Author: Tom
The Arrival of Cattle in Hawaii
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/02Jul20-Robby-Hind-Parker-Cattle-Ranch-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When these animals first came to Hawaii, they were protected, but after thirty years and a lot of births, the…
The Title of Paniolo
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/01Jul20-Robby-Hind-Parker-Cattle-Ranch-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Robby Hind has the title of “Paniolo.” For people living in one state, that’s a very recognizable name, a job…
Who Are the Paniolos?
https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/1d004633-2e9e-47f1-9b89-a754011a2aa9/87acce9d-6e1d-427e-9030-ab9200e3ded5/4c062ab7-1b2d-4920-8dec-abea00c15f2b/audio.mp3Podcast: Download ()They are the cowboys of Hawaii and I visit with perhaps the biggest paniolo of all, Robby Hind, former livestock manager of the…
T or C
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/30Jun20-Truth-or-Consequences.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The name of this city is so long, most road signs abbreviate it. In fact, when you’re in state, it…
The Rock Spires of Pinnacles National Monument
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/29Jun20-Pinnacles-National-Monument.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Geologists tell us this place began as a volcano, but you certainly wouldn’t know it by climbing it’s rock spires…
Where the Buffalo Roam
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/26Jun20-Custer-State-Park-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a place wnere the buffalo roam and herds of people come to watch them. I’ll take you to a…
A Road to Make You Drive Slowly
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/25Jun20-Custer-State-Park-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The purpose of a new road is usually to get people from one point to another more quickly and safely. …
South Dakota’s First State Park
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/24Jun20-Custer-State-Park-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It is South Dakota’s first state park but when it was established over a century ago one man was worried…
John the Baptist and Music
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/23Jun20-Father-Paul-Turner-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may not think of John the Baptist as someone who would teach you a lot about music, but in…
Another Man’s Birthday Celebrated
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/22Jun20-Father-Paul-Turner-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Everyone knows that Christmas is celebrated on December 25th, but at the opposite point of the year, another man’s birth…
The Historic Route of Cereals
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/19Jun20-Kellogg-Cereal.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Grocery stores devote plenty of shelf space to cereals, but the historic route those breakfast foods took to get there…
The Copper Queen Mine
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/18Jun20-Copper-Queen-Mine.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Under the earth in southern Arizona you’ll find a place that brought people to the dry, wide open stretches of…
Some of the Best Loved Dogs in the World
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/17Jun20-Seeing-Eye.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They are some of the best known and most loved dogs in the world…
A Museum with Big Artifacts
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/16Jun20-South-Dakota-Air-Space-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a museum with some of the biggest artifacts you’ll find and you can walk right up to just about…
Higher and Faster than a Plane
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/15Jun20-South-Dakota-Air-Space-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When you think of an Air Force base you of course think of air planes. But at this base, the…
A Presidential Retreat
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/12Jun20-Catoctin-Mountain-Park-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)People have long recognized this place as a prime spot to get away from it all. During the term of…
A One-time Disaster Area
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/11Jun20-Catoctin-Mountain-Park-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There was a time when these hills were a seeming disaster area. Fires and erosion had driven farmers from the…
Boston’s Black Tide
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/10Jun20-Dark-Tide-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When a massive tank of molasses burst on Boston’s Commerical Street in 1919, 21 lives were lost in the resulting…
A Wall of Molasses
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/09Jun20-Dark-Tide-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)At first it may sound like a hoax, a wall of molasses moving through the city of Boston swallowing everything…
An Oasis in the Middle of a Desert
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/08Jun20-Mojave-Desert.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It is truly an oasis in the middle of a desert, a place where rails, roads and range meet. We…
