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The Fame of Charles Lindbergh
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/25Jul23-Lindbergh-Little-Falls-Minnesota-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s hare do describe just how famous this man had become. It’s estimated that in the late 1920s one in…
Seeing His First Airplane
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/24Jul23-Lindbergh-Little-Falls-Minnesota-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Do you remember seeing an important event for the first time when you were a kid. That was the case…
Boy Charles, The Inventor
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/21Jul23-Lindbergh-Little-Falls-Minnesota-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes kids, even from an early age, will give you a glimpse of what they might do or become as…
Lincoln’s 81 Bottle of Champagne
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/20Jul23-Lincoln-Vandalia-Illinois-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What was Abraham Lincoln doing with 81 bottles of champagne and 14 pounds of raisins? Thankfully he didn’t consume them…
Lincoln’s Start in Politics
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/19Jul23-Lincoln-Vandalia-Illinois-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You can go to Springfield, IL and learn plenty about president Abraham Lincoln. His home and presidential library are there. …
Teddy’s Unusual Pet
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/18Jul23-Fort-Wallace-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Presidents receive all kinds of gifts. One young resident of Sharon Springs, KS was so excited to see President Teddy…
Unearthing a Mystery
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/17Jul23-Fort-Wallace-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Doctors may be called upon to help people in all kinds of situations, but the request in Wallace, KS was…
Rescue of the German Family
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/14Jul23-Fort-Wallace-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Conflicts between Native Americans and westward moving settlers took place around Ft. Wallace, in western Kansas, during the years around…
Fort Wallace – Wallace, KS
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/13Jul23-Fort-Wallace-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today it is a small town in an area where towns are few and far between. Yet it is a…
Avoiding Locust Trees and Other Obstacles
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/12Jul23-Wright-Brothers-Dayton-Ohio-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Wright Brothers made their first flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. However, it was the farmers around Dayton that…
The Wright Brothers in Dayton, Ohio
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/11Jul23-Wright-Brothers-Dayton-Ohio-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Although Kitty Hawk, North Carolina received most of the attention regarding the Wright Brothers first flight, it was this Ohio…
Canton, Kansas and Its Famous Water Towers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/10Jul23-Canton-Kansas-Water-Towers.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Just about every town has a water tower. Canton, Kansas has not one, but two such towers, similar in size…
Inside Andy’s Sherriff Office
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/07Jul23-Mayberry-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most of us have at least seen an episode or two of the Andy Griffith Show. A good chunk of…
Patrolling Like Andy & Barney
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/06Jul23-Mayberry-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you build your own police car, take to the roads and turn on the siren, well, you might quickly…
Mt. Airy, North Carolina
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/05Jul23-Mayberry-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Mt. Airy, North Carolina is a town of about 10,000 people. If you type the name of the town into…
Picket’s Charge
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/04Jul23-Gettysburg-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Every Independence Day we remember those who have fought for our freedom. One well known battlefield still draws thousands of…
A Twenty Year Gettysburg National Battlefield Guide
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/03Jul23-Gettysburg-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He’s shared his knowledge with joint chiefs of staff, ambassadors and other high ranking government officials. But when you lead…
Lewis & Clark’s Montana Obstacle
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/30Jun23-Great-Falls.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Although sandbars and other river snags were a danger for Lewis and Clark on the way up the Missouri River…it…
Albany, Minnesota’s Pioneer Days
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/29Jun23-Albany-Pioneer-Days-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are lots of places you can go to see classic tractors. Most are well done and many have a…
The Small Town Event that Became a Big Time Attraction
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/28Jun23-Albany-Pioneer-Days-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)One September weekend each year you can count on about 20,000 to 25,000 people to attend an event in central…
