Category: Iowa
Remembering Five Brothers from Waterloo
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/11/10Nov20-Sullivan-Brothers-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)After the attack on Pearl Harbor, many young men in the country rushed to join the military to fight for…
A Different Cemetery
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/10/05Nov20-Hobo-Museum-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In Britt, Iowa you’ll find a section of the town’s cemetery that looks different than the rest. The stones are…
Luring a Convention
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/10/04Nov20-Hobo-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Lots of cities work to lure conventions to town. They may offer several amenities to take advantage of the economic…
Catching a Train Ride on a No Budget Trip
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/10/03Nov20-Hobo-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was quite an adventure. Shorty and Frog caught and westbound train and were headed over the Rocky Mountains and…
A Visit with Hobos
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/10/02Nov20-Hobo-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When I told my son on a recent trip that we were going to stop and visit with a couple…
Putting Hats on the Map
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/08/19Aug20-Iowa-Hat-Lady-2020-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)People always ask who is the most interesting person I’ve interviewed? It’s a question with many answers, and most of…
The Hat Lady, Alvina Sellers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/08/18Aug20-Iowa-Hat-Lady-2020-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Dr. Suess wrote the cat in the hat, but he should have consulted an expert like Alvina Sellers for background…
The National Championship Pedal Pull
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/12Sep19-Pedal-Pull-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Every September kids from across the country come to the Corn Palace to compete in this national championship. It’s a…
Another Way to Invest Your Retirement Money
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/11Sep19-Pedal-Pull-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)People decide to do a multitude of things with their retirement money. Ken Meyers decided to invest his in something…
Everything Is For Sale
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/08/05Sep19-Auctioneer-Jared-Miller-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)What’s the most difficult genre of items for an auctioneer to sell? That depends on the auctioneer you ask but…
The Best Auctioneer
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/08/04Sep19-Auctioneer-Jared-Miller-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The chant of an auctioneer – it is the sounds that calls for bids and brings items to their top…
The Story of Kate Shelley
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/14Nov18-Kate-Shelley-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)If you live in the state of Iowa you perhaps know the name of Kate Shelly. At one time she…
Disaster Lurking in the Darkness
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/13Nov18-Kate-Shelley-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)There was a disaster lurking in the darkness. A rail bridge had washed out and a passenger train would soon…
The History of a Popular Apple
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/07/19Jul18-Red-Delicious-Apples-2018.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)It’s one of the world’s most popular varieties of fruit and we have it because one farmer couldn’t get a…
The First Professional African American Baseball Player
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/05Jun18-Bud-Fowler-Keokuk-Baseball-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Who was the first African American major league baseball player. Most say Jackie Robinson. However, residents of this town say…
Keokuk, Iowa–Major League Baseball Town?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/04Jun18-Bud-Fowler-Keokuk-Baseball-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)You probably don’t think of Keokuk, Iowa as a town that could support a Major League Baseball team. But that…
A Small Chapter of the Civil War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/09/29Sept17-Keokuk-Famous-People.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Whether you are a student of history or not, we each know something about the Civil War. However, the next…
A Rock Festival
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/09/28Sept17-Keokuk-Geodes-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A lot of cities will hold a festival centered around rock – but we’re not talking about rock music. For…
An Odd Rock With An Odd Name
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/09/27Sept17-Keokuk-Geodes-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The name of this rock is just as odd as it looks. Yet it is a rock that puts this…
The Barns With An Important Link to the Past
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/03Feb17-Maasdan-Barns-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)At one time these old barns were hard to see because of the trees and weeds that attempted to engulf…
