http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Cape-Girardeau-Lazy-L-Safari-Park.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)When you pull in the drive at the Lance farm, you might expect to see cattle or horses.  But a…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Cape-Girardeau-Civil-War.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 1.4MB)Civil War engineers were simply running out of names, but that doesn’t mean the forts here were not important.  It’s…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Cape-Girardeau-Bollinger-Mill.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)All this week, we’ll be in Cape Girardeau, Missouri–the place where the river turns a thousand tales.  We begin with…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Battle-of-Boonville.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)As you may know, we do all of our stories from the actual location where they occur. While we did…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Red-Skelton-Festival.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)If you go to Vincennes, Indiana this weekend, there’s a good chance you’ll meet a clown.  Actually, there’s a chance…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Hopewell-Mounds-2011.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)History on this continent is young when compared to places like Europe, but that mentality is to forget about the…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Moberly-Missouri-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Ever dream of owing your own railroad?  Well, now you have the next best thing–you can rent a railroad for…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Moberly-Missouri-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Today we welcome our listeners on 1230 KWIX in Moberly, MO.  To visit the radio station there, you’ll need to…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/King-City-Missouri-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)In over 15 years of traveling the countryside, we have yet to feature an attraction from my hometown, the place…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/King-City-Missouri-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)New York City as the Empire State building, Seattle the Space Needle and for many years, King City, Missouri had…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/John-Baker-Sports-Memorabilia-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Collecting and selling sports memorabilia can be big business.  John Baker ended up in it somewhat by accident and the…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/John-Baker-Sports-Memorabilia-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Many of us have enjoyed picking up a ball and glove and playing catch. Now image picking up a ball…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/Indy-500-Centennial.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)In the early days of auto building, hundreds of car makers battled for their own slice of the pie. With…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/Vincennes-Rendevous1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)In 1779, soldiers of the American Revolution set foot here to capture lands for the new United States. Over two…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/Kaskaskia-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Today we head west of the Mississippi River to the state of Illinois.  Yes, that’s west…..

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/Kaskaskia-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)The Liberty Bell tolled for freedom in Philadelphia…or was it really in the State of Illinois?

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/Kaskaskia-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Roll back the clock 250 years and this city’s population might rival some of the largest towns on the east…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/Powhatan-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Today the town of Powhatan is nearly a ghost town. However, it’s buildings have been preserved and the stories of…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/Powatan-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of Powhatan, Arkansas. However, this was once a thriving city with steamboat traffic…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/Sitting-Bull-2011.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)He is one of the greatest Indian chiefs ever to lead his tribes in peace and battle.  Ironically, two different…