Category: Best of
Wilson Footballs
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/02/Wilson-Football-2011.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Plenty of people watch the Super Bowl and certainly the contest makes game day heroes out of some of the…
Menno Attema
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/01/17Jan11-Minnow-Altama.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Imagine growing up on a farm and then in your early twenties traveling on your own a half a world…
A Farmer’s Market in the North
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/01/27Aug09-Palmer-Alaska-Farmers-Market.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 952.9KB)When you think of fertile farmland, you probably think about rich, deep soil in the heart of the Midwest. But…
The Official FFA Jacket
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/01/FFA-Jackets-2011.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)A doctor is expected to wear a white coat. A policeman is supposed to have a badge. A cowboy, of…
Free Range Chickens
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/01/Free-Range-Chickens.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.8MB)When Herman’s son brought home an antiquated animal production book that he happen to find in his high school ag…
Best of 2010: Ava Drugstore
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Best-of-2010-Ava-Drugstore.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 937.2KB)In 1950s America kids might have finished their school day with a trip by the drug store soda fountain where…
Best of 2010: The Alamo
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Best-of-2010-Alamo.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.4KB)It’s one of the most famous buildings at the center of one of the most famous battles in history. A…
Best of 2010: Tom Crosby
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Best-of-2010-Tom-Crosby.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)American troops had finally made it to Manila and were attempting to free POWs like Tom Crosby. Just when things…
Best of 2010: Mount Washington
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/27Dec10-Best-of-2010-Mt-Washington.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)If you are ever tempted to think the winter weather where you live is bad, just wait until you hear…
Parker Brothers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Parker-Brothers-2010.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Park Place and Boardwalk are real places in Atlantic City, NJ. They became famous of course, through the game of…
Cyrus McCormick
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Cyrus-McCormick.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 952.9KB)For centuries, crops were cut and threshed by hand. That all changed with a young farmer in Virginia. This is…
Cowpens Battlefield
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Cowpens-National-Battlefield-2010-Part-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Imagine being captured during a war and then forced to fight against the army from which you came. What would…
A Pasture for a Battleground
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Cowpens-National-Battlefield-2010-Part-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)It was once known as just a giant pasture, but today it’s also the site of an important battle in…
Grilling the Gobbler
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Turkey-Grilling-2010.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Thanksgiving is the time most Americans talk turkey, but Sheerleen Clausen hopes to change that they’ll think of turkey every…
Fort Mose
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Fort-Mose-2010-Part-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)In the marshlands on the northern edge of one of America’s oldest city, you’ll find an amazing story of the…
Slaves Escaping to the South
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Fort-Mose-2010-Part-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Long before there was an American Civil War waged over the issue of slavery, there was the struggle for slaves…
Saugus Iron Works
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Saugus-Iron-Works-2010.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 939.8KB)It is a factory that began operation over a century before England’s colonies became the United State of America. We…
Election Day 2010
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Voting-2010.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Today we may not think much about the way we vote, unless a close contest causes us to have to…
Pawnee Bill
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Pawnee-Bill-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 954.3KB)It may have seemed this famous western showman had married the wrong woman. After all, his bride was a city…
The Kansas Cosmosphere
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/15Oct10-Kansas-Cosmosphere-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.9MB)Today we’re back in Hutchinson, KS and say hello to our listeners on KWBW. I can attest to what folks…