Category: Iowa
The Pine Creek Mill
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Pine-Creek-Mill-11.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 946.5KB)People near Muscatine have always known of a place called Pine Creek Mill, but for most of the 20th century,…
A Radio Quack in Muscatine
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Muscatine-Cancer-Cure-Quack.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 945.5KB)Today we say hello to out listeners in Muscatine, IA on KWPC. Eighty years ago it was a station called…
The Car with the Hill Gear
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Muscatine-Car-Dealer.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 943.3KB)For many of Marvin Kreeger’s 84 years, he’s operated a car dealership in Muscatine, IA. It’s a successful business, but…
For Sale: A Field of Dreams
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/05/Field-of-Dreams-For-Sale.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 946.5KB)This Iowa farm family is asking $5.4 million dollars for their corn field. For that price you get the house,…
Mount Pleasant’s Old Threshers Reunion
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/12/Old-Threshers-Reunion1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 1.9MB)Today it is a farm event that easily doubles the size of this Midwestern city. But when it began back…
The Button Capitol of the World
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/12/Muscatine-Buttons1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)There’s plenty of fertile farmland along the Mississippi River at Muscatine, Iowa, but a century ago, this city was known…
The Roots of the 4-H Clover
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/11/4-H-Clover-2009.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)The 4-H Program is now over a century old and many people recognize the familiar green clover that symbolizes those…
A Midwestern POW Camp
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/10/POW-Camp-Clarinda.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 955.9KB)They were prisoners of war, yet they were paid for their work; many of them forged friendships with the locals…
The Father of the Green Revolution
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/09/Norman-Borlaug-2009.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 953.9KB)One news anchored reported that this man may be responsible for saving more lives than anyone in the 20th Century….
