Author: Tom
The High Yielding Crop Grown in Urban Sprawl
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/01/02Feb21-Plant-City-Florida-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine attempting to grow a high value crop in the middle of one of America’s largest cities. That’s exactly what…
The Railroad that Grew Great Strawberries
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/01/01Feb21-Plant-City-Florida-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What does it take to grow great strawberries? A good railroad of course. That’s one of the reasons many of…
The Portage at Portage
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/01/29Jan21-Portage-at-Portage.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It is still revered as one of the most difficult canal building projects ever undertaken–a project to tame a rapidly…
Building a Library You Can Fish From
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/01/28Jan21-Ben-Hur-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some people fix up their office with pictures and knick-knacks that remind them of their favorite things in life. This…
Earning Royalties from Naming Pets
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/01/27Jan21-Ben-Hur-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some people put a lot of thought into the names of their animals. But would you be willing to pay…
The Best Selling Book that Made Lew Famous
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/01/26Jan21-Ben-Hur-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may have never heard the name Lew Wallace, but I bet you’ve heard of one of the books he…
Wild Child – Lew Wallace
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/01/25Jan21-Ben-Hur-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He was a wild child. The son of a governor he was also a military veteran, artist, writer, lawyer…the list…
Names Carved in Stone
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/01/22Jan21-Alexandria-MN-Veterans-Memorial.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There is something about seeing someone’s name in stone. That may be on a grave side marker, or in this…
Finding a Place on the Lake
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/01/21Jan21-Alexandria-MN-Legacy-of-Lakes-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A lot of people enjoy heading to the lake. In fact, some like it so much, they buy land or…
Home of the Lakes
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/01/20Jan21-Alexandria-MN-Legacy-of-Lakes-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Lots of people head to the lake for summer vacation. That’s certainly the case in this county, but unlike a…
How Charles Pinckney Impacted You
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/01/19Jan21-Charles-Pinckney.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may not have heard his name…but the impact this young man left on our government is still felt today…even…
Prodigal Sons of the Arivaca Ranch
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/01/18Jan21-Arivaca-Boys-Ranch-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Bible’s parable of the prodigal son shares the story of a wayward young man that comes home to a…
A Boy Breaks a Horse, The Horse Breaks Him
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/01/15Jan21-Arivaca-Boys-Ranch-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Arivaca ranch has been breaking horses since the late 1800s. They’re still breaking horses…but today the horses are also…
The Ranch That Raises Much More Than Cattle
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/01/14Jan21-Arivaca-Boys-Ranch-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)For over a century, this ranch near Arizona’s border with Mexico has raised thousands of head of cattle, herded by…
Shouldn’t Pigeon have a “D”?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/01/13Jan21-Bob-Slater-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)How do you spell pigeon? You know that bird that you sometimes need to get rid of around buildings? That…
Shaking Hands and Trading Punches with Legend
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/01/12Jan21-Bob-Slater-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In his years as a newspaper reporter, Bob Slater shook hands with a lot of folks you’ve heard of…a who’s…
The US President & The Hitchhiker
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/01/11Jan21-Bob-Slater-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a big deal to meet the president of the United States. Some people will do just about anything to…
The Man Who Ran For President Three Times
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/12/08Jan21-William-Jennings-Bryan.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Over a century has passed since this man ran for president three times. While he never held the oval office,…
The Lights That Turned Night to Day
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/12/07Jan21-Hearthstone-Mansion.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Reports say the lights in this home made it seem like night had turned to day. In fact, the lights…
Swamp Root to Cure Your Ails
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/12/06Jan21-Allerton-Iowa-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you saw an advertisement for someone selling “swamp root” that could cure your ails, well, you might be a…
