Category: Indiana
Not a Covered Bridge
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/08/06Oct17-Whitewater-Canal-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most people see this structure and think it’s just a covered bridge. That answer is partially correct. When you uncover…
The Power Source Before Electricity
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/08/05Oct17-Whitewater-Canal-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we flip a switch and use electricity to run most conveniences around our homes and businesses. However, before the…
Getting From One Point to Another
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/08/04Oct17-Whitewater-Canal-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the days before roads crisscrossed the nation, rivers served as one of the best ways to get from one…
All Kinds of Currencies
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/09/26Sept17-Dozens-of-Currencies.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)One, five, ten, twenty? Those are the denominations of bills we normally see when paying for items. Now imagine that…
Clean Water and Good Health
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/08/13Sep17-French-Lick-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Clean water is an important part of maintaining good health. So it may seem odd to us today that thousands…
Pluto…But Not the Planet…or the Disney Character
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/08/12Sep17-French-Lick-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)For most of us, the name Pluto is recognized as the name of a planet, or whatever they are calling…
A Town With An Unusual Name
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/08/11Sep17-French-Lick-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s one of the most unusual town names you’ll find in the nation. But when you dig a little deeper…
A Beloved War Correspondent
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/07Jul17-Ernie-Pyle-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When this journalist died, the president of the United States personally took to the airwaves to announce his death to…
Reporting The ‘Common Man’ During World War II
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/06Jul17-Ernie-Pyle-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When America sent troops to war during World War II, this man was there, alongside the infantry and reporting the…
A Fellow American Countryside Traveler
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/05Jul17-Ernie-Pyle-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)I must admit, I feel a kinship with the person we feature today. For he too was a traveler of…
The Nuisance That Made People Look Up
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/03/27Mar17-Greensburg-Courthouse-Tree-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)At first people thought it was as nuisance. But there was little anyone could do about it. And after awhile,…
Looking Up at The Courthouse
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/03/24Mar17-Greensburg-Courthouse-Tree-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The county courthouse is the centerpiece of many town squares across the country. But the square in Decatur County, Indiana…
A Beautiful Museum Looking For a New Home
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/03/23Mar17-Last-Supper-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Today may be a first in the 20 plus years of our broadcasts. A recent interview took an interesting twist…
A Knick-Knack Purchase That Grew Into a Collection
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/03/22Mar17-Last-Supper-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.7MB)Perhaps some husbands listening to this show have been told that if they want to bring a certain knick-knack home…
Leonardo’s Most Famous Painting
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/03/21Mar17-Last-Supper-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)In 1495 Leonardo Da Vinci began work on a painting that all of us have seen. In fact, it’s his…
Baking Powder & the Indy 500
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/05Feb16-Clabber-Girl-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Maybe you’ve heard of the Clabber Girl brand of baking powder. It’s been around for over a century. But perhaps…
Clabber Girl
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/04Feb16-Clabber-Girl-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:03 — 2.1MB)Perhaps you think a story about baking powder would be quite bland, but the tale of these two brothers is…
A Route to Healing
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/11Sep15-Holocaust-Survivor-Eva-Kor-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s sometimes difficult to forgive someone. In this case, Eva was willing to forgive the perpetrators of murders against her…
Taken From Mother’s Arms
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/10Sep15-Holocaust-Survivor-Eva-Kor-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Their story is one that will make you cry. Ten year old twin girls, taken from their mothers arms –…
Holocaust Survivor Eva Kor
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/09Sep15-Holocaust-Survivor-Eva-Kor-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we begin a three part series with Eva Kor, a Holocaust survivor with a story you won’t want to…
