http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/24Jun21-Leavenworth-Historical-Society-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It is the “First City of Kansas.”  The reason it achieved that status was because of an important fort that…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/23Jun21-CW-Park-Carousel-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A husband is supposed to give his bride a gift on her birthday, anniversary, Christmas…well, they should probably be giving…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/22Jun21-CW-Park-Carousel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When most people think of this town they perhaps remember one of two things – a fort or a major…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/21Jun21-CW-Park-Carousel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)CW Parker moved from Illinois to Kansas and his first career was hand digging wells.  However, he began to take…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/16Jun21-The-Dalton-Gang-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today these streets and the adjacent alley are peaceful avenues lines with small town businesses.  The fall of 1892, it…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/15Jun21-The-Dalton-Gang-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Bob, Emmit and Grat…three brothers that returned to their hometown to do business…but the business to be transacted would cost…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/04/19May21-Father-Mike-Gould-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Buying a plane seemed like a good idea.  Then again, Mike Gould didn’t know how to fly.  It turned out…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/04/18May21-Father-Mike-Gould-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s been nearly seventy years since Mike Gould was assigned to work in Bolivia.  He’s spent almost all of those…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/02/03Mar21-Evel-Knievel-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There was no stunt he wouldn’t consider.  And because of his daredevil nature, some have called him the first, real-life…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/02/02Mar21-Evel-Knievel-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There was always something new he just had to try.  Something different that would excite and audience and bring out…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/02/01Mar21-Evel-Knievel-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It all began with a motorcycle jump in a local parade that went awry.  Soon snakes were slithering towards spectators…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/02/11Feb21-Kansas-Salt-Mine-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It could be a cellar, an attic or even a storage unit.  Many of us have a place to keep…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/02/10Feb21-Kansas-Salt-Mine-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Movie companies have been shooting film for over a century and most of them didn’t want to get rid of…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/02/09Feb21-Kansas-Salt-Mine-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)During World War II a group of soldiers and civilians worked to locate and rescue valuable items confiscated by Hitler’s…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/12/14Dec20-Great-Bend-History-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are a couple of landmarks on the edges of Great Bend, Kansas that can tell you a lot about…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/12/11Dec20-Great-Bend-History.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Two centuries ago, it could be a long trip to find the merchandise you wanted or needed.  And that fact…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/12/10Dec20-Great-Bend-Hotrod-Dragstrip-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Baseball fans may long of a trip to see Wrigley Field or Fenway Park.  Football fans probably want to visit…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/12/09Dec20-Great-Bend-Hotrod-Dragstrip-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we say hello to our listeners on KVGB in Great Bend, KS.  Listeners there know that the old army…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/12/08Dec20-Kansas-Cosmophere-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You might pick up a bargain at a garage sale.  That’s kind of what the folks in Hutchinson, Kansas did,…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/12/07Dec20-Kansas-Cosmophere-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It all began in the poultry building at the Kansas State Fairgrounds.  That was the beginning of one of the…