Category: Missouri
A Motel With a Radio in Every Room
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/16May18-Boots-Court-Motel-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This motel advertisers a “radio in every room.” Perhaps it doesn’t sound too elegant, but it’s doing a nice business…
Movie Stars on Wide-Open Roads
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/15May18-Boots-Court-Motel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There was a time when the movie stars of the day did not fly to their destination, but rather drove…
Searching for the Crossroads of the Nation
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/14May18-Boots-Court-Motel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)He was a man in search of the crossroads of the nation. For of course, that would be the best…
Man’s Best Friend
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/04/02May18-Old-Drum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)We’ve all heard of man’s best friend…but it was this dog that probably gave us the phrase so common today. …
A Famous Canine
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/04/02May18-Old-Drum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In the courthouse square in Warrensburg, Missouri you will find a statue in tribute to a dog named Old Drum. …
A Career That Brings Romance
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/04/26Apr18-Cherry-Mash-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Barry Yantis’ family has been in this family business since the days of World War II. It’s a career that…
The 100th Birthday of a Candy Bar
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/04/25Apr18-Cherry-Mash-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When you rank candy bars by the date they were first introduced, this would be the third oldest in the…
A Mercantile Company That Invented
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/04/24Apr18-Cherry-Mash-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It was in 1876 a new mercantile company began business. It may not sound that significant if not for one…
50 Years of Broadcasting Major League Baseball
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/04/13Apr18-Denny-Matthews-50th-Season-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)162 games a year for 50 years…that’s over 8000 baseball games…and this man has seen virtually every single one of…
Keeping the Listener Interested Calling a Ballgame
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/04/12Apr18-Denny-Matthews-50th-Season-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When a baseball broadcaster has to describe a game that is lackluster at best, they may resort to talking about…
Getting a Mule to Obey
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/04/11Apr18-Wilbur-Taylor-Mules-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Mules can be stubborn. So what do you do with a mule that simply won’t obey? Wilbur was told what…
A Medic Caring for Four Legs
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/04/10Apr18-Wilbur-Taylor-Mules-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Medics are an important part of an army, taking care of the wounded on the front lines, risking their own…
Taking Skills from the Farm to War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/04/09Apr18-Wilbur-Taylor-Mules-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Like many young American men in the 1940s, Wilbur Taylor was headed to war. But his job would be a…
More Than Two Blocks of Murals
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/03/16Mar17-Cape-Girardeau-River-Mural-2018.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Michelangelo had a very large canvass when he began work on the Sistine chapel. Make a trip to this river…
Where Civil War Engineers Ran Out of Names
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/03/15Mar17-Cape-Girardeau-Civil-War-2018.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Civil War engineers were simply running out of names…but that doesn’t mean the forts here were not important. It’s a…
Rememberance of the Trail of Tears
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/03/14Mar17-Pulaski-County-Route-66-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Many of us have heard of the Trail of Tears. This community chose to honor those who were forced to…
A Long Stretch of Original Route 66
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/03/13Mar17-Pulaski-County-Route-66-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Old Route 66 is a major tourist attraction in many communities along the highway. But here you’ll find some of…
Wildlife That Draws People Here
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/03/12Mar17-Pulaski-County-Wildlife-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Deer, turkey, black bear and mountain lion – they are just a few of the creatures roaming these woods and…
A Unique Look at the Outdoors
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/03/08Mar17-Pulaski-County-Wildlife-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When you grow up with something all of your life, you may not realize exactly how special it is. That…
A Japanese Teenager’s Journey to the US
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/02/01Mar18-Barbara-Law-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)As a Japanese teenager, Barbara was taught to defend herself from American soldiers arriving in her country. She ended up…
