Category: Iowa
A Picture of a Sister and Dentist
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/09/16Sep22-American-Gothic-House-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If an artist painted a picture of his sister and his dentist, you’d probably doubt it would be anything special. …
Escape from the Squirrel Cage Jail
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/07/02Aug22-Squirrel-Cage-Jail-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Prisoners have used many different methods to escape from their cells. A man in this jail crawled through pipes of…
Hamsters in a Prison Wheel
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/07/01Aug22-Squirrel-Cage-Jail-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you seem to be busy, but going nowhere in life, you might be said to be a “hamster in…
Coming Home to the Place That Held You Captive
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/13May22-Camp-Algona-Iowa-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s hard to imagine being held as a prisoner of war and then, after the war, immigrating to the country…
Camp Algona Iowa
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/12May22-Camp-Algona-Iowa-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Over the years you’ve heard us feature some towns in the heartland of America that served as POW camps during…
Jubilee Days in Shenandoah, Iowa
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/11May22-KMA-Radio-History.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine hosting a breakfast so large that you needed to buy pancake flour by the boxcar. That’s exactly what happened…
Small Town, Big Impact
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/20Apr22-Perry-Iowa-100-Plus-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Four times each year a group of people in Perry, Iowa are writing $100 checks to an important local cause…
One Hundred Plus for Perry
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/19Apr22-Perry-Iowa-100-Plus-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s called One Hundred Plus for Perry. Although local residents can’t take credit for the idea, they adapted in from…
Grotto of the Redemption
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/18Apr22-Grotto-of-the-Redemption-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It took 80 years to build this structure in West Bend, IA and today it is valued in the millions…
A Story for Good Friday
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/15Apr22-Grotto-of-the-Redemption-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It is a story fitting for the message of Good Friday – the story of a priest who recovered from…
The Work of the Wallace Family
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/01/28Jan22-Henry-Wallace.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This father and son pair both served as the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. The son even became vice president of…
The First Great Train Robbery
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/01/27Jan22-Jesse-James-Train-Robbery.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Great train robberies are the stuff of wild west movies. In real life though, the first such event occurred here. …
From Car Trunks to Airplanes
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/01/26Jan22-Iowa-Aviation-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)For the past few days we’ve taken a look back at a stop I made in Greenfield, Iowa, home to…
He Could Have Beaten Lindbergh
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/01/25Jan22-Iowa-Aviation-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Charles Lindbergh was the first person to fly an airplane across the Atlantic Ocean. But lost in our history books…
First Flight Off of a Ship
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/01/24Jan22-Iowa-Aviation-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today, aircraft carriers and the planes they transport play a vital role in country’s military might. However, have you ever…
A Gift from Prisoners
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/12/24Dec21-Algona-Nativity-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In Algona, Iowa there is a nativity scene that has been on display for over 75 years. It was a…
The Nativity Scene That is Always Set Up
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/12/23Dec21-Algona-Nativity-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)During the advent season, many families and churches will set up Nativity scenes. The figures remind us of the birth…
The Oakley and the Hills of Muscatine
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/12/17Dec21-Muscatine-Car-Dealer.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)For many years Marvin Kreiger operated a car dealership in Muscatine, Iowa. Today, we take a look back at a…
The Thing That Put Muscatine on the Map
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/12/15Dec21-Muscatine-Pearl-Buttons.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There’s plenty of fertile farmland along the Mississippi River here. But a century ago, this city was known for something…
New Melleray’s Caskets
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/05Nov21-New-Mellary-Abbey-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When people began attending funeral’s here, many had the exact same reaction. They mentioned that when they passed, they wanted…
