizes, raising crops, livestock and many other combinations.  But in central Arkansas, there is…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/04/24Apr12-Boston-Corbett-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)At one time, Boston Corbett was one of the most widely known men in the nation.  He was the man…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/04/23Apr12-Boston-Corbett-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)John Wilkes Boothe shot President Lincoln in April of 1865.  For nearly two weeks there was a manhunt to bring…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/04/20Apr12-Pima-Air-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Imagine flying a plane called the “SuperGuppy.”  There are only two in existence and one is here for the world…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/04/19Apr12-Pima-Air-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)The President of the United States flies in Air Force One, and to some extent they can customize the ride…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/04/18Apr12-Pima-Air-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)A few months ago, our broadcasts visited the Bone Yard, the long term storage facility for U.S. government aircraft in…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/04/17Apr12-Player-Piano.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)For the last 103 years, this company that has helped Americans play the piano. It doesn’t teach people to play…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/04/16Apr12-Lake-Chelan-Hotel.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)There are lake resorts all across the nation, but it’s not every day you encounter a family owned operation that…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/02/13Apr12-Unsinkable-Molly-Brown-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)April 15, 1912.  It was the night over 1500 people lost their lives aboard the Titanic.  Of the 710 survivors,…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/02/12Apr12-Unsinkable-Molly-Brown-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Perhaps you’ve never heard of Maggie Brown who hailed from Hannibal, Missouri.  But in a moment you’ll likely realize you…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/02/11Apr12-Atlanta-Illinois-Paul-Bunyan.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:56 — 1.3MB)If someone offered to give you a 19 foot tall giant, you would probably want to get several details before…