Category: American Countryside
A Family Owned Lake Resort
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/04/17Apr19-Campbells-Resort-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)There are lake resorts all across this nation…but it’s not everyday that you encounter a family owned operation that has…
Campbell’s Resort
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/04/16Apr19-Campbells-Resort-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Today we have another installment of our American Countryside Café feature. Although today’s feature is as much about a hotel…
The Largest Hydroelectric Dam in the Nation
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/04/15Apr19-Grand-Coulee-Dam.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It is the largest hydroelectric dam in the nation…spanning just a few feet shy of one mile across and over…
The Downs, Kansas Train Depot
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/04/12Apr19-Downs-Kansas-Railroad-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Maybe you live in a town that still has a train depot – or one that preserved the one they…
Rails in the Blood
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/04/11Apr19-Downs-Kansas-Railroad-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Today we say hello to our listeners in Beloit, KS on KVSV. One loyal listener there knows much about the…
Time in a POW Camp
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/04/10Apr19-Bill-Shuck-B-17-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)By the end of WW II, Bill Shuck was in POW camp with 9000 other English and American airman. This…
Bailing Out of a Burning Plane
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/04/09Apr19-Bill-Shuck-B-17-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Bill Shuck’s B17 bomber had been struck by flack…and now he and the crew had to bail out of the…
The First Taste of War in a B-17
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/04/08Apr19-Bill-Shuck-B-17-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Today we say hello to listeners on two new affiliates, KBRF in Fergus Falls, MN and KIMn Gilette, WY. Today’s…
A Country Becomes a State
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/03/05Apr19-Country-of-Vermont.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When this state joined the union, it was already operating as its own country – and no, I’m not talking…
A Slice of the South in the North
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/03/04Apr19-Lexington-Missouri-History.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It was a slice of the south embedded in the north. A place where one notorious bank robber even returned…
A Masterpiece in the Desert
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/03/03Apr19-Arizona-Biltmore.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When every U.S. president since Herbert Hoover has stayed at your hotel…you know you’ve got a masterpiece. We’ll head to…
The Hoosier Gymnasium
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/03/02Apr19-Hoosiers-Gym-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)They stopped playing high school games in the gym in 1966 and for well over two decades it never hosted…
A Shrine of Sorts
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/03/01Apr19-Hoosiers-Gym-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s just an old high school gym – built in 1921 and replaced in 1966, but it never was torn…
In the Stadium with Denny Matthews
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/03/29Mar19-Denny-Matthews-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)A major league baseball team plays 162 games in a season, but it’s rare any one player will play all…
Keeping Baseball Interesting
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/03/28Mar19-Denny-Matthews-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When a baseball broadcaster has to describe a game that is lackluster at best, they may resort to talking about…
A Career Talking About Baseball
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/03/27Mar19-Denny-Matthews-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Some of you know that one of my favorite times of the year is when baseball season begin. So, with…
The Effects of Asian Citrus Psyllid
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/03/26Mar19-Haines-City-Florida-Citrus-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of the Asian Citrus Psyllid. It’s one of those names that’s hard to…
The Challenges Within the Orange Industry
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/03/25Mar19-Haines-City-Florida-Citrus-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Perhaps you have a glass of orange juice in the morning; but did you know the state known for producing…
A History of Palm Springs
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/03/22Mar19-Palm-Springs-History.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When the rails came through this stretch of dry wilderness, the only people living here were the Cahuilla Indians. What…
The Phoenix Shot Tower
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/03/21Mar19-Phoenix-Shot-Tower-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When the Phoenix Shot Tower was constructed in 1828, it was the tallest building in the nation. It still stands…
