Category: American Countryside
A Steer, A Country Club, and Clint Eastwood
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/18Sep19-ML-McCrea-Rawhide-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Today’s story involves a steer invited to eat at a Country Club, Clint Eastwood and one farm kid who found…
An Angus Steer Playing the Part of a Longhorn
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/17Sep19-ML-McCrea-Rawhide-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)He was an actor way out of his normal character roll. But the most intriguing thing was the fact, this…
An Impact Still Felt Today
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/16Sep19-Maggie-Walker-2019.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Her name may not be as prominent as Martin Luther King or Booker T. Washington, yet her impact is still…
Still Visiting a Star’s Birthplace
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/13Sep19-Elvis-Birthplace.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)About 70% of the 100,000 visitors that come to this small home each year are from outside the U.S. Yet…
The National Championship Pedal Pull
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/12Sep19-Pedal-Pull-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Every September kids from across the country come to the Corn Palace to compete in this national championship. It’s a…
Another Way to Invest Your Retirement Money
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/11Sep19-Pedal-Pull-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)People decide to do a multitude of things with their retirement money. Ken Meyers decided to invest his in something…
A Place They Call Barnacopia
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/10Sep19-Barnacopia.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)What does a farmer do when he retires from working the land? For Gary Bocker he really wasn’t looking to…
Traveling to a Time That’s Passed
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/09Sep19-Winthrop-Washington-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)When you drive into Wintrhop, Washington…it appears time has passed it by…but a closer look will show you that what…
The Town at the End of the Road
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/08/06Sep19-Winthrop-Washington-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)At one time, this town was the end of the road, with the mighty Cascades a barrier to travel further…
Everything Is For Sale
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/08/05Sep19-Auctioneer-Jared-Miller-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)What’s the most difficult genre of items for an auctioneer to sell? That depends on the auctioneer you ask but…
The Best Auctioneer
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/08/04Sep19-Auctioneer-Jared-Miller-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The chant of an auctioneer – it is the sounds that calls for bids and brings items to their top…
An Iconic Vehicle Modernized
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/08/03Sep19-Mahindra-Roxor.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Some say it was the iconic vehicle of World War II. A vehicle that General Esienhower said was one of…
Listening to the Call of the Wild
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/08/02Sep19-Stuttgart-Arkansas-Ducks.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Every year thousands of people come to Stuttgart, Arkansas to listen to calls from the wild that are worth thousands…
An Organization for Truck Stops
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/08/30Aug19-Deluxe-Truck-Stop-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)There’s an association for just about everything, so it should not be a surprise there is an organization for truck…
The Rabbi at the Truck Stop
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/08/29Aug19-Deluxe-Truck-Stop-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)We’ve probably all seen Kosher foods in the grocery store which means those foods have been handled in accordance with…
The Odor in the Trailer
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/08/28Aug19-Deluxe-Truck-Stop-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)There are plenty of odors that will drive you away – after all that’s how a skunk protects itself. But…
A Deluxe Truck Stop
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/08/27Aug19-Deluxe-Truck-Stop-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Folks in the four-state area of Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, and beyond may know of a single truck stop that…
Grieving Traditions
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/08/26Aug19-Funeral-Customs-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When someone close to us passes, we mourn. While it’s not a topic we usually want to dwell upon…this man…
History of a Difficult Subject
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/08/23Aug19-Funeral-Customs-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Today’s topic is one people don’t often like to discuss, yet it’s one with which all of us must deal…
The Famous Menu Item
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/08/22Aug19-Arcadia-Academy-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Lots of places can tout great food, but few can say they have a recording artist who wrote a song…
