Category: Best of
The Clover of 4-H
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/12Feb15-4-H-Clover.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)The 4-H Program is now over a century old and many people recognize the familiar green clover that symbolizes those…
Thousand Foot Long Docks
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/05Jan15-Two-Harbors-Docks.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They are some of the largest boat docks you’ll ever see. Not mere spots on a lake from which to…
Best of 2014 – The Rights to a Cowboy Song
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/02Jan15-Best-of-2014-The-Rights-to-a-Cowboy-Song.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)In the 1930s a cowboy song began to get quite a bit of air time on radio stations. But suddenly…
Best of 2014 – Burning the White House
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/01Jan15-Best-of-2014-Burning-the-White-House.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It was an act that seemed unthinkable. Another nation’s army marched into the United States capital and burned its most…
Best of 2014 – The Navajo Codetalker
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/31Dec14-Best-of-2014-Navajo-Codetalker.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When World War II began, many men here in Navajo country volunteered for the armed forces. Some of those men…
Best of 2014 – The Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/30Dec14-Best-of-2014-Archduke-Ferdinand-Assassination.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s difficult for many of us to name many specific battles or events in World War I. We may have…
Best of 2014 – A Permanent Trip to Luckenbach
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/26Dec14-Best-of-2014-Luckenbach-Texas.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:03 — 2.1MB)Hayden Whittington began driving to Luckenbach, Texas before most people had ever heard of it. He remembers the days when…
The Holiday Christmas Store
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/25Dec14-Holiday-Christmas-Store.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)If Santa Claus needed a place to buy all of his decorations, this would be it. It’s big business in…
Twas The Night Before Christmas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/24Dec14-Night-Before-Christmas.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)We know the words of “’twas the night before Christmas;” words that helped solidify the image of Santa over 200…
The First Thanksgiving Feast
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/28Nov14-Berkley-Plantation.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may have thought Thanksgiving dates back to the pilgrims of Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, but this place claims to…
The Butterball Turkey Talkline
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/27Nov14-Turkey-Talkline.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ve heard from her before, but considering the way some of us cook, maybe you should listen again. If your…
A November Pardon for the Birds
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/26Nov14-Turkey-Pardon.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s one of the most controversial decisions that can be made in the legal system. The end of November has…
The Battle of Island Mound
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/21Nov14-Battle-of-Island-Mound.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)You may have never heard of the Battle of Island Mound, However the skirmish that took place here is still remembered…
Dressing For Success
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/14Nov14-Tyson-CEO-Donnie-Smith-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)How should you dress for work? It’s a question many businesses must address with their employees. Here, the answer may seem…
Influencing People in Agriculture
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/13Nov14-Tyson-CEO-Donnie-Smith-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:57 — 2.0MB)How do you influence people in agriculture? To some, it may seem like an odd question. However the answer is one…
Oceanfront Property in Arizona
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/10/07Nov14-Yuma-Arizona-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)George Strait once sang that he had some oceanfront property in Arizona and if you’d buy that he’d throw the…
A Bridge in the Desert
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/10/06Nov14-Yuma-Arizona-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Before bridges crossed rivers, communities often relied upon ferries to carry people and supplies. In some cases, those ferry operators…
A Trip to Yuma, Arizona
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/10/05Nov14-Yuma-Arizona-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Yuma, Arizona is in the Sonora dessert. The annual average rainfall is about three inches per year. So it is…
One of the Most Sobering Stories of World War II
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/10/31Oct14-USS-Indianapolis-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When Japan surrendered to the U.S., Americans rejoiced to know that the conflict was coming to an end. Buried in the…
One of the Worst Disasters in US Naval History
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/10/30Oct14-USS-Indianapolis-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was one of the worst disasters at sea in U.S. naval history. The loss of life combined with the horrific…
