Category: American Countryside
Best of 2013: A Viking Ship
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/30Dec13-Best-of-2013-Viking-Ship.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)On the surface it seemed to be a ludicrous project. A man with no experience building boats, was going to…
Best of 2013: Arecibo Observatory
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/27Dec13-Best-of-2013-Arecibo-Observatory.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)On occasion you may here a story about an asteroid making a close pass to our planet. So who tells…
The Best of 2013: Antelope Island
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/26Dec13-Best-of-2013-Antelope-Island.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Every fall there is a round-up of the herd here just outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. You can even…
The Only Noel
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/25Dec13-Noel-Missouri.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)At Christmas we may sing, “The First Noel.” In the United States, this is the “Only Noel.” Confused? Join me…
Twas the Night Before Christmas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/24Dec13-Night-Before-Christmas.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)We know the words of “’twas the night before Christmas;” words that helped solidify the image of Santa over 200…
The Most Unique Business on the National Register of Historic Places
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/23Dec13-Miss-Lauras-Bordello-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)It may be one of the most unique businesses to ever be placed on the National Register of Historic Places. …
Miss Laura’s Little Business
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/20Dec13-Miss-Lauras-Bordello-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)Laura Ziegler came to Ft. Smith, Arkansas from Vermont. She was only in this city for about a decade, then…
Keeping Ahead of the Beverage of the Day
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/19Dec13-Prohibition-Party-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)Before there was a Got Milk slogan…some dairymen used an amendment to the constitution to help keep their product ahead…
The Prohibition Party
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/18Dec13-Prohibition-Party-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)You may have thought this political party died when alcohol became legal again back in the 1930s. You’ll be intrigued…
One of The Largest Sheep Export Cities in the World
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/17Dec13-Kethchum-Sheep.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)When the silver ran out, the sheep moved in–thousands of them, in fact. This place became one of the largest…
A POW-built Nativity
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/16Dec13-Algona-Iowa-Nativity.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)It was Christmas 1945. German POWs at Camp Algona in Algona, Iowa would be returning to Europe the next year….
The Heisman Runner-Up
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/13Dec13-Leroy-Keyes.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)In 1968, O.J Simpson won the Heisman Trophy, but it was this man who was runner-up in the Heisman balloting…
That Will Be a Half-Cent, Mr. President
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/12Dec13-Lincoln-Pittsfield-Illinois-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Toll roads have been around as long as the nation. Today those tolls are often paid on multi-lane turnpikes, often…
The Cannon That Fired Too Soon
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/11Dec13-Lincoln-Pittsfield-Illinois-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When you’re in Pittsfield, Illinois, enjoy the chance to drive around the city and listen to stories on your car…
A Frequent Visitor
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/10Dec13-Lincoln-Pittsfield-Illinois-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we say hello to out listeners on WBBA in Pittsfield, Illinois. Listeners there know that just over a century…
Keith’s Cafe
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/09Dec13-Keiths-Cafe.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In Memphis, Missouri, there’s a café where great food has been served for about 65 years now. This is the…
The County Seat War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/06Dec13-Kansas-Oil-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)A county seat is an important place. It is after all the place were legal papers are stored, trials are…
Boom or Bust
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/05Dec13-Kansas-Oil-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.7MB)Oil, gas and minerals often bring towns periods of boom and bust. Each new discovery brings a swell of workers…
The Kansas Oil Boom
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/04Dec13-Kansas-Oil-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.7MB)You may not think of this state as a top producing oil area. However, turn back the clock about a…
The Denver Sleigh Works
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/03Dec13-Denver-Sleigh-Works.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Santa needs a sleigh to make deliveries around the world. This man makes sure he will never run out of…
