Posted in American Countryside Indiana Podcast

The Red Skelton Festival

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Red-Skelton-Festival.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)If you go to Vincennes, Indiana this weekend, there’s a good chance you’ll meet a clown.  Actually, there’s a chance…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Ohio Podcast

Hopewell Mounds

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Hopewell-Mounds-2011.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)History on this continent is young when compared to places like Europe, but that mentality is to forget about the…

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Posted in American Countryside Missouri Podcast

Your Own Railroad

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Moberly-Missouri-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Ever dream of owing your own railroad?  Well, now you have the next best thing–you can rent a railroad for…

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The Magic City

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Moberly-Missouri-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Today we welcome our listeners on 1230 KWIX in Moberly, MO.  To visit the radio station there, you’ll need to…

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King City, Missouri’s BIG Pump

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/King-City-Missouri-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)In over 15 years of traveling the countryside, we have yet to feature an attraction from my hometown, the place…

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Settling King City, Missouri

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/King-City-Missouri-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)New York City as the Empire State building, Seattle the Space Needle and for many years, King City, Missouri had…

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Posted in American Countryside baseball Indiana Podcast

From the Hall of Fame to a Wiffle Ball Bat

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/John-Baker-Sports-Memorabilia-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Collecting and selling sports memorabilia can be big business.  John Baker ended up in it somewhat by accident and the…

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Collecting Sports Memorabilia

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/John-Baker-Sports-Memorabilia-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Many of us have enjoyed picking up a ball and glove and playing catch. Now image picking up a ball…

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Race Trials for Automobiles

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/Indy-500-Centennial.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)In the early days of auto building, hundreds of car makers battled for their own slice of the pie. With…

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Posted in American Countryside American Revolution Indiana Podcast

Vincennes Rendevous

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/Vincennes-Rendevous1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)In 1779, soldiers of the American Revolution set foot here to capture lands for the new United States. Over two…

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Posted in American Countryside Illinois Podcast

West of the Mississippi…To Illinois

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/Kaskaskia-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Today we head west of the Mississippi River to the state of Illinois.  Yes, that’s west…..

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The Liberty Bell of the West

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/Kaskaskia-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)The Liberty Bell tolled for freedom in Philadelphia…or was it really in the State of Illinois?

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Carving a Capital from the Wilderness

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/Kaskaskia-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Roll back the clock 250 years and this city’s population might rival some of the largest towns on the east…

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Posted in American Countryside Arkansas Podcast

The Glory Days of Powhatan, Arkansas

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/Powhatan-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Today the town of Powhatan is nearly a ghost town. However, it’s buildings have been preserved and the stories of…

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Powhatan, Arkansas

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/Powatan-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of Powhatan, Arkansas. However, this was once a thriving city with steamboat traffic…

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Sitting Bull

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/Sitting-Bull-2011.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)He is one of the greatest Indian chiefs ever to lead his tribes in peace and battle.  Ironically, two different…

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Collecting Specimens

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/Osteology-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Jay’s father could have scolded him for what he’d unearthed.  Most parents would say, “Put down that filthy thing!”  His…

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A Prisoner of War Reintured

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/Ft-Reno-Oklahoma-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Over 65 years after this Prisoner Of War died in a work camp, his body will be reintured near his…

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Posted in American Countryside Oklahoma Podcast Presidents World War II

One Famous Horse

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/Ft-Reno-Oklahoma-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)At one time this fort raised and trained over 14,000 horses and mules at a time. Many of those animals…

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A Front Porch Presidential Campaign

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/2011-Harding-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)It may seem odd for a presidential candidate to campaign without leaving home. But that’s exactly what this man did–and…

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