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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/23Sep21-Otesage-Hotel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Baseball Hall of Fame has an induction ceremony each year and when that event takes place, the baseball greats…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/22Sep21-Otesage-Hotel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Perhaps you remember the book and the movie, the Last of the Mohicans.  James Fennimore Cooper was the author of…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/21Sep21-Wyoming-Homesteader-Hester-Currence.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you are a resident of Wyoming, a four or five hour drive to get somewhere may not seem too…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/20Sep21-Museum-of-Advertising.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If it were not for sponsors…daily broadcasts like this…and radio stations themselves for that matter would not be able to…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/17Sep21-Union-Pacific-Railroad-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This company was created from scratch in the 1860s.  From the start, those founders knew that their work would be…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/16Sep21-Union-Pacific-Railroad-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This is Mile Zero.  For several years mile zero of this railroad would only take you to the banks or…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/15Sep21-Union-Pacific-Railroad-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Abraham Lincoln had an important decision to make.  Where would be the beginning point of a new railroad.  We don’t…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/14Sep21-Russell-Cave-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today you might get bad teeth from drinking too much soda…ten thousand years ago teeth were a problem as well…but…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/13Sep21-Russell-Cave-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a cave in the national park system…yet it is far different that well known sites such as Mammoth Cave…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/10Sep21-Arbor-Day-Farm-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You probably know this gentleman’s son for the salt company he founded that bears his name.  but the father was…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/09Sep21-Arbor-Day-Farm-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may enjoy a tree for its beauty, it’s shade, or perhaps the fruit that comes from it.  But when…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/08Sep21-Applegate-Trail.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most people have heard of the Oregon Trail…but few have come across the Applegate Trail…yet it was the latter that…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/07Sep21-Chester-Illinois-History-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Take a drive south of St. Louis on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River and you’ll find some very…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/06Sep21-Chester-Illinois-History-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Illinois’ Largest City – A Long Time Ago Chicago is by far the largest city in the state of Illinois. …

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/08/03Sep21-Chester-Illinois-Popeye-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A lot of people don’t like spinach, but this guy did.  In fact he really liked spinach.  And when he…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/08/02Sep21-Chester-Illinois-Popeye-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There was no doubt this young man had talent.  He was operating motion picture as the local opera house in…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/08/01Sep21-Chester-Illinois-Popeye-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The name Elzie Segar doesn’t resonate with most folks, unless you happen to live in Chester, Illinois.  Folks there know…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/08/31Aug21-Alton-Illinois-Underground-Railroad-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine unearthing history from nearly two centuries ago to find the secret routes people used to gain their freedom.  That’s…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/08/30Aug21-Alton-Illinois-Underground-Railroad-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Railroads spanned these two cities on opposite sides of the Mississippi River, but it was a secret railroad that had…