http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/28Apr23-Ray-Starlig-NAFTA.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In April 2017, there was debate in the country about exiting the NAFTA trade deal with Canada and Mexico that…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/27Apr23-Grafton-Illinois-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Rose Marie Ritchie has a beautiful location to work right along the Mississippi River.  But in the decades she’s lived…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/26Apr23-Grafton-Illinois-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are many storied rail routes in this nation – some historic, others still operating.  In Grafton, IL you’ll find…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/25Apr23-Viking-Ship-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)On the surface it seemed to be a ludicrous project.  A man with no experience building boats, was going to…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/24Apr23-Viking-Ship-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Robert Asp had a dream to visit Norway someday.  It was, after all, the land where his family traced their…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/21Apr23-Serge-Kreisberge-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine a scene in which a boy is wrenched from a mother’s arms…and is headed for certain death.  No doubt…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/20Apr23-Serge-Kreisberge-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A diet of chocolate and potatoes is probably not the most balanced ration one can eat…but during World War II…it…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/19Apr23-Serge-Kreisberge-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)I occasionally like to go back to our show archives to hear stories that have moved me and many of…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/18Apr23-Serge-Kreisberge-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)His city bounced from one country’s control to another during World War II.  No matter who was in control…this young…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/17Apr23-Dave-Dahl-Diamon-D-Saddle-Shop-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When Dave Dahl turns on the cowboy channel to watch a rodeo, there’s a good chance he’s going to see…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/14Apr23-Dave-Dahl-Diamon-D-Saddle-Shop-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes a business begins without you realizing you were beginning a business.  That is perhaps the case for Dave Dahl. …

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/13Apr23-Dakota-Emporium-Trading-Post-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Successful businesses have to change with the times.  Or do they?  In some ways, this store is doing the same…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/12Apr23-Dakota-Emporium-Trading-Post-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Take a walk around the small downtown area of Ft. Pierre, South Dakota and you’ll find a place called the…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/11Apr23-Dewbery-Tulip-Farm-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine a crop that might take you twelve days, with twelve people to get planted.  This family has come up…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/10Apr23-Dewbery-Tulip-Farm-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This old tobacco farm has been in the Johnson family for about a century now.  The tobacco is long gone,…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/03/07Apr23-Tennessee-River-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You could say it was the bus line of the 1800s.  A network of transportation that could take you just…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/03/06Apr23-Tennessee-River-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Necessity is the mother of invention.  When the Civil War began, it was relatively easy to sink wooden ships, so…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/03/05Apr23-Tennessee-River-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Each year, thousands of people will travel to southern Tennessee to see the famous national battleground at Shiloh.  What most…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/03/04Apr23-Lees-Summit-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When you hear the name Cole Younger, you probably think of an outlaw holding up banks and living a life…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/03/03Apr23-Lees-Summit-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was known as the Burnt District – a place where residents were forced to leave because there was no…