Category: Missouri
Refuge KC
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/10Feb17-Refuge-KC-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Our travels intentionally try to steer clear of controversy and today’s topic is one we had planned for several months. …
Rich’s Diverse Neighbors
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/09Feb17-Refuge-KC-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Just a block down the street from Rich’s office is a grocery store catering to the needs of folks from…
A Ministry for Newcomers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/08Feb17-Refuge-KC-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Richard Casebolt is the Founder and president of something called Refgue KC. It’s a ministry both in word and deed,…
The Man Who Was President For a Day
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/07Feb17-David-Rice-Atchison-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)President Trump was recently sworn in as this nation’s 45th president. Or was he? That question is not a debate…
David Rice Atchison
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/06Feb17-David-Rice-Atchison-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)His name is David Rice Atchison. If you know the name, you probably know his unique and sometimes debated place…
Honoring the Prince of Peace with Peace
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/16Dec16-World-War-I-Christmas-Truce-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)For parts of five years, opposing soldiers dug into trenches all across Europe. World War I would claim the lives…
Christmas in World War I
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/15Dec16-World-War-I-Christmas-Truce-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Christmas is not only a time for remembering the birth of Jesus, but it’s also a time when many of…
Fighting in the Trenches
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/14Dec16-World-War-I-Christmas-Truce-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)1914 marked the beginning of a war unlike anything the world had ever seen. Soon thousands of troops had amassed…
Honoring Those Who Saved A Small Town
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/01Dec16-Blue-Owl-Bakery-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Mary simply wanted to honor those who had helped save the homes and businesses in the small town of Kimmswick. …
A 50 Foot Levee and a Pie
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/30Nov16-Blue-Owl-Bakery-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)You often don’t think about making a dessert that resembled a 50 foot high flood levee. That’s what this bakery…
30,000 Cookies By Christmas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/29Nov16-Blue-Owl-Bakery-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It all began when Mary Hostetter had to bake 30,000 cookies for Christmas. When she survived that challenge, she figured…
A Dessert Business That Began At Home
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/28Nov16-Blue-Owl-Bakery-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Some of the nation’s most successful businesses began in someone’s home. That’s the case for Mary, who turned her need…
Folds of Honor
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/17Nov16-Iran-Hostage-Rocky-Sickmann-7.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When someone in our military dies in the line of duty, we often memorialize them and their service, and rightly…
Answered Prayers in Tehran
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/16Nov16-Iran-Hostage-Rocky-Sickmann-6.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the middle of his most try time, Rocky Sickmann wondered if God was still there – if God would…
January 20, 1981
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/15Nov16-Iran-Hostage-Rocky-Sickmann-5.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)January 20th, 1981 was inauguration day in the U.S. It was also the day a 444 day hostage crisis ended…
Trigger on the War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/14Nov16-Iran-Hostage-Rocky-Sickmann-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)For those of use old enough to remember the events of 1979 and 1980, we may recall the plight of…
The Attack on the Embassy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/11Nov16-Iran-Hostage-Rocky-Sickmann-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Rocky Sickmann was in a position to change the course of U.S. history. If he had pulled the trigger on…
Guarding the Embassy in Tehran
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/10Nov16-Iran-Hostage-Rocky-Sickmann-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In 1979 Rocky Sickmann received his first assignment at a Marine Security Guard. He knew it could be a challenge,…
Joining the Marines
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/09Nov16-Iran-Hostage-Rocky-Sickmann-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Rocky Sickmann grew up in a rural area not far from St. Louis. He had never ventured too far from…
The Man Who Buys Museums
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/21Oct16-Museums-in-a-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Did you ever imagine you might turn a collection into your own museum? This man has museums within museums. In…
