Category: Iowa
Christmas Lights and Cookies
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/12/21Dec23-Christmas-Acres-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Christmas is a busy season for Rob and his wife Joyce. They usually have hundreds of people walking around their…
Christmas Acres
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/12/20Dec23-Christmas-Acres-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A lot of people put up Christmas lights on and around their house each holiday season. That was the case…
The Boyhood Home of Wyatt Earp
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/01Dec23-Pella-Iowa-Wyatt-Earp.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Mention the name Wyatt Earp and folks often quickly think of the shootout at the OK Corral. You certainly aren’t…
The Pella Skyline
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/30Nov23-Pella-Iowa-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some cities have skyscrapers that dominate the skyline. When you live in a small town, it could well be the…
Planting 300,000 Flowers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/29Nov23-Pella-Iowa-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some people plant flowers each Spring to spruce up the place they live or work. Now image you have 300,000…
Creating a New Home in a New Land
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/28Nov23-Pella-Iowa-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When about 800 folks wearing strange clothes begin crossing the nation, they are bound to get noticed. That was the…
A Gift from the President and First Lady
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/17Nov23-Mamie-Eisenhower-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What do you give as a gift to someone who has meant a great deal to you throughout your life? …
The Birthplace of a First Lady
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/16Nov23-Mamie-Eisenhower-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)General and US President Dwight Eisenhower hailed from Abilene KS. The first lady to be, hailed from here… That location…
Retuning the Belongs of Dick Shafer
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/15Nov23-Boone-Iowa-History-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many towns across this country sent men and women overseas during World War II. And in many of those same…
The History of Boone, Iowa
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/14Nov23-Boone-Iowa-History-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Boone, Iowa is about 30 minutes north and slightly west of Des Moines. These fertile farm fields also yielded some…
The Birthplace of Captain Kirk
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/27Oct23-Captain-Kirk-Future-Birthplace.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Over the years we’ve done many stories from towns that are the birthplace of famous people. In fact, just about…
A Truly Special Letter
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/26Oct23-Anne-Frank-Letters-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Not many people write letters these days, opting for emails, texts and the like. But this letter is one that…
A Valuable Letter from a Penpal
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/25Oct23-Anne-Frank-Letters-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Did you ever save a letter that was important to you? This lady did. It was a nice letter from…
A Penpal in Danville, Iowa
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/24Oct23-Anne-Frank-Letters-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Way back when I was in school our classes sometimes had penpals. That was the case for this school in…
The Composer Comes to Spillville
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/02/06Feb23-Bily-Clocks-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the summer of 1893 a unique visitor arrived in Spillville, Iowa. He loved the place so much that he…
Ford’s One Million Dollar Offer
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/01/03Feb23-Bily-Clocks-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1928 the Bily brothers received quite an offer from Henry Ford. He offered them one million dollars for something…
The Amazing Bily Clocks
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/01/02Feb23-Bily-Clocks-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Bily brothers were farmers near Spillville, Iowa. But it’s what the brothers did when they weren’t farming that has…
Work That Saved the Lives of Millions
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/07Dec22-Norman-Borlaug-Home-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In an era when most farm boys completed eighth grade at most, this family saw something in their son that…
The Old Farmhouse That Impacted the World
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/06Dec22-Norman-Borlaug-Home-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The old farmhouse that sits about a dozen miles south of Cresco, Iowa that probably appears a lot like other…
Get Your Picture Taken Here
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/09/19Sep22-American-Gothic-House-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Just about every day there are people driving to this small Iowa town to get their picture taken. It’s not…
