Category: American Countryside
Monks of the Union Army
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/03Nov21-New-Mellary-Abbey-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Who helped supply the Union army’s depot in Galena, IL during the Civil War? The monks at this abbey of…
How a World Class Italian Restaurant Wound up in Rural Kansas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/02Nov21-Mulvane-Kansas-Restaurant-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you love Italian food perhaps you dream of a trip to Tuscany in Italy to savor the true tastes…
The Unique Route From Tuscany to Kansas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/01Nov21-Mulvane-Kansas-Restaurant-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Nancy grew up in small town Kansas but had a desire to see the country and the world. For several…
Tombstone’s Birdcage Theatre
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/29Oct21-Birdcage-Theater-Arizona.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Over one hundred years ago it was a destination all the top entertainers hit while touring the southwest. Today it…
Exactly How Many Islands?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/28Oct21-Uncle-Sam-Boat-Tour-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They say there are one thousand islands here. Ron knows the exact number though, a number that may surprise the…
A 19th Century Island Getaway
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/27Oct21-Uncle-Sam-Boat-Tour-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today the wealthy might take a jet to a private island in some sunny spot on the globe. Over a…
Touring the Thousand Islands
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/26Oct21-Uncle-Sam-Boat-Tour-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s an area of New York state and Canada known as the Thousand Islands region – a place that draws…
I’ll Wait for the Uncle Sam
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/25Oct21-Uncle-Sam-Boat-Tour-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes the name of a boat is a big deal. Ron’s family had the perfect name for a boat, a…
Completing a Castle
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/22Oct21-Boldt-Castle-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was a grand project that employed a hundred workers or more, building a castle on an island in New…
Building a Castle for your Love
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/21Oct21-Boldt-Castle-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)George immigrated from Prussia in the 1800s and settled in New York City. His hard work paid off and he…
Betsy Ross’ Flag
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/20Oct21-Betsy-Ross.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Americans are fond of their flag. It is a symbol of freedom, of hope, and of bravery. The flag unites…
History of Barbed Wire
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/19Oct21-Barbed-Wire-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Drive down just about any country road and you’ll see it. You may have never thought it would be worthy…
Giant Sycamore Stump
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/18Oct21-Kokomo-Sycamore-Stump.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many folks enjoy trees in their yard that provide shade on a summer day and beauty with the fall colors. …
Kokomo Opalescent Glass
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/15Oct21-Kokomo-Glass-Company-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When your product is estimated to be found in seventy-five percent of the world’s churches, you know your company has…
The Amazing Torches of Kokomo
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/14Oct21-Kokomo-Glass-Company-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Dig into the photo archives around Kokomo, Indiana and you’re bound to find plenty of pictures, commonplace in the 1880s,…
What is It? How do you Spell it?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/13Oct21-Kokomo-Glass-Company-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Jeff Shaw owns a company in which he has to answer two questions quite often – What is it and…
You Can Lead a Horse to Water But He Won’t Drink Oil
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/12Oct21-Bartlesville-Oil-Well-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)George Keeler noticed his horses wouldn’t drink from this spot on the Caney River. The location is today an important…
Attracting More Than a Railroad
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/11Oct21-Bartlesville-Oil-Well-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)William Johnstone and George Keeler were looking for a way to attract the railroad to their new town. Who knew…
A Foreign Attack on the U.S. Mainland
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/08Oct21-Balloon-Bombs-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was a foreign attack on the U.S. mainland…yet few have heard the story of Japan’s balloon bombs and the…
Japanese Bombs on the U.S. Mainland
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/07Oct21-Balloon-Bombs-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Americans know of the bombs Japan dropped at Pearl Harbor…yet few have heard the story of the 9000 that were…
