Category: Kentucky
Inside Fort Knox
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0507-Fort-Knox-5.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When most of us hear of Fort Knox, we think of gold. While gold is there, there is much more…
The Biggest Vault of All
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0506-Fort-Knox-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Whether you have any or not, many of us are fascinated by gold. It’s the storyline of many a tv…
Where Is the Nation’s Gold?
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0505-Fort-Knox-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Everyone knows that much of the nation’s gold is at Fort Knox. Or is it? That’s the question many wondered…
A Heavily Fortified Treasury
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0504-Fort-Knox-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ve heard of the gold at Fort Knox, and while we can’t go inside the vault, we do know much…
Moving to the Gold Standard
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0501-Fort-Knox-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)During the depths of the US Depression in the 1930s, the federal government took several steps to spur the economy. …
General Patton’s Secret Code
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0428-Boundry-Oak-Distilling-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes people will use secret codes to keep vital information from slipping into the wrong hands. General Patton used such…
History and Distilling
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0427-Boundry-Oak-Distilling-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the U.S. adopted prohibition in 1920, most alcohol production ceased, but when production resumed in the 1930s, it seems…
A Large Tree To Mark a Property Boundry
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0424-Boundry-Oak-Distilling-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You can still find some old deeds that use a large tree to mark a property boundary. Such was the…
A Struggle Engulfing Two States
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0417-Hatfield-McCoys-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In a museum in Pikeville, Kentucky you’ll find a peace treaty between the states of Kentucky and West Virginia. It…
The Hatfields and the McCoys
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0416-Hatfield-McCoys-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the end of the Civil War occurred in 1865, some of the fighting in eastern Kentucky was just getting…
Difficult Travel in the Civil War
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0415-Hatfield-McCoys-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The terrain of eastern Kentucky makes travel a bit of an adventure yet today. Roads and highways snake between the…
The Real-Life Aunt Jemima
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/03/2026-0410-Aunt-Jemima-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 2020 the use of Aunt Jemima as a brand name was discontinued due to racial stereotypes. However, the story…
The Story of Nancy Green
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/03/2026-0409-Aunt-Jemima-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the 1830s a lady named Nancy Green was born into slavery near Mt. Sterling, Kentucky. Although you may not…
A Focal Point of National Attention
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/22Oct25-Camp-Nelson-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Times of war often bring the displacement of families simply fleeing the conflict. That was the case in this country…
Camp Nelson
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/21Oct25-Camp-Nelson-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1863 and 1864 a place called Camp Nelson in Kentucky became a focal point for men wanting to join…
On the Wrong Side of the Line
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/20Oct25-Camp-Nelson-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the Civil War began, some citizens found that the places they lived were on the wrong side of the…
The World’s Largest Dessert
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/18Sep25-Apple-Festival-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many of us love to have a piece of apple pie and ice cream. In a moment I’ll tell you…
The Liberty Kentucky Apple Festival
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/17Sep25-Apple-Festival-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many small towns across the country have a celebration that honors the things that make that place special. In Liberty,…
Belmont State Park
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/03/18Mar22-Belmont-State-Park.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the short stretch of the Mississppi River where Missouri borders Kentucky is a spot where Civil War strategy was…
A Book That Took 13 Years to Complete
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/11May18-John-J-Audobon-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It was a massive book, both in cost and sheer size…yet it’s pages are some of the most recognized yet…
