Category: Michigan
The McGulpin Point Lighthouse
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/12/16Dec24-McGulpin-Point-Lighthouse-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many lighthouses are today just historical pieces that harken to the days when lights kept burning through the night to…
The Tip of the Mitt
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/12/13Dec24-McGulpin-Point-Lighthouse-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many have heard of Plymouth Rock, the famous landing spot of the Pilgrims. But at the northern tip of 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…
