Author: Tom
Guinness Records Knows Casey, Illinois
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/26Sep19-Casey-Illinois-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The folks at Guinness Book World Records knows Casey, Illinois very well. It seems they have to send someone there…
A Beautiful Rocking Chair
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/25Sep19-Casey-Illinois-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s a beautiful rocking chair. The kind of chair that would be the perfect place to relax. There’s plenty of…
How Windchimes Changed Lives
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/24Sep19-Casey-Illinois-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)They are the windchimes that changed the way people thought about this small town. How could wind chimes do that…
A Trip to the Rhino Barn
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/23Sep19-Ashfall-Fossil-Beds-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)If you were going to a rhino barn, you’d of course expect to see rhinos, perhaps at a zoo. This…
An Amazing Site to See and Visit
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/20Sep19-Ashfall-Fossil-Beds-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In sharing these stories with you for over two decades I’ve seen a lot of interesting places, but I recently…
Volcanic Ash in Nebraska
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/19Sep19-Ashfall-Fossil-Beds-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When you think volcanoes spewing clouds of hot ash, you probably do not think of the state of Nebraska. But…
A Steer, A Country Club, and Clint Eastwood
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/18Sep19-ML-McCrea-Rawhide-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Today’s story involves a steer invited to eat at a Country Club, Clint Eastwood and one farm kid who found…
An Angus Steer Playing the Part of a Longhorn
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/17Sep19-ML-McCrea-Rawhide-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)He was an actor way out of his normal character roll. But the most intriguing thing was the fact, this…
An Impact Still Felt Today
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/16Sep19-Maggie-Walker-2019.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Her name may not be as prominent as Martin Luther King or Booker T. Washington, yet her impact is still…
Still Visiting a Star’s Birthplace
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/13Sep19-Elvis-Birthplace.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)About 70% of the 100,000 visitors that come to this small home each year are from outside the U.S. Yet…
The National Championship Pedal Pull
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/12Sep19-Pedal-Pull-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Every September kids from across the country come to the Corn Palace to compete in this national championship. It’s a…
Another Way to Invest Your Retirement Money
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/11Sep19-Pedal-Pull-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)People decide to do a multitude of things with their retirement money. Ken Meyers decided to invest his in something…
A Place They Call Barnacopia
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/10Sep19-Barnacopia.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)What does a farmer do when he retires from working the land? For Gary Bocker he really wasn’t looking to…
Traveling to a Time That’s Passed
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/09Sep19-Winthrop-Washington-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)When you drive into Wintrhop, Washington…it appears time has passed it by…but a closer look will show you that what…
The Town at the End of the Road
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/08/06Sep19-Winthrop-Washington-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)At one time, this town was the end of the road, with the mighty Cascades a barrier to travel further…
Everything Is For Sale
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/08/05Sep19-Auctioneer-Jared-Miller-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)What’s the most difficult genre of items for an auctioneer to sell? That depends on the auctioneer you ask but…
The Best Auctioneer
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/08/04Sep19-Auctioneer-Jared-Miller-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The chant of an auctioneer – it is the sounds that calls for bids and brings items to their top…
An Iconic Vehicle Modernized
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/08/03Sep19-Mahindra-Roxor.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Some say it was the iconic vehicle of World War II. A vehicle that General Esienhower said was one of…
Listening to the Call of the Wild
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/08/02Sep19-Stuttgart-Arkansas-Ducks.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Every year thousands of people come to Stuttgart, Arkansas to listen to calls from the wild that are worth thousands…
An Organization for Truck Stops
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/08/30Aug19-Deluxe-Truck-Stop-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)There’s an association for just about everything, so it should not be a surprise there is an organization for truck…
