Category: American Countryside
The Little Jail In Gardner, Illinois
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/31May13-Gardner-Illinois-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)The need for maximum security prisons is an unfortunate reality of life. On the other end of the spectrum is…
A Stop In Pontiac, Illinois
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/30May13-Pontiac-Illinois-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Pontiac, Illinois is an interesting mix of the old and new. It’s a place that’s worked to preserve its heritage,…
A Mark on the Door Frame
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/29May13-Pontiac-Illinois-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Many a family has recorded the heights of their growing children by placing a mark on a door or doorpost…
Pontiac, Illinois’ Route 66 Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/28May13-Pontiac-Illinois-Route-66-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Pontiac, Illinois is home to a Hall of Fame for a very famous American road. The museum itself is very…
Dinosaur Valley Park
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/27May13-Dinosaur-Valley-2013.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)The animal tracks are three foot in width–and they are real–not made by an imaginary bigfoot, but plain to see…
The Higgins Memorial
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/24May13-Higgins-Memorial.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Every Memorial Day we remember are family and friends who have passed. Many communities will also remember their veterans and…
Two Times A Prisoner of War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/23May13-Rippavilla-Plantation-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Imagine being taken a prisoner of war, not once but twice and while you were away from home, the opposing…
Not Thrilled With a Choice of Spouse
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/22May13-Rippavilla-Plantation-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)There are times when a family is not thrilled with a son’s choice of a spouse. There may be many…
A Lost Colony
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/21May13-RoanokeFtRiley.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s known as the lost colony of Roanoke–a settlement of English that vanished between 1587 and 1590 in what is…
The Last Battle of the Civil War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/20May13-Brownsville-TX-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Where was the last battle of the Civil War waged? Few can answer that questions correctly…and the battlefield is far…
Brownsville, Texas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/17May13-Brownsville-TX-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Just up river from the mouth of the Rio Grande river you will find sister cities that have played a…
The Sheriff Bufford Pusser Festival
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/05/16May13-Bufford-Pusser-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)This weekend in Adamsville, Tennessee, the annual Sheriff Bufford Pusser Festival will be held. It’s the 25th such event and…
Carrying a Stick Instead of a Weapon
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/15May13-Bufford-Pusser-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)This week we’re in Adamsville, Tennessee, former home of famous lawman Bufford Pusser. The famous lawman from Walking Tall was…
The Life of Sheriff Buford Pusser
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/05/14May13-Bufford-Pusser-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)If you’ve ever seen the movie “Walking Tall” then you know part of the story of Sheriff Buford Pusser. He…
Protecting a President
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/05/13May13-Presidential-Limo-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)After delivering a speech at the Washington Hilton Hotel, President Ronald Regan was hit by a bullet fired by John…
President Kennedy’s Bubbletop Car
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/10May13-Presidential-Limo-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)You may have heard people say that President Kennedy would have never been assassinated in Dallas if he ordered the…
A Luxurious and Secure Automobile Collection
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/09May13-Presidential-Limo-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Today we begin a three part series on one of the most luxurious and secure automobiles in America – the…
A Great Collection of Buildings
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/08May13-Henry-Ford-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)The birthplace of America is often considered to be Independence Hall, the site of the signing of the Declaration of…
Three Men – One Amazing Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/07May13-Henry-Ford-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Edison, Ford and Firestone. They are some of the best known inventors and businessmen of the 20th century. But not…
Lava Beds National Monument
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/06May13-Lava-Tubes-National-Park.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)In this barren stretch of the West, you can find the landscape scarred by the lava from thousands of years…
