http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/26Jan16-Medicine-Lodge-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A three-day event dedicated to an old peace treaty may sound a bit odd.  However, this town’s event draws thousands…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/25Jan16-Medicine-Lodge-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:03 — 2.1MB)About as long as there have been banks, there have been bank robberies.  The one that took place in Medicine…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/21Jan16-College-of-the-Ozarks-Milam-Smith-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)Today we hear a lot about the rising costs of higher education.  While that may be true, students here have…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/20Jan16-Carry-Nation-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This lady was known to back up her words with her hatchet.  And that hatchet is still well known over…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/19Jan16-Carry-Nation-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:03 — 2.1MB)If you attended David Nation’s church in Medicine Lodge, Kansas, many would say the real sermon began when David’s wife…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/18Jan16-Medicine-Lodge-History.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In south central Kansas you’ll find a place long important to Native Americans – a place where they and later…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/15Jan16-Mendenhall-Plantation-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In the heart of the south, there was one Quaker community determined to not only bring an end to slavery,…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/22Jan16-College-of-the-Ozarks-Milam-Smith-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)I recently visited a college campus unique from many others.  It’s a place where students work on campus to pay…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/14Jan16-Mendenhall-Plantation-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)We might imagine that prior to the Civil War, most large farming operations in the south used slave labor.  Today,…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/13Jan16-Mendenhall-Plantation-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Major highways can be a very important way to get people to your business.  What do you do when your…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/12Jan16-Ralph-Foster-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)What is the most famous truck in the nation?  There are a variety of answers, but no doubt this old…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/11Jan16-Ralph-Foster-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)At one point, this museum might have begun to look a bit like your grandmother’s attic – full of just…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/08Jan16-Crowleys-Ridge.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Mississippi River has formed many new channels over the centuries. One of those old routes places it many miles…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/07Jan16-Jerry-Armstrong-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The movie “Glory Road” shares the story of five black basketball players from Texas Western who beat an all-white Kentucky…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/06Jan16-Jerry-Armstrong-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Jerry Armstrong was a farm kid from Eagleville, Missouri.  He excelled at basketball and took a chance to play Division…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/05Jan16-Jerry-Armstrong-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Depending on your age, you either lived through or have heard about the racial tensions of the 1960s.  While prejudices…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/04Jan16-Jerry-Armstrong-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When a small town school produces a big-time athlete, the entire community might rally around them.   Jerry was one such…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/01Jan16-Best-of-2015-Edmund-Fitzgerald.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)It’s a mystery that is now 40 years old…a mystery that lives on through a song that tells the story…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/31Dec15-Best-of-2015-Tombstone.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:56 — 2.0MB)When this man set out to find his fortune he was told he’d need to dig his grave when he…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/30Dec15-Best-of-2015-Rex-Hudler.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today’s sports stars often have high powered agents who negotiate their contracts.  However, this first round draft pick simply turned…