http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/04/21Apr14-Birmingham-Childrens-March-5.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1963 this city’s police force brutally attacked Gwen Webb.  Just over a decade later, she was a member of…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/04/18Apr14-Birmingham-Childrens-March-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In May of 1963 hundreds of Birmingham school students were jailed for participating in Civil Rights marches.  There were so…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/04/17Apr14-Birmingham-Childrens-March-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The images from Birmingham were difficult to watch.  Kids under the age of 18 where being knocked off their feet…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/04/16Apr14-Birmingham-Childrens-March-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Gwen Webb was a high school student in one of Birmingham, Alabama’s segregated public schools.  In early May 1963 she…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/04/15Apr14-Birmingham-Childrens-March-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It is said that in the early 1960s, there was no large city more racially segregated that Birmingham, Alabama.  It…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/14Apr14-Museum-of-Osteology-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s called the Museum of Osteology.  It’s a one-of-a-kind place.  But many of you are asking what’s osteology?

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/11Apr14-Museum-of-Osteology-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Jay’s father could have scolded him for what he’d unearthed.  Most parents would say, “Put down that filthy thing!”  His…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/10Apr14-Brookfield-Missouri-Mailboxes.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Mailboxes come in many shapes, colors and sizes.  But the mailboxes given as gifts every May in Brookfield, Missouri are…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/09Apr14-Brookfield-MO-John-Wilkes-Booth-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Everyone knows John Wilkes Booth as the assassin of President Lincoln.  However, before his deadly deed in April 1865, he…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/08Apr14-Brookfield-MO-John-Wilkes-Booth-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)John was a well known actor who traveled the nation in a variety of productions.  In fact, a journey to…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/07Apr14-Gettysburg-Shriver-House-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The numbers of dead and wounded soldiers and horses overwhelmed the population of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in 1863.  It was up…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/04Apr14-Gettysburg-Shriver-House-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most people who visit Gettysburg, Pennsylvania tour the battlefield and learn about the fighting that took place in the first…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/03Apr14-Gettysburg-Shriver-House-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the battle began here in Gettysburg, Hettie Shriver and her two young daughters left town and went to stay with…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/02Apr14-Eisenhower-Farm-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you’ve spent much time around cattle, there’s a good chance you’ve been kicked.  The right blow can put a…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/01Apr14-Eisenhower-Farm-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It may be an overstatement to proclaim that a herd of cattle helped thaw the cold war.  However a visit…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/31Mar14-Eisenhower-Farm-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many U.S. presidents grew up on a farm.  However, their duties as chief executive often took them away from rural…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/28Mar14-Sitting-Bull.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He is one of the greatest Indian chiefs ever to lead his tribes in peace and battle.  Ironically, two different…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/27Mar14-Brookings-South-Dakota-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This hamburger shop has been around longer that just about everyone living in Brookings, South Dakota.  When you’ve been in…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/26Mar14-Brookings-South-Dakota-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Just about every town has a namesake.  Perhaps it’s a president, general or early settler whose name was chosen to identify…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/03/25Mar14-Devils-Gulch-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)After a failed bank robbery attempt in Northfield, Minnesota, the James gang headed west toward the Dakota Territory.  Near what…