Category: American Countryside
The Mystery of the Ruby Red Slippers
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/12Sep25-Judy-Garland-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)One of the most visited exhibits at the Smithsonian Institution is the red slippers worn by Dorthy in the Wizard…
Known for One Role
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/11Sep25-Judy-Garland-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes celebrities in showbiz are known by one particular role they played, no matter the entirety of their life’s work. …
Frances Ethel Gumm
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/10Sep25-Judy-Garland-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of Frances Ethel Gumm. You know her by a different name and I’m…
The Pebble Hill Plantation
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/09Sep25-Pebble-Hill-Plantation-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You know you have quite a farm and mansion when the stables are many times larger, and nicer, than many…
The Ownership Change of an Antebellum Home
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/08Sep25-Pebble-Hill-Plantation-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You can still find several antebellum homes scattered throughout the southern United States. While this home has similar roots, it…
350 Miles of Tunnels Underground
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/08/05Sep25-Good-Enough-Mine-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Not many people set out to own a historic gold and silver mine. That was the case for Andre, but…
The Good Enough Mine
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/08/04Sep25-Good-Enough-Mine-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the first miners hit veins of ore here, they knew it was “good enough” to open a profitable mine. …
What Was Known as Goose Flats
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/08/03Sep25-Good-Enough-Mine-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Not many folks have heard of Goose Flats, Arizona. After all, the most exciting thing in Goose Flats was the…
The Giant Title Holder
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/08/02Sep25-Alaska-Vegetable-Grower-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Scott Robb holds many world records. That fact makes him a well-recognized man among Alaskan farmers and among those who…
Breaking a Century-Old Record
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/08/01Sep25-Alaska-Vegetable-Grower-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine a record that stood for over a century. That’s quite a mark to be broken, but today, Scott Robb…
More Hours to Get Things Grown
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/08/29Aug25-Alaska-Vegetable-Grower-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes you might wish you just had more hours of the day to get things done. For a portion of…
Along the Niabrara River
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/08/28Aug25-Ainsworth-Nebraska-History-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It is a unique and somewhat remote stretch of river one can float or canoe. For years ranchers knew of…
Setting Up a New High School
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/08/27Aug25-Ainsworth-Nebraska-History-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Over a century ago, it was common to have one room school houses to educate rural children through the 8th…
The Millie Lacs Trading Post
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/08/26Aug25-Mille-Lacs-Lake-Trading-Post-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The western frontier was noted to have many trading posts, but the one you’ll find here has over a century…
Following a Premonition to Move West
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/08/25Aug25-Mille-Lacs-Lake-Trading-Post-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s one of the largest lakes in the state of Minnesota, and it became the place of settlement for a…
Scissors the Hog
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/08/22Aug25-Scissors-Hog-House-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He was probably the most valuable hog of his day. His worth was measured in extraordinary sums of money, yet…
A Champion in the Showring
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/08/21Aug25-Scissors-Hog-House-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He was a champion in the show ring and his fame grew far beyond farm country. In fact, he was…
The Royal Gorge
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/08/20Aug25-Royal-Gorge-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)For over seven decades, this bridge was a record setter, the highest suspension bridge in the world. It continues to…
Amazed by the Natural Beauty
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/08/19Aug25-Royal-Gorge-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Thousands of people still drive to this location to be amazed by the natural beauty of this place. It makes…
Quincy’s Coca-Cola Millionaires
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/08/18Aug25-Quincy-Coca-Cola.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the Great Depression era, Quincy, Florida was a town of nearly 4000 residents. Although times were tough, the advice…
