Category: Michigan
The Mission Point Lighthouse
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/11/13Nov24-Mission-Point-Lighthouse-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Drive north from Traverse City, Michigan and you’ll find beautiful fruit orchards on a narrow peninsula that dead ends at…
A Northwest Michigan Lighthouse
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/11/12Nov24-Mission-Point-Lighthouse-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Great Lakes shoreline is dotted with many old lighthouses. Many are not needed these days, but most have great…
A Homecoming Dance Like None Other
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/09/30Sep24-Cadillac-Michigan-KISS-Football-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There perhaps has never been a homecoming dance like the 1975 Cadillac, Michigan version. The students and the entire town…
Music Ahead of the Football Game
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/09/27Sep24-Cadillac-Michigan-KISS-Football-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many high school sports teams warm up to specific music and that was the case for the Cadillac, Michigan football…
The Home of the Gerber Family
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/08/26Aug24-Gerber-House-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When you hear the name, “Gerber,” you perhaps immediately think of baby food. The home where the family lived and…
What Started As a Kitchen Argument
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/08/23Aug24-Gerber-House-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It all began with an argument in the kitchen. What resulted is something that is commonplace today, but was a…
The Friends Good Will
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/08/22Aug24-Friends-Good-WIll.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)For a ship that was in service less than five years, she had quite a story. What began as a…
South Haven
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/08/21Aug24-South-Haven-Michigan.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This town sits on the opposite side of Lake Michigan as the city of Chicago. Yet, this much smaller place…
The Presidential Limo Collection
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/18May23-Presidential-Limo-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)March 30th, 1981. After delivering a speech at the Washington Hilton Hotel, President Ronald Regan was hit by a bullet…
President Kenney’s Limo
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/17May23-Presidential-Limo-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may have heard people say that president Kennedy would have never been assassinated in Dallas if he ordered the…
Origins of the Presidential Limo
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/16May23-Presidential-Limo-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we begin a three part series on one of the most luxurious and secure automobiles in America – the…
Moving the Birthplace of America?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/15May23-Henry-Ford-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The birthplace of America is often considered to be Independence Hall, the site of the signing of the Declaration of…
The Henry Ford
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/12May23-Henry-Ford-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Edison, Ford and Firestone. They are some of the best known inventors and businessmen of the 20th century. But not…
Remember the Raisin!
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/03/21Mar23-River-Raisin-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We all recall the battle cry, “Remember the Alamo” but over 200 years ago it was “Remember the Raisin!” So…
When Did the War of 1812 Begin?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/03/20Mar23-River-Raisin-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s long been said that the only thing most Americans can tell you about the War of 1812 is what…
Monroe, Michigan’s Tragic Tie to the Little Bighorn
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/03/09Mar23-Monroe-Michigan-Custer-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When news of the defeat at the Little Bighorn reached Monroe, Michigan, this town had an extra reason to morn. …
The Story of a Very Famous Table
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/03/08Mar23-Monroe-Michigan-Custer-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are several portraits that show the surrender of General Lee to General Grant at Appomattox. Those scenes usually display…
Custer’s Hometown
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/03/07Mar23-Monroe-Michigan-Custer-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We know him for the battle at the Little Bighorn. But to know just that one fact is to miss…
Bronner’s Christmas Store
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/22Dec22-Bronners-Christmas-Store.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If Santa Claus needed a place to buy all of his decorations, this would be it. It’s big business in…
Its’ the Largest Island, in the Largest Lake, on the Largest island, in the Largest Lake
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/09/21Sep22-Isle-Royal-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Concentrate on this piece of geographical trivia. It’s the largest island, in the largest lake, on the largest island, in…
