Author: Tom
Duelling Banjos
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Banjo-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)You’ve heard of dueling banjos–now multiply it times several hundred. It’s a unique convention of sights and sounds that arrives…
Kennecott Copper Mine
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/12Jul11-Kennecott-Copper-Mine.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)It’s the largest open pit mine in the world, with a hole so deep it swallowed entire towns. The mine…
Jowler Creek Winery
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Jowler-Creek-Winery-21.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Most crops in the Midwest are planted in the spring and harvested in the fall. The farmer’s investment is mostly…
Growing Grapes
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Jowler-Creek-Winery-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)What led this beef and row crop farmer to begin growing grapes? The answer is a good one, but it…
A Reward for Remaining Loyal to the King
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Philipse-Manor-31.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)When America won her independence, there were thousands of men and women who remained loyal to England during the war….
Signing the Declaration of Dependence
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Philipse-Manor-21.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)Fifty-six men signed the Declaration of Independence in July of 1776, but not everyone was pleased with the patriotic document….
A Woman Ship’s Captain of the 1600’s
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Philipse-Manor-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)It’s rare to find a young married lady commanding a ship, crisscrossing the Atlantic multiple times each year. Now imagine…
The Liberty Bell
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Liberty-Bell-2011.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)July 4th, 1776…Indpendence Day in the United States. One of the symbols of our freedom is the Liberty Bell. But…
Springfield, Illinois: New Salem Village
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Springfield-Illinois-New-Salem1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)Where was Abraham Lincoln living when he won his first political office? You may have forgotten that it was this…
Springfield, Illinois: Lincoln’s Tomb
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Springfield-Illinois-Lincolns-Tomb1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)Arlington National Cemetery is the most visited cemetery is the nation. Which one ranks second? Well, a stop here honors…
Springfield, Illinois: The Cozy Dog
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Springfield-Illinois-Cozy-Dog.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)Route 66 is full of pieces of Americana, and in Central Illinois you’ll find a drive-in over 65 years old,…
Springfield, Illinois: History Comes Alive
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Springfield-Illinois-History-Comes-Alive.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:31 — 1.2MB)It’s been 150 years since Abraham Lincoln was President, but you can still visit with him and get his thoughts…
Springfield, Illinois: A Presidential Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Springfield-Illinois-Lincoln-Library1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:31 — 1.1MB)This week we’re in Springfield, Illinois–of course any stop here likely includes the Abraham Lincoln presidential library. It’s a place…
Learning to Ride A…
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Jed-Ward-Muni-Unicycle.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Many of us remember the struggle of learning to ride a bike as a kid. Eventually we mastered it, and…
Shopping at Lehman’s
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Kidron-Ohio-Lehman-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)If you lived without electricity–either by choice or simply because of the location you lived–where would you go to find…
Niche Marketing at Its Best
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Kidron-Ohio-Lehman-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)If you’re going to do well in business you have to stay up with the times. But for Jay Lehman,…
Perfecting an Airplane
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Dayton-Ohio-Wright-Brothers-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)The Wright Brothers made their first flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. However, it was the farmers around Dayton, Ohio…
The Home of the Wright Brothers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Dayton-Ohio-Wright-Brothers-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Although Kitty Hawk, North Carolina received most of the attention regarding the Wright Brothers first flight, it was this Ohio…
Cape Girardeau: Discovery Playhouse
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Cape-Girardeau-Discovery-Playhouse.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:13 — 1.5MB)We’ve all been to museums, but have you ever been to one were you needed to put on a boot…
Cape Girardeau: Riverfront Murals
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Cape-Girardeau-Murals.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 1.4MB)Michelangelo had a very large canvass when he began work on the Sistine chapel. Make a trip to this river…