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Watching the Presidential Motorcade
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/19Sep23-Eugene-Boone-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Deputy Eugene Boone was watching President Kennedy’s motorcade pass Main Street on November 22, 1963. But just moments after the…
The Famous Willard Hotel Bar
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/18Sep23-Willard-Hotel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The round bar at the Willard Hotel has been the places where generations of politicians, celebrities and power brokers have…
The Other House for the President
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/15Sep23-Willard-Hotel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The President, of course, lives in the White House. But over the decades, when a president or president-elect has needed…
Opening & Closing the Old Faithful Inn
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/14Sep23-Old-Faithful-Inn-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Depending on where live in the country, you sometimes have to ready your home for the cold winter months. Now…
Yellowstone by Stagecoach
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/13Sep23-Old-Faithful-Inn-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today you can take a highway loop to the sites at Yellowstone National Park. In the days before cars, that…
An Inn by the Geysers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/12Sep23-Old-Faithful-Inn-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the latter half of the 1800s, explorers and early visitors to what is today Yellowstone National Park were amazed…
The Van Doren Brothers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/11Sep23-Van-Doren-Brothers.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Van Doren brothers hailed from Vermilion County, Illinois. Their father saw great potential in his sons and even made…
Mr. Speaker
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/08Sep23-Speaker-of-the-House-Joe-Cannon-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Speaker of the House is an important position in government and this man is often regarded as the man…
Joe Cannon’s Early Lessons
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/07Sep23-Speaker-of-the-House-Joe-Cannon-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What happens in a kid’s life can have an impact on what they do later in life. That was the…
A Name Within a Name
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/06Sep23-Speaker-of-the-House-Joe-Cannon-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A name may say a lot about a person. In this case, there was a man’s name within a man’s…
The Landmark Golf Course
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/05Sep23-Landmark-Golf-Course-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You won’t find a big sign for this place and you’ll travel down plenty of gravel roads to reach it…
Traveling Gravel Roads to Golf
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/04Sep23-Landmark-Golf-Course-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)“Landmand” is the Danish word for farmer and in northeast Nebraska you’ll find a place that recently opened with that…
A Piece of Ground that Stands Out
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/01Sep23-Landmark-Golf-Course-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Bryce Andersen’s family had a piece of ground that stood out, but for the wrong reasons. It was just too…
Stephen Douglas Birthplace
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/31Aug23-Stephen-Douglas-Birthplace.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Abraham Lincoln led the country through the Civil War…but it was this man who defeated him for the senate just…
An Aviation Pioneer
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/30Aug23-Carl-Ben-Eielson-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Carl Ben Eielson hailed from Hatton, North Dakota. He was a pioneer in aviation and helped open the vast Alaskan…
Bringing the First Airplane to Alaska
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/29Aug23-Carl-Ben-Eielson-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the 1920 a guy named Carl brought the first airplane to Fairbanks, Alaska. What took place from there would…
Carl Ben Eielson
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/28Aug23-Carl-Ben-Eielson-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you live in the states of North Dakota or Alaska, you quite likely have heard of Carl Ben Eielson. …
More Than Peanut Butter
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/25Aug23-George-Washington-Carver-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may know him for just one thing…peanut butter…but in a moment you’ll see just how much this man accomplished. …
One of the Most Famous Agricultural Scientists
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/24Aug23-George-Washington-Carver-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He is one of the most famous agricultural scientists…a man who was born a slave and struggled to find a…
A Beautiful Church in Rural Montana
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/23Aug23-St.-Ignatius-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Just north of Missoula, Montana you’ll find a beautiful rural church with quite a story. It’s a place where people…
