http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/08/11Aug14-Artichokes-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes it’s hard to get kids to eat their vegetables.  Now imagine the vegetable looks like a hand grenade and people…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/08Aug14-Iditarod-Headquarters-Reddington.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Some sports not only require thousands of hours of training, they also require a hefty financial investment. For those who…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/07Aug14-Home-on-the-Range-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)In the 1930s a cowboy song began to get quite a bit of air time on radio stations.  But suddenly…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/06Aug14-Home-on-the-Range-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The song, “Home of the Range,” turns 140 years old this year.  It might not sound like a big deal, but…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/05Aug14-Home-on-the-Range-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Brewster Higley didn’t think much about the poem he’d written.  In fact, he stuffed it in a book and hadn’t looked…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/04Aug14-Home-on-the-Range-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)On the surface, the story doesn’t seem too different from other settlers stories of the late 1800s.  A man from Indiana…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/01Aug14-Niagra-Falls-NY-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Don Lokor is asked many questions about Niagara Falls.  He is considered the resident historian of the national landmark.  The…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/31Jul14-Niagra-Falls-NY-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Before Yellowstone was ever made the first national park, Niagara Falls became the nation’s first state park.  The thundering waters…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/30Jul14-Farmland-Movie.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Most farmers would not consider themselves movie stars.  This Minnesota hog farmer certainly doesn’t.  However, that hasn’t stopped him from…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/29Jul14-RAM-Truck-CEO-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What influences someone to buy a new car?  Is it great wealth, cool styles, or maybe a clunker that bit…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/28Jul14-RAM-Truck-CEO-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s been dubbed the Great Recession…the economic downturn of that began in 2009.  One of the industries hardest hit were…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/25Jul14-Frank-Phillips-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)When Frank bought a plane he needed a hangar in which to park it. Soon the plane wasn’t the only…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/24Jul14-Frank-Phillips-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)The president of this oil company was looking for a place to entertain business leaders from the east coast and…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/23Jul14-Pikes-Peak-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Today we may rely on the latest advancements in science and medicine to help cure disease.  Of course, in the…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/22Jul14-Pikes-Peak-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ve perhaps never heard of James’ Peak.  It more accurate to say you’ve heard of the mountain, but you simply…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/21Jul14-Pikes-Peak-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)As Lewis and Clark headed west and north in 1803 to explore the newly acquire Louisiana Purchase, another explorer headed…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/07/18Jul14-Hell-Michigan.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We go to great lengths to gather the stories you here on this program…and this time we literally went to…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/07/17Jul14-Elwood-Haynes.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Who invented the first automobile?  You might be surprised that it wasn’t Henry Ford…but this man from Kokomo, Indiana…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/07/16Jul14-Bents-Old-Fort-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was perhaps the most important stop on the entire length of the Santa Fe Trail. However, under two decades…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/07/15Jul14-Bents-Old-Fort-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Today you can travel down just about any interstate highway in America and find plenty of truck stops. Now turn…