Category: Indiana
The Heyday of Passenger Rail
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/01Nov24-French-Lick-Railroad-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The heyday of passenger rail travel was about a century ago. But don’t tell that to the folks in southern…
Boarding Trains for Popular Spots
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/31Oct24-French-Lick-Railroad-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Airlines might devote more flights to popular winter destinations like Phoenix or Florida. One hundred years ago they were adding…
The Dog Who Was This Man’s Best Friend
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/01/31Jan23-Terre-Haute-Bulldog-Stiffy-Green.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s said a dog is a man’s best friend. And in this case, the dog was this man’s best friend…
A Classic Design For More Than 100 Years
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/01/30Jan23-Terre-Haute-Coke-Bottle-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Before the days when refrigerators had lights inside, this company wanted to make sure that you could find it’s product…
Standing Out from the Competition
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/01/29Jan23-Terre-Haute-Coke-Bottle-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Companies usually want their products to stand out from the competition and that’s exactly what this major brand was trying…
Where Mobile Camping Got Its Start
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/01/26Jan23-Terre-Haute-Gilkie-Pop-Up-Camper.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many people love to camp. Of course, camping means different things to different people. Some folks just need a tent…
A Hero Remembered Over a Century Later
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/01/25Jan23-Terre-Haute-Santa-Hero.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What should have been a time of holiday cheer was quickly turned into tragedy. However, the story could have turned…
The Oakland County Car
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/16Aug23-Pontiac-Oakland-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If I were to tell you that there is a car named for Oakland County, Michigan you’d probably not recognize…
Olympic Gold Medalist Scott Hamilton
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/01/10Jan23-Scott-Hamilton-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Fourteen Americans have won an Olympic gold medal in individual figure skating. For Scott Hamilton, his gold medal is just…
Overcoming Failure to Reach Triumph
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/01/09Jan23-Scott-Hamilton-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many athletes have stories of overcoming failure in order to reach triumph. For Scott Hamilton, the journey to a gold…
Getting Involved in a Sport By Accident
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/06Jan23-Scott-Hamilton-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Scott Hamilton was never supposed to accomplish much in sports, let alone win a gold medal. In fact, the way…
The Biggest Steer on Record
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/03/22Mar22-Big-Ben-the-Steer-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He is the biggest steer on record – a beef that was over 16 feet in length and weighed well…
No Beef Better than Ben
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/03/21Mar22-Big-Ben-the-Steer-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Beef producers are usually looking for an efficient, high quality steer to feed. Perhaps there was none better than Ben,…
Remembering LeRoy Keyes
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/12/20Dec21-LeRoy-Keyes.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In1968, O.J Simpson won the Heisman Trophy…but it was this man who was runner-up in the Heisman balloting that year. …
Completing a Castle
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/22Oct21-Boldt-Castle-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was a grand project that employed a hundred workers or more, building a castle on an island in New…
Building a Castle for your Love
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/21Oct21-Boldt-Castle-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)George immigrated from Prussia in the 1800s and settled in New York City. His hard work paid off and he…
Giant Sycamore Stump
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/18Oct21-Kokomo-Sycamore-Stump.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many folks enjoy trees in their yard that provide shade on a summer day and beauty with the fall colors. …
Kokomo Opalescent Glass
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/15Oct21-Kokomo-Glass-Company-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When your product is estimated to be found in seventy-five percent of the world’s churches, you know your company has…
The Amazing Torches of Kokomo
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/14Oct21-Kokomo-Glass-Company-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Dig into the photo archives around Kokomo, Indiana and you’re bound to find plenty of pictures, commonplace in the 1880s,…
What is It? How do you Spell it?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/13Oct21-Kokomo-Glass-Company-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Jeff Shaw owns a company in which he has to answer two questions quite often – What is it and…
