Category: Kansas
Remembering Flight 599 on the Kansas Prairie
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/20Aug15-Knute-Rockne-Memorial-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He was perhaps an unlikely tour guide and an even more unlikely person to be recognized by cheering crowds and…
The Knute Rockne Tragedy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/19Aug15-Knute-Rockne-Memorial-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)It’s been over eighty years since Knute Rockne walked the football sidelines at Notre Dame. However, phrases like “Win one…
Crash in the Flint Hills
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/18Aug15-Knute-Rockne-Memorial-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was an unlikely spot for a national story – the Flint Hills of Kansas in the early 1930s. A…
Raising $4 Million In a County With Only 3 Thousand People
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/07Aug15-Cottonwood-Falls-Courthouse-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A county of only about three thousand people was tasked with a major challenge. They needed to raise about $4…
A $40,000 Architectural Masterpiece
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/05Aug15-Cottonwood-Falls-Courthouse-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It only cost $40,000 to build this architectural masterpiece. Of course, that was about 150 years ago, but the small…
A Building Beautiful Inside and Out
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/06Aug15-Cottonwood-Falls-Courthouse-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)I’ve seen many courthouses in my journeys, but this one has to be one of the most amazing. Beautiful inside…
Napoleon’s Link to Concordia, Kansas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/28Jul15-Concordia-Brown-Grand-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Most of us recognize the name Napoleon Bonaparte as that of a famous French general. But for the residents of…
An Opera House In Rural America
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/27Jul15-Concordia-Brown-Grand-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Today you don’t see many opera stars performing in rural America. But a century ago, the name on many buildings…
Escapees With Nowhere to Go
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/24Jul15-Concordia-POW-Camp-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)At first glance, housing enemy soldiers in low security camps in the Midwest may not have seemed wise. But for…
Prisoners of War in the Midwest
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/23Jul15-Concordia-POW-Camp-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)During World War II thousands of enemy soldiers taken as prisoners of war where housed in hastily built camps in…
A Place Surprising To Both Sides
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/22Jul15-Concordia-POW-Camp-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When the Allies began the fight against Germany in World War II, they began to take prisoners of war. Some…
Abraham Lincoln’s Furthest West Visit
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/06Apr15-Troy-Kansas-Lincoln-Visit.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)People often associate Abraham Lincoln with the states of Illinois or perhaps his birthplace in Kentucky. But what state is…
A Work of Art for Every State
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/03Apr15-Troy-Kansas-Peter-Toth-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)To some, they resemble totem poles, but the works of art are more modern and quite intricate. At least one…
Peter Toth’s Lasting Impression
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/02Apr15-Troy-Kansas-Peter-Toth-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)Peter Toth was just a boy when his family was forced to leave Hungary. The event left a lasting impression…
A Place For Pony Express Riders to Stay
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/09/07Oct14-Hollenberg-Pony-Express-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The pony express was in operation for just a little over a year, however the story of horses and riders racing…
Location, Location, Location
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/09/06Oct14-Hollenberg-Pony-Express-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They say that in real estate, the three most important things are location, location, location. That was true even in the…
El Cuartelejo
Near Kansas’ border with Colorado you can find a place called El Cuartelejo. It’s the ruins of an ancient home who’s occupants were on the run from…
Pueblo Dwellings in Kansas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/08/02Sep14-Scott-City-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In western Kansas you can find the foundations for an old Native American settlement. Perhaps that doesn’t seem too out of…
A Natural Wonder of Kansas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/08/01Sep14-Monument-Rocks.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s one of the natural wonders of Kansas. A place of white spires rising from the prairie plains that have been…
The Rights to a Famous Cowboy Song
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/07Aug14-Home-on-the-Range-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)In the 1930s a cowboy song began to get quite a bit of air time on radio stations. But suddenly…
