Category: American Countryside
President’s Week 2013: Calvin Coolidge
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/22Feb13-Coolidge-Inauguration.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)It all happened in the middle of the night. The citizens of the United States went to bed on August…
President’s Week 2013: Teddy Roosevelt
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/21Feb13-Roosevelt-Inauguration.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)He is one of four faces on Mt. Rushmore…but what you may not know is exactly how he became president….
President’s Week 2013: Grover Cleveland
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/20Feb13-Grover-Cleveland.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)James Buchanan was the only U.S. president to never marry, but this president was also a bachelor when he arrived…
President’s Week 2013: Ulysses Grant
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/19Feb13-Ulysses-Grant-Birthplace.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Presidential birthplaces are visited by many tourists each year. But no home may have quite the story as this small…
President’s Week 2013: Thomas Jefferson
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/18Feb13-Thomas-Jefferson-Agriculture.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)His face is one of four carved into Mt. Rushmore…but few know the story of how this well known president…
Mastodon State Historic Site
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/15Feb13-Mastadon-State-Historic-Site.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Imagine you found the bones of an animal and had little idea exactly what you had found. Now imagine making…
Jay Eudy’s Pedal Tractors
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/14Feb13-Jay-Eudy-Pedal-Tractors-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Lots of kids love riding a pedal tractor and these days there are plenty of colors, sizes and models to…
Looking For Someone to Paint Tractors
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/13Feb13-Jay-Eudy-Pedal-Tractors-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)It all began with some local implement dealers who needed a young man who could paint tractors. When they asked…
The Role of Lincoln’s Parents
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/12Feb13-Abraham-Lincoln-Log-Cabin-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)We may remember that President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday is February 12th. But we often forget the important role of his…
Abraham Lincoln’s Step Mother
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/11Feb13-Abraham-Lincoln-Log-Cabin-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Abraham Lincoln lost his mother to a sudden illness when he was just nine years old. Within a year his…
The History of Cereal
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/08Feb13-Kelloggs-Cereal.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Grocery stores devote plenty of shelf space to cereals, but the historic route those breakfast foods took to get there…
The First Nationally Televised State Funeral
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/07Feb13-Sam-Rayburn-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)In November of 1961, this small town in north Texas was overwhelmed with people coming to pay their respects to…
The Power of Speaker of the House
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/06Feb13-Sam-Rayburn-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Many governors, senators and representatives may aspire to one day become president of the United States. However, this man believed…
Sam Rayburn
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/05Feb13-Sam-Rayburn-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)In Bonham, Texas you can find the boyhood home of Sam Rayburn. The small town is also host to the…
A Famous Tow Truck
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/04Feb13-Four-Women-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Today we say hello to our listeners on 690 KGGF in Coffeyville, Kansas. Listeners there live in the vicinity of…
Bringing A Gas Station Back to Life
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/01Feb13-Four-Women-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 1.4MB)We’ve all seen those small abandoned gas stations along minor and major highways alike. They hearken to the days of…
Thousand Foot Long Docks
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/31Jan13-Two-Harbors-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)They are some of the largest boat docks you’ll ever see. Not mere spots on a lake from which to…
Two Harbors
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/30Jan13-Two-Harbors-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)Today Duluth, Minnesota and Superior, Wisconsin are major shipping points on Lake Superior. However, turn back the clock a century…
Mine Creek
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/29Jan13-Mine-Creek-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)It was a last ditch effort for the south to take Missouri and upend President Lincoln’s plans for reelection. In…
Marais des Cygnes Massacre
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/28Jan13-Mine-Creek-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)There had long been disturbances along Missouri’s border with Kansas in the years leading up to the Civil War. However,…
