Author: Tom
A Community Valuing Those Who Passed Through
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/28Jan19-Aberdeen-Pheasant-Canteen-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was a tremendous meal that had to be prepared, every day, for about three years. And it was all…
A Stop in Aberdeen, South Dakota
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/25Jan19-Aberdeen-Pheasant-Canteen-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When the Unites States when to war in the 1940, thousands of troops began to criss-cross the country headed to…
The Home of a Founding Father
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/24Jan19-John-Jay-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Perhaps you’ve visited places like Mt. Vernon and Monticello, homes of founding fathers Washington and Jefferson. If you travel to…
A Witness to History
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/23Jan19-John-Jay-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine being pregnant, enduring a shipwreck, being away from your home for several years, and then, being present to see…
The First Supreme Court Chief Justice
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/22Jan19-John-Jay-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Who was the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court? It was a position this man coveted, until he…
The Forgotten Founding Father
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/21Jan19-John-Jay-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some have called him the forgotten founding father. Have you too forgotten about the man who was president before George…
The University of Arizona’s Old Main
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/18Jan19-University-of-Arizona-Old-Main.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When you walk across the center of this large university campus as I did, you’ll find a wide, permanent line…
When Pigs and Cows are ‘New’
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/17Jan19-Goodyear-Arizona-FFA.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine a school teaching agriculture in a place where few students have seen a farm animal. It’s a unique setting…
KINEKS
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/16Jan19-Jeffrey-Thimgan-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s called “KINEKS.” It’s an acronym for positive personal characteristics each of us should possess and it’s the name of…
A Young Man of Influence
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/15Jan19-Jeffrey-Thimgan-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There is probably someone in each of our lives that truly inspires us. Jeffrey Thimgan was one such young man. …
A Battle in Kansas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/14Jan19-John-Brown-Osawatamie-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)The shots at Ft. Sumter in April of 1861 are often considered the first military action of the Civil War. …
John Brown: The Early Years
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/11Jan19-John-Brown-Osawatamie-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In the years just ahead of the Civil War, thousands of people came to Kansas ahead of a critical vote…
The Elephant Hotel
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/10Jan19-Elephant-Hotel-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When you run across a building named the “Elephant Hotel,” well, there’s probably going to be an interesting story behind…
A Time Before Zoos and Circuses
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/09Jan19-Elephant-Hotel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Just about everyone one of us has visited a zoo and seen a circus. Now let me take you to…
The Elephant That Changed the Course of American History
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/08Jan19-Elephant-Hotel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB) It all began with a man who wanted to farm, not with a team of horses or mules, but…
Fort Bridger
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/07Jan19-Fort-Bridger-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)This fort serviced the Pony Express, the Oregon Trail, and was around so long it even slept travelers by car. …
New Ownership of a Fort
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/12/04Jan19-Fort-Bridger-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You usually don’t think of a fort coming under new ownership. But that’s what happened to this site that bears…
One of the Best Known Mountain Men of the 1800s
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/12/03Jan19-Fort-Bridger-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He was one of the best known mountain men of the early 19th century. A man who was skilled in…
Remembering Fred Mares
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/12/02Jan19-Remembering-Fred-Mares.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Image a man who speaks over ten languages, can play multiple musical instruments and serenade customers with his wonderful voice. …
Best of 2018: The Hartsdale Pet Cemetary
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/12/01Jan19-Best-of-2018-Hartsdale-Pet-Cemetary.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Ed Martin Jr. has helped bury dogs, cats, birds, guinea pigs and he’s even heard of a lion cub on…
