Category: Best of
A Method to Your Work
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/Methodist-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.4MB)If you do something the same way day after day, you might be said to have a method to your…
Encountering Trying Times
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/Methodist-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)On the southeast coast of Georgia you can find the place were these brothers encountered one of their most trying…
Best of 2013: Big Bud
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/01Jan14-Best-of-2013-Big-Bud.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)Deere, Case, Oliver, Ford and Allis-Chalmers…they are but a few of …..many companies that have built tractors. The largest tractor…
Best of 2013: Inside the Presidential Limo
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/31Dec13-Best-of-2013-Presidential-Limo.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may have heard people say that President Kennedy would have never been assassinated in Dallas if he ordered the…
Best of 2013: A Viking Ship
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/30Dec13-Best-of-2013-Viking-Ship.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)On the surface it seemed to be a ludicrous project. A man with no experience building boats, was going to…
Best of 2013: Arecibo Observatory
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/27Dec13-Best-of-2013-Arecibo-Observatory.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)On occasion you may here a story about an asteroid making a close pass to our planet. So who tells…
The Best of 2013: Antelope Island
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/26Dec13-Best-of-2013-Antelope-Island.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Every fall there is a round-up of the herd here just outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. You can even…
The Only Noel
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/25Dec13-Noel-Missouri.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)At Christmas we may sing, “The First Noel.” In the United States, this is the “Only Noel.” Confused? Join me…
Twas the Night Before Christmas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/24Dec13-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…
Keeping Ahead of the Beverage of the Day
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/19Dec13-Prohibition-Party-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)Before there was a Got Milk slogan…some dairymen used an amendment to the constitution to help keep their product ahead…
The Prohibition Party
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/18Dec13-Prohibition-Party-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)You may have thought this political party died when alcohol became legal again back in the 1930s. You’ll be intrigued…
One of The Largest Sheep Export Cities in the World
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/17Dec13-Kethchum-Sheep.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)When the silver ran out, the sheep moved in–thousands of them, in fact. This place became one of the largest…
A POW-built Nativity
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/16Dec13-Algona-Iowa-Nativity.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)It was Christmas 1945. German POWs at Camp Algona in Algona, Iowa would be returning to Europe the next year….
The Heisman Runner-Up
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/13Dec13-Leroy-Keyes.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)In 1968, O.J Simpson won the Heisman Trophy, but it was this man who was runner-up in the Heisman balloting…
Keith’s Cafe
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/09Dec13-Keiths-Cafe.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In Memphis, Missouri, there’s a café where great food has been served for about 65 years now. This is the…
The Denver Sleigh Works
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/03Dec13-Denver-Sleigh-Works.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Santa needs a sleigh to make deliveries around the world. This man makes sure he will never run out of…
A Store For the Holidays
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/02Dec13-Holiday-Christmas-Store.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If Santa Claus needed a place to buy all of his decorations, this would be it. This big business in…
Grilling the Turkey
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/29Nov13-Turkey-Grilling.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Thanksgiving is the time most Americans talk turkey, but Sheerleen Clausen hopes to change that they’ll think of turkey every…
Your Face on the Side of a Semi
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/28Nov13-Fred-Mares-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Each of the communities that we call home can claim outstanding individuals who go the extra mile when it comes…
A Helpful Smile In Every Aisle
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/27Nov13-Fred-Mares-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Image a man who speaks over ten languages, can play multiple musical instruments and serenade customers with his wonderful voice….