Posted in American Countryside Iowa

A Valuable Letter from a Penpal

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/25Oct23-Anne-Frank-Letters-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Did you ever save a letter that was important to you?  This lady did.  It was a nice letter from…

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A Penpal in Danville, Iowa

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/24Oct23-Anne-Frank-Letters-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Way back when I was in school our classes sometimes had penpals.  That was the case for this school in…

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Posted in American Countryside Minnesota

The Lower Sioux Agency

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/23Oct23-Morton-Minnesota-Lower-Sioux-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s called the Lower Sioux Agency.  You can still find a few of the historic buildings near Morton, Minnesota.  The…

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The Lower Sioux

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/20Oct23-Morton-Minnesota-Lower-Sioux-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)As pioneers of Europeans decent moved westward, the once large spaces that many Native American nations once called home were…

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Salt River Bay St. Croix

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/19Oct23-Salt-River-Bay-St-Croix-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Columbus reached the Americas in 1492.  He returned to Spain and put together a much larger party of ships and…

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Christopher Columbus in U.S. Terriotry

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/18Oct23-Salt-River-Bay-St-Croix-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…

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The Easternmost Point in U.S. Territory

Today we head to the easternmost point in United States territory.  It’s a place that was inhabited for over 1500 years before Columbus ever showed…

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Posted in American Countryside Minnesota

The Quack Museum

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/16Oct23-Quackery-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We’ve all heard that some things are just too good to be true.  That’s in a sense the theme to…

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Posted in American Countryside Minnesota

The Minnesota Hoosiers Story

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/13Oct23-Marshall-Minnesota-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most of us are familiar with the movie Hoosiers, the story of a small Indiana school that wins the state…

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The Story of Those Yellow Trucks

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/12Oct23-Marshall-Minnesota-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Depending on where you live, you may know this company, not by where it is located but rather by where…

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Industry Impacting Southwest Minnesota

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/11Oct23-Marshall-Minnesota-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The land that surrounds a town often has a big impact on the types of industries that will spring up…

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Posted in American Countryside Puerto Rico

San Juan Historic Site

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/10Oct23-San-Juan-Puerto-Rico-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 sentrys who scanned…

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Amazing History in Puerto Rico

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/09Oct23-San-Juan-Puerto-Rico-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you are looking for one of the first places Europeans explorers touched land in what is today the United…

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Posted in American Countryside Kansas

Kafir Corn

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/06Oct23-Kafir-Corn-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ve probably never heard of Kafir Corn.  However, turn back the clock a century and you may have been hearing…

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Drought and Grasshoppers

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/05Oct23-Kafir-Corn-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The first settlers to this region began to farm the land, but drought and grasshoppers made life miserable for most. …

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Near the Santa Fe Trail

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/04Oct23-Coranodo-Quivera-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The early trails that moved settlers from east to west often charted courses that helped reduce the number of obstacles…

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Searching for Gold in Kansas

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/03Oct23-Coranodo-Quivera-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you are a Spanish explorer searching the New World for gold, the place you’d come look of course would…

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The Quivira of Kansas

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/02Oct23-Coranodo-Quivera-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The area around Lyons, Kansas in the central part of the Sunflower State may appear to be sparsely populated by…

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Posted in American Countryside Montana

The Backcountry Horsemen

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/29Sep23-Columbia-Falls-Montana-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They are called the Back Country Horseman.  Their work is something that may have impacted you and you never realized…

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Packing Explosives to Open the Trail

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/28Sep23-Columbia-Falls-Montana-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Placing explosives on the backs of mules sounds like an unusual job, but it was just part of the work…

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