Category: Missouri
An Iconic Moment in Presidential Election History
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/08Nov24-Harry-Truman-Election-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s one of the most iconic pictures in presidential election history. A picture of President Harry Truman holding up a…
Harry Truman’s Hopeful Campaign
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/07Nov24-Harry-Truman-Election-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the summer of 1948 Harry Truman was losing the race to return for a second term as president. But…
Expecting a Different Election Outcome
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/06Nov24-Harry-Truman-Election-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was the day after the voting had ended and people woke up to find a different person was elected…
The Spook Light
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/30Oct24-Spook-Light-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)People like to have answers…and perhaps that’s what makes this phenomena so interesting…there seems to be no explaining it. So…
A Story With World-Wide Fame
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/29Oct24-Spook-Light-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)I don’t care for stories about evil and gruesomeness at Halloween, yet a spooky tale may be in order. For…
A Strange Log Cabin
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/08/11Sep24-St-Genevieve-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We’ve all seen a log cabin. Such structures were the norm for many Americans early in the country’s history. But…
Missouri’s Oldest Town
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/08/10Sep24-St-Genevieve-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When these French Catholics learned that the British Protestants had taken over, they weren’t pleased. It may be the reason…
When the Circuses Came to Town
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/26Jul24-William-Preston-Hall-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Lancaster, Missouri is not a big town, but in the 1920s, the circuses came to town. And yes, I did…
The Horse King of the World
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/25Jul24-William-Preston-Hall-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some called him the Horse King of the World. It was fitting title for a man who literally bought and…
William Preston Hall
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/24Jul24-William-Preston-Hall-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)William Preston Hall lost both of his parents by the age of 15. He worked hard to make a living…
Leaving a Favorable Impression
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/04/22Apr24-Brookfield-John-WIlkes-Booth-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Everyone knows John Wilkes Booth as the assassin of President Lincoln. However, before his deadly deed in April 1865, he…
Christmas City, USA
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/12/25Dec23-Noel-Missouri-Post-Office.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)At Christmas we may sing, “The First Noel.” In the United States, this is the “Only Noel.” Confused? Join me…
Double Service Daniel Boone
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/07Nov23-St-Louis-History-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Daniel Boone is one of the most famous American frontiersman. But when he crossed the Mississippi River, he went to…
History of St. Louis
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/06Nov23-St-Louis-History-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s one of the oldest and largest cities on the Mississippi River…and although some may have heard of names like…
More Than Peanut Butter
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/25Aug23-George-Washington-Carver-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may know him for just one thing…peanut butter…but in a moment you’ll see just how much this man accomplished. …
One of the Most Famous Agricultural Scientists
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/24Aug23-George-Washington-Carver-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He is one of the most famous agricultural scientists…a man who was born a slave and struggled to find a…
A Place That’s a Little Peculiar
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/04Aug23-Peculiar-Missouri.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Not all of us can live in a normal place. While most of the nation lives in cities that aren’t…
Hitchhiking Your Way To College
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/22Jun23-Raymond-Hagan-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It can be difficult to earn the money needed to get a college education. Raymond Hagan graduated high school in…
The Struggle Just to Get to School
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/21Jun23-Raymond-Hagan-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we take things like a high school education for granted. If you want a diploma, you usually have access…
Hitchhiking to Meet the Civil War Drummer Boy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/25May23-Milt-Torati-Veteran-Stories-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)I will confess, there are some interviews for this show that sent me driving hundreds of miles just to meet…
