Category: Missouri
A Battlefield “Know-It-All”
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Fighting the Greatest Battles
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/28Jul16-Civil-War-Reenactment-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today’s guest has not spent time fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan, yet he has fought some of the most important…
Missouri Star Quilt
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/13May16-Missouri-Star-Quilt-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a nice sunny day in Hamilton, Missouri, with a population of not even 2000, but unlike a lot of…
Small Town – Big Quilt
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/12May16-Missouri-Star-Quilt-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What kind of businesses help bring small towns to life? Today’s example may surprise you, but it has folks from…
Retrieving a Boot – In Front of 80,000
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/11May16-Warpaint-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine you could run so fast that you lost your boots! That’s what happened here. This is the lady who…
Helping Train a Well-known Horse
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/10May16-Warpaint-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are many teenagers that like to ride horses, but few get the chance to train a horse that’s seen…
The Walter Kronkite Memorial
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/02/25Apr16-Walter-Kronkite-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)How fast do you speak? You’ve probably never thought about it, but this man knew the exact pace he needed…
The Most Trusted Man in America
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/02/22Apr16-Walter-Kronkite-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He was known as “the most trusted man in America.” That’s a big title to live up to, but one…
A Heroic War Correspondent
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/02/21Apr16-Walter-Kronkite-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)This man made a name for himself as a war correspondent. In fact, he even flew into the front lines…
HardWork U
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/21Jan16-College-of-the-Ozarks-Milam-Smith-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)Today we hear a lot about the rising costs of higher education. While that may be true, students here have…
Tuition is “Free” But Hardwork is Required
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/22Jan16-College-of-the-Ozarks-Milam-Smith-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)I recently visited a college campus unique from many others. It’s a place where students work on campus to pay…
The Ralph Foster Museum
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A Museum with a Wealth of Exhibits
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/11Jan16-Ralph-Foster-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)At one point, this museum might have begun to look a bit like your grandmother’s attic – full of just…
The Story of Basketball’s “Glory Road”
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/07Jan16-Jerry-Armstrong-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The movie “Glory Road” shares the story of five black basketball players from Texas Western who beat an all-white Kentucky…
Prejudices on the Basketball Court
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/06Jan16-Jerry-Armstrong-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Jerry Armstrong was a farm kid from Eagleville, Missouri. He excelled at basketball and took a chance to play Division…
Coach Don Haskins and Herman Karr
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Basketball Hall of Famer Jerry Armstrong
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/04Jan16-Jerry-Armstrong-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When a small town school produces a big-time athlete, the entire community might rally around them. Jerry was one such…
A Second Chance At Life
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/11Dec15-Tom-Brand-5.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)To say Tom Brand got a second chance at life is to infer that he hadn’t been making the most…
The Power of Prayer
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/10Dec15-Tom-Brand-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Do you believe in the power of prayer? If not, today’s feature may just make you a believer. Tom Brand…
Surviving the Odds
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/09Dec15-Tom-Brand-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Statistics show that if you need CPR, even in a hospital setting, your chances of survival are under ten percent. …