Category: American Countryside
Discovering Dickson Mounds
Long before there were cities like New York and Chicago, these giant cities were scattered across the nation. Today we try to uncover their link…
Dickson Mounds
Today we say hello to our listeners on WDUK in Havanna, IL. This nice town on the Illinois River is far from the first city…
Christmas Wonderland
If Santa Clause needed a place to buy all of his ornaments and decorations, this would be it. It’s big business in small town Michigan…
Blue and Gold Sausage
This FFA advisor found a fund raiser that was so successful, he had to quit teaching just to operate the new business…
Mount Pleasant’s Old Threshers Reunion
Today it is a farm event that easily doubles the size of this Midwestern city. But when it began back in 1950, they simply wanted…
The Button Capitol of the World
There’s plenty of fertile farmland along the Mississippi River at Muscatine, Iowa, but a century ago, this city was known for something else…
Cowboy King of Marriage
Tom Mix was known as the King of the Cowboys, starring in over 300 films from 1910 to 1935. He might also be the king…
Cowboy Moviestar Tom Mix
He was king of the cowboys, a real-life ranch hand that won the hearts of the nation with his amazing feats on Tony the Wonder…
Governor Gravesites in Missouri
Down dirt and gravel roads, off the main highway on paths once well traveled, but now forgotten, you can find small country cemeteries. As families…