Category: Michigan
A Museum Devoted to Wrecks
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/12/05Dec17-Great-Lakes-Shipwreck-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you don’t slow down, you might have a wreck. Here, if you don’t slow down, heed the weather, the…
Exploring the Ships Around the Soo Locks
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/12/04Dec17-Valley-Camp-Sault-Ste-Marie-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you venture to Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, you may go to see the Soo Locks. Some folks also want…
Valley Camp
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/11/01Dec17-Valley-Camp-Sault-Ste-Marie-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s called the Valley Camp, and no it’s not a campground and no it’s not in a valley. But that’s…
The Oldest City in Michigan
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/11/30Nov17-Valley-Camp-Sault-Ste-Marie-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)What is the oldest city in Michigan? We’ll give you a moment to ponder the answer and the founder and…
Win One For the Gipper
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/08Nov17-Gipper-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:03 — 2.1MB) You most likely know this football player, not for what he did on the gridiron, but instead for what…
A Multi-Sport Star Known For Football
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/07Nov17-Gipper-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB) He was one of the nation’s first multi-sport stars but you know him for football and the movie that…
Notre Dame Without a High School Diploma
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/06Nov17-Gipper-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)He went to Notre Dame, despite the fact he did not have a High School diploma. And once he got…
Something Glittering After a Rain
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/07/11Aug17-Iron-Mine-Tour-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There was something glittering on the ground after a big rain. It wasn’t gold, but it was certainly interesting. So…
Digging An Ore Mine To Drum Up Business
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/07/10Aug17-Iron-Mine-Tour-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Many a business has thought of unique ideas to drum up new customers. So what did one group of hotel…
The First Snow Skiing Club
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/07/09Aug17-Ishpeming-Ski-Jump-5.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It would be hard to identify the very person that ever began snow skiing. The concept has been around for…
Flying…With a Little Bravery Mixed In
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/07/08Aug17-Ishpeming-Ski-Jump-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)For centuries humans have desired to zoom into the air like birds. But how do you get that feeling when…
Kids Flying Above the Ground
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/07/07Aug17-Ishpeming-Ski-Jump-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many people say that kids need to be more active. And, if you want a kid to excel in sports…
A Different Purpose for the Doghouse
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/07/04Aug17-Ishpeming-Ski-Jump-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Kids can sometimes come up with fantastic and perhaps, unwise stunts to pass their time around home. Such was the…
A Perfect Place for Snow Sports
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/07/03Aug17-Ishpeming-Ski-Jump-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Depending on where you live in the nation, certain sports may be more popular than others. When you live in…
Moving a Fort to a Better Location
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/07/02Aug17-Mackinaw-Fort-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Forts are often built to defend a military position. But when your fort is not in the best location for…
An Innocent Game of Lacrosse
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/07/01Aug17-Mackinaw-Fort-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It seemed like an innocent game of lacrosse. A group of men invited locals to come watch what was billed…
A Strategic Fort Location
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/07/31Jul17-Mackinaw-Fort-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today it is a well-known summer vacation spot. Turn back the clock about three centuries and people would have known…
Where Santa Gets His Decorations
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/20Dec16-Bronners-Christmas-Wonderland.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)If Santa Claus needed a place to buy all of his decorations, this would be it. It’s big business in…
A Shipwreck That Still Influences Today
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/11Nov15-Edmund-Fitzgerald-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Each November 10th, the bell here in Whitefish Point will chime 29 times for the crew that died aboard the…
The Mystery of the Edmund Fitzgerald
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/10Nov15-Edmund-Fitzgerald-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It’s a mystery that is now 40 years old…a mystery that lives on through a song that tells the story…