Category: Indiana
The French Lick Railroad
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/09/16Oct14-French-Lick-Scenic-Railway-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 Indiana,…
The Healing Waters of French Lick
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/09/15Oct14-French-Lick-Scenic-Railway-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 trains…
If You Build It, They Will Come–Two Grand Hotels
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/08/12Sep14-French-Lick-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In the movie “Field of Dreams”, a farmer builds a baseball field in the middle of his corn field. Perhaps the…
A Famous Front Porch
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/08/11Sep14-French-Lick-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Many homes have a front porch. It can be a place to relax and simply enjoy the outdoors. In this town,…
Trophies From the Game of Basketball
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/08/10Sep14-Larry-Bird-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most museums will put the artifacts behind glass, not to be touched. Sure it’s interesting to look, but it might…
The Birthplace of a Basketball Legend
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/08/09Sep14-Larry-Bird-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many of our towns and cities have people that we look up to. Perhaps they aren’t known to the rest of…
Building a Utopian Society
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/28Aug14-New-Harmony-Indiana-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1825, Robert Own of Wales, purchased an entire town in the state of Indiana. His dream was to create a…
A Place Called Harmony
Harmony. It might be defined as finding peace with one’s self and one another. That’s what the people who established the town of Harmony were looking…
A Long-Established Community
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/26Aug14-New-Harmony-Indiana-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are many reasons people came from Europe to the newly founded United States. Some came to find freedom to…
Factors That Influence Vehichle Purchases
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/29Jul14-RAM-Truck-CEO-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What influences someone to buy a new car? Is it great wealth, cool styles, or maybe a clunker that bit…
Automakers After the Great Recession
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/28Jul14-RAM-Truck-CEO-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s been dubbed the Great Recession…the economic downturn of that began in 2009. One of the industries hardest hit were…
It’s a Duesy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/10/Dusenberg-2009.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.0MB)In Northeast Indiana, there’s a town that once produced the top cars of the day. It’s still home to a…
Leroy Keyes
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/12/20Dec11-Leroy-Keyes.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)In 1968, O.J Simpson won the Heisman Trophy, but it was this man who was runner-up in the Heisman balloting…
Working to End Hunger
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/21Nov11-Lafayette-Food-Bank.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Food. We may not think much about it, until we go without a meal. I hope you’ll join me in…
Veterans Day
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/Josh-Bliell.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.8MB)On Veterans Day, we remember those who have served our country and those who have fought to preserve freedom at…
A Flight Plan for Life
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/Vernice-Flygirl-Armour-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Vernice Armour was a combat pilot in Iraq. It was an extraordinary mission, working to rebuild the country and protecting…
Vernice “Flygirl” Armour
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/Vernice-Flygirl-Armour-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Vernice had a dream to fly. However, that dream wasn’t simply to take to the air, but to push the…
Dozens of Currencies
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/09/Old-State-Bank-Currency.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)One, five, ten, twenty? Those are the denominations of bills we normally see when paying for items. Now imagine that…
The Nation’s First Banks
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/Old-State-Banks-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Today, you can find banks and ATM machines seemingly everywhere. But in the first few decades following the founding of…
The Red Skelton Festival
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Red-Skelton-Festival.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)If you go to Vincennes, Indiana this weekend, there’s a good chance you’ll meet a clown. Actually, there’s a chance…
