Category: American Countryside
KORN Radio Celebrates 75 Years
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/06Jul22-KORN-Radio-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You know your station has hit the big time when it’s call letters are used for a fictional radio station…
Corny Call Letters
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/05Jul22-KORN-Radio-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The radio business has lots of four-letter words. The words I’m talking about are the four call letters by which…
When Did It Become the Liberty Bell?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/04Jul22-Liberty-Bell.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)July 4th, 1776. It’s Independence Day in the United States and one of the symbols of our freedom is the…
Who Led the Battle at Gettysburg?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/01Jul22-Gettysburg-Battlefield-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the three days leading up to Indpendence Day 1863, Americans waged the greatest of battles against one another at…
John Burns & the Battle of Gettysburg
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/30Jun22-Gettysburg-Battlefield-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine hitting the age to retire and then deciding to volunteer for the army. That is what John Burns did. …
Limpia Creek Hats
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/29Jun22-Limpia-Creek-Hats-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)How much would you pay for a good cowboy hat? I suppose it depends what you do for a living…
Should You Wear Your Cowboy Hat in the Rain?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/28Jun22-Limpia-Creek-Hats-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 26 years of doing interviews for this show, John Davis may take the award for the most polite person…
Making a Great Cowboy Hat
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/27Jun22-Limpia-Creek-Hats-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Every cowboy needs a cowboy hat. There are plenty of places you can buy a hat, but this small shop…
The $25 Million Dollar Room
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/24Jun22-Museum-of-the-Big-Bend-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In a moment I’ll take you to a small room, about the size of a large walk-in closet, that’s insured…
Taking the Southern Route
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/23Jun22-Museum-of-the-Big-Bend-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)As settlers moved from east to west across this continent they were looking for the best route to reach the…
Museum of the Big Bend
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/22Jun22-Museum-of-the-Big-Bend-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Big Bend region of Texas is a place where mountain chains meet but few people stayed. The land was…
The Old Hoover Powerhouse
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/21Jun22-Kingman-Arizona-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Before Hoover Dam supplied electricity for this region of the southwest, this old powerhouse generated the electricity. In fact, in…
Kingman, Arizona
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/20Jun22-Kingman-Arizona-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Dinosaurs, caves and safari parks are the things summer road trips are made of. Perhaps that’s why the combination still…
Elmer Long’s Bottle Tree Forest
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/17Jun22-Elmer-Long-Bottle-Tree.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Elmer Long doesn’t manage a national forest, but it may be the most unique collection of trees in the nation. …
The Disneyland of Diving
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/16Jun22-Duluth-Aquarium-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may have seen folks on tv diving to explore old shipwrecks. Most of the time we may think of…
Where the Cold Water Meets the Warm
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/15Jun22-Duluth-Aquarium-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Lots of people love to go fishing, and even if you’re one of the folks that doesn’t care much for…
Duluth’s Great Lakes Aquarium
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/14Jun22-Duluth-Aquarium-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)One of the most recognizable structures in Duluth, and in the state of Minnesota for that matter, is the famous…
519 N 3rd Avenue East, Duluth, Minnesota
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/13Jun22-Dylan-Boyhood-Home-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The home at of 519 N 3rd Ave. East in Duluth, Minnesota looks much like the ones surrounding it. In…
Do You Know Robert Zimmerman?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/10Jun22-Dylan-Boyhood-Home-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Robert Zimmerman perhaps sounds like a fairly common name. This young man was born in Duluth, Minnesota, later moving to…
Did You See That Fencepost?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/09Jun22-Joe-Jeffrey-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Every cattleman needs good fences to keep the herd from roaming free. Joe Jeffrey has seen many miles of those…
