Category: Best of
President’s Week 2017: Woodrow Wilson
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/22Feb17-Presidents-Week-Woodrow-Wilson.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)He was the son of a Presbyterian minister who went on to teach school and lead the nation during a…
President’s Week 2017: Theodore Roosevelt
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/21Feb17-Presidents-Week-Theodore-Roosevelt.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)To date, no U.S. president has been born in North Dakota…but this commander-in-chief’s experiences there may be the reason he…
President’s Week 2017: William McKinley
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/20Feb17-Presidents-Week-William-McKinley.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some history students will remember the slogan “Remember the Maine”, a war cry that sent the U.S. into battle against…
The Jefferson Highway
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/02/17Feb17-Jefferson-Highway-2017.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)In the nineteen teens and early 20s motorists did not find their route by a highway number but rather a…
Amazing Feats of Frigidness
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/27Jan17-Morristown-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)We may complain about winter weather at times…but there has perhaps never been a winter like that of 1779-80…a winter…
The Challenges of Morristown
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/26Jan17-Morristown-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Most American’s have heard of the winter Washington’s men endured at Valley Forge…but few it seems have heard the story…
Shawnee Mission
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/20Jan17-Shawnee-Mission-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)As Europeans crossed the Atlantic, those who had been living on the eastern seaboard for centuries were often forced to…
A Trading Network on the Northern Plains
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/13Jan17-Fort-Union-2017.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)It was the site of a vast trading network on the northern plains. It’s history spanned forty years and today,…
The Knife River Indian Village
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/06Jan17-Knife-River-Indian-Village.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Two centuries ago, these villages contained more people than the city of St. Louis…yet only a handful of Europeans and…
Best of 2016: Take A Little Trip with Colonel Jackson
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/30Dec16-Best-of-2016-Battle-of-New-Orleans.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)What you know about this battle probably comes from a song you’ve heard. So today we’ll “Take a little trip…
Best of 2016: Judge Roy Bean
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/29Dec16-Best-of-2016-Judge-Roy-Bean.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We may not like the rules, but every place needs them. And with the rules comes a person to enforce…
Best of 2016: A Nuclear “Event”
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/28Dec16-Best-of-2016-Idaho-National-Laboratory.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)It was an attention getter. A statement that showed the world the United States was serious about using nuclear energy…
Best of 2016: General Patton’s Special Drink
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/27Dec16-Best-of-2016-Boundary-Oak-Distillary.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:57 — 2.0MB)Sometimes people will use secret codes to keep vital information from slipping into the wrong hands. General Patton used such…
Best of 2016: The Moldy Cantaloupe That Saved The World
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/26Dec16-Best-of-2016-Peoria-Penicillin.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:57 — 2.0MB)You could call it the “moldy cantaloupe that saved the world.” It was an unlikely find, but one that indeed…
Where Santa Gets His Decorations
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/20Dec16-Bronners-Christmas-Wonderland.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)If Santa Claus needed a place to buy all of his decorations, this would be it. It’s big business in…
A Best Seller From An Ohio Farm
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/02Dec16-Mark-Sanborn.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)If you go by your local bookstore’s business section, you might just find his name on several best sellers. Many…
Shipping Bricks
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/18Nov16-Vernal-Bank-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you need to ship 40 tons of bricks, you of course use…parcel post. That’s what one man did to…
The Very Large Array
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/08Nov16-VLA-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In the early 1980s this flat, desolate rangeland saw a major change. Now it is not only home to herds…
Seeing Light Years Away
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/07Nov16-VLA-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Being able to see far ahead helps one plan for the future. Here on the barren plains of New Mexico…
June McCarroll
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/24Oct16-June-McCarrol.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Today you could get a ticket if you don’t drive on your side of the road. But in 1917, Dr….
