Category: American Countryside
The Story Behind Custer’s Last Stand
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/09/04Oct18-Custer-Battlefield-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)You’ve probably heard of Custer’s last stand at the Little Bighorn, but do you know the real story of what…
General Custer
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/09/03Oct18-Custer-Battlefield-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)You probably know his name because of his famous last stand. But before that battle in today’s state of Montana,…
The World’s Oldest Pet Cemetery
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/09/02Oct18-Hartsdale-Pet-Cemetery-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Ed Martin Jr. has helped bury dogs, cats, birds, guinea pigs and he’s even heard of a lion cub on…
A Funeral Parlor Like None Other
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/09/01Oct18-Hartsdale-Pet-Cemetery-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Walk into this funeral parlor and it may look like others you’ve seen. But soon you’ll notice some difference that…
A Monument to Medics (So to Speak)
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/09/28Sep18-Hartsdale-Pet-Cemetery-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)You can find many monuments dedicated to soldiers who have fought in national and world conflicts. However, it’s fairly rare…
The Oldest Cemetery of Its Kind
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/09/27Sep18-Hartsdale-Pet-Cemetery-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)This is the oldest cemetery of its kind. Of course, that begs the question, what “kind” of cemetery could it…
Permission to Get Married
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/09/26Sep18-Fort-Hays-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)For an enlisted man at Fort Hays, it wasn’t enough to win a woman’s heart and ask her hand in…
Reasons for Enlisting
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/09/25Sep18-Fort-Hays-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The army certainly needs strong, upstanding young men and women to fill its ranks…but in the late 19th century, the…
A Remaining Fort
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/09/24Sep18-Fort-Hays-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)As Americans moved from east to west, a network of forts sprang up on the high plains to protect travel…
Wearing a Suit to Work
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/09/21Sep18-Dan-Meers-KC-Wolf-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Dan Meers has nearly a dozen suits he wears to work. The odd thing is, all the suites are alike. …
A Bungee Jump and a Zipline
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/09/20Sep18-Dan-Meers-KC-Wolf-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Maybe you’ve conquered fear and made a bungee jump in your life. Or perhaps you’ve rode a zip line on…
A Long Career in the NFL
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/09/19Sep18-Dan-Meers-KC-Wolf-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)If a football player makes it to the NFL, chances are their career may last three or four years on…
The Right Resume for the Job
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/09/18Sep18-Dan-Meers-KC-Wolf-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Dan had a potential problem. He had a four-year college degree from a major state university, but he was concerned…
General Washington’s Fight
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/09/17Sep18-British-Barracks-Trenton-New-Jersey-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The battle George Washington waged against this invisible enemy may not seem that glamorous and it certainly doesn’t get much…
Washington’s Delaware River Crossing Destination
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/09/14Sep18-British-Barracks-Trenton-New-Jersey-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When Washington made his famous crossing of the Delaware River on Christmas night 1776, he was of course headed somewhere. …
More Than An Old Military Barracks
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/09/13Sep18-British-Barracks-Trenton-New-Jersey-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)On the surface this place might not seem that important. It’s just an old military barracks. Yet it is the…
Small Town Opportunities
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/09/12Sep18-Rural-Development-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Are small towns full of opportunities of full of overwhelming challenges? Certainly the answer can be both, but Deb Markley…
A Different Kind of Silo
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/09/11Sep18-Rural-Development-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Drive into farm country and you’re likely to see some silos. Deb Markley talks about silos a lot when she…
A Horse Race You Don’t Want to Miss
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/09/10Sep18-Siena-Italy-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The first Kentucky Debry was run in 1875. The first edition of this annual horse race was run over two…
An Italian Contrada
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/08/07Sep18-Siena-Italy.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s called a “contrada” and unless you are from this city, you probably can’t fully understand the power of something…
