Category: Best of
All Kinds of Currencies
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/06May16-Multiple-Currencies.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)One, five, ten, twenty? Now imagine there were more denominations and dozens of different types of bills in circulation. What…
A Great Train Robbery
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/02/26Apr16-Jesse-James-Train-Robbery.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Great train robberies are the stuff of some great wild west movies. In real life though, they say the first…
Wonders of the Tuckaleeche Caverns
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/02/08Apr16-Tuckaleeche-Caverns.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)For centuries, people have recognized the natural beauty along the border of Tennessee and North Carolina. We call it the…
A Well-known Landmark
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/08Jan16-Crowleys-Ridge.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Mississippi River has formed many new channels over the centuries. One of those old routes places it many miles…
Best of 2015: The Edmund Fitzgerald
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/01Jan16-Best-of-2015-Edmund-Fitzgerald.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)It’s a mystery that is now 40 years old…a mystery that lives on through a song that tells the story…
Best of 2015: Tombstone
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/31Dec15-Best-of-2015-Tombstone.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:56 — 2.0MB)When this man set out to find his fortune he was told he’d need to dig his grave when he…
Best of 2015: Rex Hudler
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/30Dec15-Best-of-2015-Rex-Hudler.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today’s sports stars often have high powered agents who negotiate their contracts. However, this first round draft pick simply turned…
Best of 2015: Inside A Titan Missle Silo
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/29Dec15-Best-of-2015-Titan-Missle-Silo.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Over the year’s we’ve done some of our interviews underground. That’s the case for today’s feature…situated on “level seven” of…
Best of 2015: Jim the Wonder Dog
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/28Dec15-Best-of-2015-Jim-the-Wonder-Dog.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many people have dogs and some of us have even taught our dogs to do tricks. But Sam had a…
The McElhaney Cattle Company
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/27Nov15-McElhaney-Cattle-Company.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Angus Brown is used to dealing with 120 degree plus heat and three inches of rain a year. It’s a…
The Butterball Turkey Talkline
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/26Nov15-Plymouth-Rock.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Each Thanksgiving we are likely to remember the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth Rock. But is that rock really the…
Trying to Prevent a Bank Robbery
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/10/02Nov15-Northfield-Jesse-James.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You probably have not heard of a man named Joseph Lee Haywood. He died on September 7th, 1876 trying to…
Remembering Grandma Saunders
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/19Oct15-Grandma-Saunders.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)My grandmother Darlene Saunders passed last week and today I’ll be a pall bearer at her funeral. So today I…
The Spanish Treasure Cave
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/13Oct15-Spanish-Treasure-Cave.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)In the years following Columbus’ voyage to the new world, other Europeans followed, some with ideas of conquering native American…
Camp Floyd
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/02Oct15-Camp-Floyd.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:57 — 2.0MB)For three years, 3500 soldiers served alongside one another in Utah Territory. It was the largest military outpost in the…
The Only Remaining Packard Showroom
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/09/01Oct15-Packard-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Name your favorite brand of car and you can probably find a dealership within a reasonable distance of your home. …
The Luxury Car of the 20th Century
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/30Sep15-Packard-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:57 — 2.0MB)It was the luxury car of the first half of the 20th century. Today the company is gone, but the…
Positioning A Product
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/29Sep15-Cherry-Farmer-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:56 — 2.0MB)Many Americans are growing more concerned about their health and diet. That means this farmer has to put some thought…
A Crop Nearly Everyone Enjoys
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/28Sep15-Cherry-Farmer-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:57 — 2.0MB)Ben LaCrosse grows a crop just about everyone enjoys. However, it’s a crop that is difficult to harvest and one…
A Town Named Young
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/04Sep15-Young-Arizona.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)It’s just a small town of about 500 people. You’ve driven through bunches of them. But you probably have not…
