Category: American Countryside
Columbus’ Return in 1493
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/14Oct13-St-Crois-Salt-River-Bay-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Columbus reached the Americas in 1492. He returned to Spain and put together a much larger party of ships and…
In Fourteen Hundred and Ninety Two…
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/11Oct13-St-Crois-Salt-River-Bay-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may remember that Columbus sailed the ocean blue in fourteen hundred and ninety-two. But what else do you know…
1500 Years Before Christopher Columbus
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/10Oct13-St-Crois-Salt-River-Bay-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Today we head to the easternmost point in United States territory. It’s a place that was inhabited for over 1500…
Standing Watch
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/09Oct13-San-Juan-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This impressive fort has stood watch over the Atlantic for nearly 400 years. For some of those sentry’s who scanned…
A Caribbean Getaway
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/08Oct13-San-Juan-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you are looking for a fun and relatively inexpensive Caribbean getaway, without leaving the U.S., you might consider heading…
Alibates Flint
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/07Oct13-Alibates-Flint.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It’s called Alibates flint, and this spot in the panhandle of Texas is the only place in the world where…
An Unexpected Surprise
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/04Oct13-Pierce-Allman-JFK-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)All this week we’ve heard from Pierce Allman, a Dallas broadcaster who witnessed and reported on the JFK assassination. The…
First Hand Accounts of the Kennedy Assassination
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/03Oct13-Pierce-Allman-JFK-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)One of the first broadcasters on the air with news of the shooting of President Kennedy was Pierce Allman. He…
A Reporter on the Biggest Story of All
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/02Oct13-Pierce-Allman-JFK-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Pierce Allman was a broadcaster and manager at WFFA, a radio and television station in Dallas. In the fall of…
On the Scene of An Assassination
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/01Oct13-Pierce-Allman-JFK-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1963, Pierce Allman was manager of programming and production for WFAA radio in Dallas, Texas. When President Kennedy came…
Hiding Cash in a Unique Way
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/30Sep13-Waldo-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When Union and Confederate sympathizers threatened to take this banker’s money, he did what any logical person would do–he dressed…
Where’s Waldo?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/27Sep13-Waldo-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A few years ago, you may remember the popular Where’s Waldo books that had kids searching for a man hidden…
Kafir Corn
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/26Sep13-El-Dorado-Kansas-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)You’ve probably never heard of Kafir Corn. However, turn back the clock a century and you may have been hearing…
A Change of Fortune
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/25Sep13-El-Dorado-Kansas-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)The first settlers to this region began to farm the land, but drought and grasshoppers made life miserable for most….
Teaching Small Farming Methods That Work
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/24Sep13-Free-Range-Chickens.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When Herman’s son brought home an antiquated animal production book that he happened to find in his high school ag…
Bringing the Pheasant Home
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/23Sep13-Pheasant-Aircraft-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)Dr. Larry Wiggins had always hoped his hometown would be able to bring home a Pheasant airplane. The aircraft was…
The Pheasant Aircraft Company
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/20Sep13-Pheasant-Aircraft-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)It was a promising young business – the Pheasant Aircraft Company. In the early days of aviation, a well known…
A Flying Pheasant
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/19Sep13-Pheasant-Airplane-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)If you said you were looking for a pheasant you would probably be looking for a bird. But in the…
The Tallest Lady in the World
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/18Sep13-Ella-Ewing-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Folks in Scotland County, Missouri will tell you that their hometown girl, Ella Ewing, was the tallest lady in the…
The Story of Ella Ewing
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/17Sep13-Ella-Ewing-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Today we say hello to our listeners on KMEM in Memphis, Missouri. Folks there know of a lady named Ella,…