Category: Michigan
A Dangerous Place for Ships
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/09Nov15-Edmund-Fitzgerald-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:05 — 2.1MB)If you come here to the shores of Lake Superior in the summer, you are likely to find lovely waters…
The Soo
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/16Oct15-Soo-Locks-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Locals often simply call it “The Soo.” Ships know the place for the locks that help move them from one…
Watching the Ships Pass By
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/15Oct15-Soo-Locks-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)The ships here are moving so slowly, it’s sometime difficult to tell if they are in fact moving at all. …
Overcoming Big Obstacles
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/14Oct15-Soo-Locks-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Before highways crisscrossed this nation, rivers often provided the best road to move cargo and passengers. But some of those…
The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/13Aug15-Great-Lakes-Shipwreck-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Perhaps it’s fitting that you have to go a bit out of the way to find the Great Lakes Shipwreck…
A Fear on Lake Superior
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/12Aug15-Great-Lakes-Shipwreck-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Some sailors and airman have long feared the Bermuda Triangle for the mysterious fate of some who have passed there. …
Whitefish Point
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/11Aug15-Great-Lakes-Shipwreck-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)On a road map, it’s simply listed as “Whitefish Point.” That place name has little significance to most, but for…
Going to Hell
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/07/18Jul14-Hell-Michigan.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We go to great lengths to gather the stories you here on this program…and this time we literally went to…
The Inventor of the First Automobile
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/07/17Jul14-Elwood-Haynes.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Who invented the first automobile? You might be surprised that it wasn’t Henry Ford…but this man from Kokomo, Indiana…
A Store For the Holidays
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/02Dec13-Holiday-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. This big business in…
Protecting a President
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/05/13May13-Presidential-Limo-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)After delivering a speech at the Washington Hilton Hotel, President Ronald Regan was hit by a bullet fired by John…
President Kennedy’s Bubbletop Car
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/10May13-Presidential-Limo-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)You may have heard people say that President Kennedy would have never been assassinated in Dallas if he ordered the…
A Luxurious and Secure Automobile Collection
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/09May13-Presidential-Limo-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Today we begin a three part series on one of the most luxurious and secure automobiles in America – the…
A Great Collection of Buildings
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/08May13-Henry-Ford-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)The birthplace of America is often considered to be Independence Hall, the site of the signing of the Declaration of…
Three Men – One Amazing Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/07May13-Henry-Ford-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)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/2013/02/20Mar13-River-Raisin-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)We all recall the battle cry, “Remember the Alamo” but 200 years ago it was “Remember the Raisin!” So what…
A Family With Military History
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/11Mar13-Custer-Monroe-Michigan-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)When news of the defeat at the Little Bighorn reached Monroe, Michigan, this town had an extra reason to mourn….
The Holiday Christmas Store
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/12/Holiday-Christmas-Store.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)If Santa Claus needed a place to buy all of his decorations, this would be it. It’s big business in…
A Store for the Holidays
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/23Dec10-Holiday-Christmas-Store.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)If Santa Claus needed a place to buy all of his decorations, this would be it. This big business in…
Christmas Wonderland
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/12/Holiday-Christmas-Store.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)If Santa Clause needed a place to buy all of his ornaments and decorations, this would be it. It’s big…
