http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/04/07Apr21-Fort-Ticonderoga-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes history makes people seem bigger than life.  That’s certainly true for a man named Ethan Allen and his band…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/04/06Apr21-Fort-Ticonderoga-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was one of the most important forts of the late 1700s and interestingly, it changed hands twice without a…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/05Apr21-Fairbault-Minnesota-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The situation was bad, for all involved.  But what was about to take place in Minnesota was an injustice to…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/02Apr21-Fairbault-Minnesota-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Henry Whipple perhaps had no plans to move west as a young man.  But when he married, his wife encouraged…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/01Apr21-Fairbault-Minnesota-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today the meeting of the Straight and Cannon Rivers is probably not as important as it was 200 years ago,…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/31Mar21-Fairbault-Minnesota-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He was born on the frontier, and the frontier life is perhaps all he ever knew.  So it should be…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/30Mar21-Hopewell-Mounds-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Cemeteries usually have headstones to make the spot of loved ones who have passed.  But this civilization used something far…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/29Mar21-Hopewell-Mounds-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)History on this continent is young when compared to places like Europe…but that mentality is to forget about the centuries…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/26Mar21-Lehmans-Amish-Store-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you lived without electricity…either by choice or simply because of the location you lived…where would you go to find…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/25Mar21-Lehmans-Amish-Store-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you’re going to do well in business you have to stay up with the times…but for jay Lehman…doing the…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/24Mar21-Wright-Brothers-Kittyhawk-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was an event so important that it had to be captured on film…yet when it actually occurred, few would…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/23Mar21-Wright-Brothers-Kittyhawk-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s one of those locations that when you say the name of the place, there’s just one event that pops…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/22Mar21-Vincennes-Rendevous.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1779, soldiers of the American Revolution set foot here to capture lands for the new United States.  Over two…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/19Mar21-Osteology-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Jay has a lot of skeletons in his closet.  Oh, but there’s much more.  He has skeletons just about everywhere…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/18Mar21-Osteology-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Jay’s father could have scolded him for what he’d unearthed.  Most parents would say, “Put down that filthy thing!”  His…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/17Mar21-Powhatan-Arkansas-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we welcome our listeners in southern MO and northern AR on 92.3 KSAR.  Folks there may know of a…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/16Mar21-Powhatan-Arkansas-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of Powhatan, Arkansas.  However, this was once a thriving city with steamboat traffic…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/15Mar21-Kaskaskia-Illinois-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we head west of the Mississippi River to the state of Illinois.  Yes, that is correct…we’re heading west across…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/12Mar21-Kaskaskia-Illinois-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Liberty Bell tolled for freedom in Philadelphia…or was it really in the state of Illinois.  The surprising answer to…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/11Mar21-Kaskaskia-Illinois-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Roll back the clock 250 years and this city’s population might rival some of the largest towns on the east…