Category: Miscellaneous
A Story of Survival at Pearl Harbor
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/10Dec12-Pearl-Harbor-Wilbur-Wright-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:56 — 1.3MB)He was a survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Interestingly, his ship was not hit by a torpedo, yet…
A Six Year Tour in Honolulu
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/07Dec12-Pearl-Harbor-Wilbur-Wright-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:57 — 1.4MB)Before 1941, Pearl Harbor was a place unknown to many Americans. That was certainly the case for Wilbur Wright, an…
Camp Floyd
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/06Dec12-Camp-Floyd-Utah-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:57 — 1.4MB)For three years, 3500 soldiers served alongside one another in Utah Territory. It was the largest military outpost in the…
A Three Year Stay with No Military Action
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/05Dec12-Camp-Floyd-Utah-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 1.4MB)In the summer of 1858, U.S. soldiers went to Utah to put down a supposed Mormon rebellion. However, their three…
Sending Troops to a Troubled Spot
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/04Dec12-Camp-Floyd-Utah-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:57 — 1.3MB)In 1857, rumors of rebellion made to the oval office. President James Buchanan ordered troops to head to the trouble…
The Dalton Gang
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/03Dec12-Dalton-Gang.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.7MB)Today these streets and the adjacent alley are peaceful avenues lines with small town businesses. The fall of 1892, it…
One of the Most Sobering Stories of World War II
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/30Nov12-USS-Indianapolis-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 1.4MB)When Japan surrendered to the United States, Americans rejoiced to know the conflict was coming to an end. Buried in…
A Survivor from the Worst Loss of Life at Sea in US Naval History
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/29Nov12-USS-Indianapolis-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 1.4MB)Of the many stories we’ve covered, our programs this week tell the story of the worst loss of life at…
A Top Secret Cargo Across the Pacific
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/28Nov12-USS-Indianapolis-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 1.4MB)As August of 1945 neared, one ship took a top secret cargo across the Pacific. For the men of the…
The Story of the USS Indianapolis
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/27Nov12-USS-Indianapolis-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)He grew up in the heart of the Midwest, but during World War II, his life at sea would become…
Buffalo Bill
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/26Nov12-Buffalo-Bill.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.1MB)Before he was known as Buffalo Bill, he was simply William Cody. We all assume he must have some connection…
Mailing A Building…One Brick at a Time
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/23Nov12-Bank-of-Vernal.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)It was a mail shipment so large that it overwhelmed a tiny post office and caused the postal service to…
From Civil War to World War Service
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/22Nov12-USS-Constellation.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:31 — 1.1MB)She was built in 1854, and 100 years later, she was still serving in the US Navy…..
Arbor Day Farm
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/21Nov12-Arbor-Day-Farm-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.1MB)Today corn and soybeans can be used for much more than just a food and feed ingredient for people and…
Dawson Dolly
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/19Nov12-Dawson-Dolly.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:31 — 1.2MB)Skagway, Alaska has a wealth of history from its gold mining days. One of the personalities who shares that story…
Promoting Agriculture with a Holiday
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/20Nov12-Arbor-Day-Farm-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)You probably know this gentleman’s son for the salt company he founded that bears his name. But the father was…
You Don’t Have to Go to Hawaii to See Hula Girls
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/16Nov12-Hulaville.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.1MB)Most people think you need to go to Hawaii to see hula girls. Not so. In fact, it was one…
A Museum of Salt and Pepper Shakers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/11/15Nov12-Salt-Pepper-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:33 — 1.2MB)We sometimes bill our program as a slice of Americana…and today’s broadcast certainly fills that theme. We visit with a…
Conquering the Barrier to Progress
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/14Nov12-Victorville-California.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.1MB)When trains and cars made their way westward to Los Angeles, they encountered an obstacle between San Bernardino and Barstow….
The Hunter Dawson Mansion
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/13Nov12-Hunter-Dawson.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 2.3MB)In the days just ahead of the Civil War, one prominent young lady in New Madrid, Missouri built a grand…
