Category: Minnesota
One of Two Vertical Woolen Mills
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/01/13Jan22-Faribault-Woollen-Mill-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are only two vertical woolen mills remaining in the U.S. One has been in this town since the days…
Buying a Century Old Business
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/01/12Jan22-Faribault-Woollen-Mill-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Paul Mooty says if he drove his own car one day back in 2011 down to Faribault, Minnesota, he might…
Using a Horse-Walked Treadmill to Produce Wool Blankets
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/01/11Jan22-Faribault-Woollen-Mill-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine a time when a horse walked a treadmill to help power the machines that produced wool blankets for early…
An Inspiration Along I-35
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/12/22Dec21-Faribault-Christmas-Tree-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Jerry Lageson is very well known for what he does every Christmas. He never set out to be popular or…
Jerry’s Christmas Tree
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/12/21Dec21-Faribault-Christmas-Tree-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)On the surface it would seem Jerry has an easy Christmas lighting situation. He puts lights on just one tree…
History Alive! Lanesboro, MN
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/11/29Nov21-Lanesboro-MN-History-Alive.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Jane loved history and the performing arts and when she found herself in this town of under 1000 people she…
Sleeping in the Feed Mill
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/11/17Nov21-Lanesboro-MN-Stone-Mill-Hotel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most farming towns have a least one feed mill and Lanesboro, Minnesota is no exception. However, one of those feed…
The Tourist Town That Blossomed – A Century Later
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/11/16Nov21-Lanesboro-MN-Stone-Mill-Hotel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In southeastern Minnesota you’ll find a rolling landscape known as the Driftless area, and within that region there’s a town…
Reviving Small Town Theatres
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/07/27Jul21-Fairbault-Paradise-Center-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many small towns lost their old theatres and opera houses over the years. It some cases they were torn down,…
Paradise Center – Faribault
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/07/26Jul21-Fairbault-Paradise-Center-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A theatre with a Moroccan-style courtyard may seem out of place in southern Minnesota, but this town has not only…
The Bishop who Persuaded Lincoln
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/05Apr21-Fairbault-Minnesota-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The situation was bad, for all involved. But what was about to take place in Minnesota was an injustice to…
A New Bishop For a New State
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/02Apr21-Fairbault-Minnesota-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Henry Whipple perhaps had no plans to move west as a young man. But when he married, his wife encouraged…
Where the Straight Cannon Rivers Unite
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/01Apr21-Fairbault-Minnesota-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today the meeting of the Straight and Cannon Rivers is probably not as important as it was 200 years ago,…
The Founder of Faribault
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/31Mar21-Fairbault-Minnesota-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He was born on the frontier, and the frontier life is perhaps all he ever knew. So it should be…
Names Carved in Stone
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/01/22Jan21-Alexandria-MN-Veterans-Memorial.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There is something about seeing someone’s name in stone. That may be on a grave side marker, or in this…
Finding a Place on the Lake
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/01/21Jan21-Alexandria-MN-Legacy-of-Lakes-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A lot of people enjoy heading to the lake. In fact, some like it so much, they buy land or…
Home of the Lakes
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/01/20Jan21-Alexandria-MN-Legacy-of-Lakes-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Lots of people head to the lake for summer vacation. That’s certainly the case in this county, but unlike a…
Working Together at Pipestone
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/03/26Mar18-Pipestone.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This place is so important in native American culture, that even when warring tribes arrived here, they put down their…
A Farmer on the Big Screen
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/30Jul14-Farmland-Movie.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Most farmers would not consider themselves movie stars. This Minnesota hog farmer certainly doesn’t. However, that hasn’t stopped him from…
More on Lake Bemidji
Wednesday’s show featured information on the statue of Paul Bunyan and Babe, his trusty blue ox sidekick, on the shores of Lake Bemidji. That’s a…
