Category: Kentucky
The Packhorse Librarians
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/06/2026-0702-Packhorse-Librarians-2-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was known as the Packhorse Library Project. During the years of the Great Depression, many young ladies answered the…
Rural Bookmobiles
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/06/2026-0701-Packhorse-Librarians-1-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ll still find bookmobiles that bring books to rural schools and libraries. In a moment, I’ll take you to an…
The Ride of Jack Jouett
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/05/2026-0615-Jack-Juett-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You no doubt have heard of Paul Revere. However, you’ve probably not heard of Jack Jouett. When you hear the…
Jefferson’s Escape from Certain Capture
It was June of 1881 and British troops were advancing on the home of future president Thomas Jefferson – in fact, they were under a…
Helping the Founding Fathers In the Revolution
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/05/2026-0611-Jack-Juett-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There’s a good chance you’ve not heard of Jack Jouett, yet he may have been the man who saved some…
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…
