Category: American Countryside
That’ll Be The Day
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/07/13Jul21-Buddy-Holly-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many of us know the Buddy Holly sing, That’ll Be the Day.” It was a hit that launched the young…
It’s Not County Western Music
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/07/12Jul21-Buddy-Holly-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Landing a record deal is a big step in a musician’s career. But when this record company wanted their young…
Lubbock’s Rock ‘n Roller
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/07/09Jul21-Buddy-Holly-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Ever rock ‘n roll star had to begin somewhere, and for this musician from Lubbock, TX it was playing at…
A Flight With No Engine
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/07/08Jul21-Silent-Wings-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine entering a heated ground battle simply slicing through the air on a glider. It was a dangerous mission that…
Gliding Into Battle
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/07/07Jul21-Silent-Wings-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the United States entered World War II soldiers were asked to fight in places where it would be difficult…
Big Footprints
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/07/06Jul21-Dinosaur-Valley.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The animal tracks are three foot in width…and they are real…not made by an imaginary bigfoot…but plain to see to…
The Veterinarian Who Began Arizona’s First Golf Resort
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/07/05Jul21-San-Marcos-Hotel.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Phoenix, Arizona has plenty of golf resorts that attract thousands of visitors, but ask someone who established the first course…
Fact & Fiction of Paul Revere’s Ride
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/02Jul21-Paul-Revere-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Listen, my children, and you shall hear…Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere. It’s the beginning to that famous Longfellow…
The Famous American Revolutionary War Dentist
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/01Jul21-Paul-Revere-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He’s probably the most famous dentist in the American Revolutionary War. You might not know he cleaned teeth, but you…
The World’s Best Hot Dogs
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/30Jun21-KC-Cattle-Company-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Patrick Montgomery had the world’s best hot dog, but he didn’t have enough them to sell to all those who…
Hot Dog Sales Through the Roof
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/29Jun21-KC-Cattle-Company-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Patrick Montgomery is in the business of delivering customers the best steaks they’ll ever eat. Along the way, he may…
From Army Ranger to Entrepreneur
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/28Jun21-KC-Cattle-Company-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Patrick Montgomery was an army ranger…and in 2014 he had a decision to make – reenlist or pursue another career…
Four Tons of Glass Negatives
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/25Jun21-Leavenworth-Historical-Society-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some of us remember the photo negatives you used to get when you processed film. But a century ago the…
First City of Kansas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/24Jun21-Leavenworth-Historical-Society-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It is the “First City of Kansas.” The reason it achieved that status was because of an important fort that…
A Gift for the Sultan’s Wives
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/23Jun21-CW-Park-Carousel-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A husband is supposed to give his bride a gift on her birthday, anniversary, Christmas…well, they should probably be giving…
Carousel Capitol of the World
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/22Jun21-CW-Park-Carousel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When most people think of this town they perhaps remember one of two things – a fort or a major…
CW Parker
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/21Jun21-CW-Park-Carousel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)CW Parker moved from Illinois to Kansas and his first career was hand digging wells. However, he began to take…
St. Paul’s Church
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/18Jun21-St-Pauls-Church-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, Lutheran…there are many labels that may be placed on churches. However, during the early years of this…
A Symbol for the Struggle of Freedom
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/17Jun21-St-Pauls-Church-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Just outside of New York City proper, yet well within the urban corridor, there sits a church in the suburb…
Death Alley
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/16Jun21-The-Dalton-Gang-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today these streets and the adjacent alley are peaceful avenues lines with small town businesses. The fall of 1892, it…
