Category: California
The Story Behind the Tsukamoto School
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/05/2026-0610-Mariel-Tsukomoto-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Tsukamoto school in Sacramento is a place of triumph. Some may not know the story behind the name, but…
A Humorous Moment Wrapped Inside Regrettable History
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/05/2026-0609-Mariel-Tsukomoto-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When Marielle arrived in Arkansas, she found her new home must have been constructed for a group of second graders. …
Stepping In To Make Things Right
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/05/2026-0608-Mariel-Tsukomoto-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Bob Fletcher is a hero to many around Sacramento. When others were wronged, he stepped in to make things right…
A World War II Hospital
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/05/2026-0529-World-War-II-Hospital.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)As the United States began sending thousands of troops to Europe and the Pacific during World War II, there were…
The Discovery of Gold in Auburn
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/05/2026-0528-Auburn-Gold-Discovery-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A gold rush can attract people from all walks of life and all points on the globe. That was the…
A Story of Another Gold Community
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/05/2026-0527-Auburn-Gold-Discovery-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many of us have heard about the discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill that set about the 49’s rush in…
The Wheat King
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0421-The-Wheat-King.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He was known as the Wheat King, a title bestowed on a farmer who built an empire growing the crop…
Willows, California
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0420-Willows-California.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The name of this place tells you what the early settlers found here at the joining of two creeks. The…
Driving the Cannonball Run
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0121-Cannonball-Run-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many of us love road trips. Probably nothing we’ve experienced compares to what Jeff and Alexis Popick recently did. They…
A Father and Daughter Trip
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0120-Cannonball-Run-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many people decide to make the trip of a lifetime and drive their car from one coast to another. Now…
That Crazy Cross Country Race
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0119-Cannonball-Run-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the early 1980s the movie “Cannonball Run” hit movie theatres. Although the comedy is several decades old, many have…
One of the Best Views of San Francisco Bay
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/07/01Aug25-Alcatraz-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This island has some of the best views of San Francisco Bay and the city itself…yet most people didn’t want…
An Important Fort in American History
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/07/31Jul25-Alcatraz-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)At one time it was one of the nation’s most important forts…but that’s not how people would know it today. …
Clear Lake, California
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/07/15Jul25-Clear-Lake-California.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s the largest natural lake wholly within the state of California – a beautiful spot that take some effort to…
The Lunchbox Museum
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/07/14Jul25-Lunchbox-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many of us had a lunchbox when we were growing up. Debbie did as well, but when her mom tossed…
The Calavaras County Frog Jumpin’ Contest
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/06/10Jun25-Calavaras-County-Jumpin-Frog-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Each May in Angels Camp, California, thousands of people will come to witness a contest that could pay a winner…
A Trip to Angels Camp That Launched a Career
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/06/09Jun25-Calavaras-County-Jumpin-Frog-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1865 Mark Twain came to Angels Camp, California. A tale he heard, or perhaps one he made up, became…
The Yo-Yo Museum
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/05/05Jun25-YoYo-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When a small store in Chico, California decided to have some fun and create a local yo yo contest, they…
A Crane for a Yo-Yo
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/05/04Jun25-YoYo-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine a yo you so large you needed a crane to lift it. That’s exactly what this man created and…
A Museum for a Toy
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/05/03Jun25-YoYo-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We’ve all seen them. Many of us played with them as a toy. Perhaps you didn’t know it’s origin and…
