Category: American Countryside
The Halfway Point for Lewis & Clark
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/02Nov23-Fort-Clatsop-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was their goal…yet it was only the half way point of the trip…It was the Pacific Ocean that the…
A Suitable Winter Camp for Lewis & Clark
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/01Nov23-Fort-Clatsop-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)After spotting the Pacific Ocean on November 7th, 1805…Lewis and Clark searched for a suitable location for their winter camp. …
Using a Thousand Dollar Bill to Pay
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/31Oct23-Glurs-Tavern-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)One thousand dollar bills were last printed in 1945 and they were officially discontinued in 1969. You can still find…
The Storied History of Glur’s Tavern in Columbus, Nebraska
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/30Oct23-Glurs-Tavern-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you drove past Glur’s Tavern in Columbus, Nebraska you might not give it a second thought. However, if you…
The Birthplace of Captain Kirk
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/27Oct23-Captain-Kirk-Future-Birthplace.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Over the years we’ve done many stories from towns that are the birthplace of famous people. In fact, just about…
A Truly Special Letter
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/26Oct23-Anne-Frank-Letters-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Not many people write letters these days, opting for emails, texts and the like. But this letter is one that…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…