Category: American Countryside
New Hampshire Primaries at the Town and Country Motor Inn
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/08/Town-and-Country-Inn-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 953.7KB)Many hotels host important guests…but Scott Labnon’s family owned property is guaranteed to see plenty of secret service and presidential…
The Town and Country Motor Inn
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/08/Town-and-Country-Inn-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 952.2KB)The Northeastern United State is home to many long time, family owned resort motels. One of the most famous properties…
Cleveland, Ohio
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/08/Cleveland-2009.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)It was once a place that served as the punch line to jokes. Some of those jokes are still around,…
Hatch Chili
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/08/Hatch-Chili-2009.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.4MB) If you play with fire you’re liable to get burned. But on Jim Lidle’s farm, fire is what they…
German Prisoners of War Going to Church
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/07/John-Fenzell-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:06 — 1.9MB)Sunday was a day of worship in Hampshire, Illinois…both for the American residents and their friends, the German POWs. The…
Learning English from a German POW
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/07/John-Fenzell-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)When John Fenzell was struggling with English at his Illinois elementary school, he got a tutor…a tutor that just happened…
Delivering the Paper to a German POW Camp
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/07/John-Fenzell-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)John Fenzell, like many young boys, delivered papers growing up. However, some of his customers happened to be German POWs…
Midwestern POW Camps in World War II
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/07/John-Fenzell-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 1.9MB)During World War II, young working men left the Midwest to fight for their country. In some cases, it was…
The Fitzgerald and Kennedy Families
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/28Jul09-JFK-Birthplace-2.mp3Podcast: Download (1.9MB)There was no doubt in Fitz’s mind…Joe was not the man for his daughter. The story of what happened when they married anyway…
JFK’s Birthplace
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/07/27Jul09-JFK-Birthplace-11.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 1.9MB)Beal Street looks to be just another street in suburban Boston, but one house here is special…Our features this week…
A History of Voting
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/07/24Jul09-Voting-20091.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 954.7KB)This country has had close elections and we can certainly find examples of disputed elections around the world. So, today,…
Seeking Refuge from Chicago’s Fire
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/07/23Jul09-Chicago-Fire-31.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Bells rang the warning. Prison cells were opened to allow inmates to save their own lives ahead of the coming…
The Great Chicago Fire
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/07/22Jul09-Chicago-Fire-21.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.9MB)The fire was moving quickly. Some thought the river would offer protection, but soon it was clear that only Lake…
A Cow and a Fire
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/07/Chicago-Fire-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 953.1KB)No doubt, she is one of the most famous cows in history…but is she really to blame for the problems…
Eisenhower’s Birthplace
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/07/Eisenhower-Birthplace.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)This president was born in Texas but always claimed Kansas as his home. The story as well as all of…
Dairy Farmers Working Together (Part 2)
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Dairy-Farmers-Working-Together-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)We occasionally bring you a feature here on the American Countryside we call food fight…A story about the challenge for…
Dairy Farmers Working Together (Part 1)
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Dairy-Farmers-Working-Together-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)We continue our trip in Vermont this week…looking at the importance of dairy farms in our nation. We travel extensively…
More Cow Power
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Cow-Power-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 958.2KB)It’s called Cow Power…a program that producers renewable energy from diary cattle. It’s such a good idea in fact, Vermont…
Cow Power
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Cow-Power-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Vermont’s dairy farms are truly a treasure. Not only do they produce important ag products…but a program called Cow Power…
Mastadon Park
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Maston-Park-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 953.3KB)Imagine you unearthed the bones of an animal and had little idea of what you found. Now imagine making up…