Category: Missouri
A Drug Store Soda Fountain Reopens
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/15May15-Ava-Drug-Store-2015-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)When this drug store soda fountain reopened, they began charging 1950s prices. What’s unusual is they’re still using prices from…
Back from the Past
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/14May15-Ava-Drug-Store-2015-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Once upon a time, just about every town had at least one drug store soda fountain. Today we head to…
A Quick-Draw Shootout
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/06May15-Wild-Bill-Hickok-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)John Sellers says the key to winning an old-west shootout was not quickness, but accuracy. And when you take into…
Gambling Over a Pocketwatch
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/05May15-Wild-Bill-Hickok-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In a movie “western” you might see two gunslingers fire their pistols at each other in the town square. That’s…
Deadly Tensions
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/04May15-Wild-Bill-Hickok-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the Civil War ended, there were still many unsettled scores of course. Towns along the border with North and…
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/04/17Apr15-Nicholas-Beazley-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)People often come to the new community center in Marshall, Missouri for regional meetings on a variety of topics. But…
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/04/16Apr15-Nicholas-Beazley-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)In the 1920, this was the largest commercial pilots school in the world. So large, other nation’s such as Chine…
What Started As 75 Box Cars Led to This…
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/04/15Apr15-Nicholas-Beazley-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)When Russell Nicholas came home from World War I, he wanted to begin his own business. He ended up purchasing…
From Board Room to the Classroom
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/03/26Mar15-Bloch-Brothers-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.8MB) What happens when the CEO of a major corporation decides he wants to begin teaching middle school math? It’s…
H&R Block Career Change
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/03/25Mar15-Bloch-Brothers-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.8MB) Tom Bloch’s father and uncle founded H&R Block, a company that Tom eventually led as CEO. But there was…
H&R Block
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/03/24Mar15-Bloch-Brothers-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.8MB) There are some folks that think they can run your business better than you can. In this case, the…
The Bloch Brothers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/03/23Mar15-Bloch-Brothers-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.8MB) Very few people like to figure their taxes and even fewer like to pay them. But this pair of…
Tomahawk Throwing
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/02Mar15-Tomahawk-Maker-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Perhaps you’ve seen a circus side show or an old Western where people threw tomahawks for sport. It’s a competition…
Well Known For Craftsmanship
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/27Feb15-Tomahawk-Maker-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)This young man began his enterprise at the age of only ten…and now, just a few years out of high…
The Union Army’s Order Number 11
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/28Jan15-Bates-County-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In the summer of 1863 the Union Army issued Order Number 11, an edict that forced every resident living in…
Clearing Out the County
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/27Jan15-Bates-County-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:03 — 2.1MB)If two people are arguing, perhaps it’s best they both stop and take a rest from one another. That was…
Tensions on the Missouri – Kansas Border
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/26Jan15-Bates-County-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In the decade leading up to the Civil War, tensions rose along Kansas’ border with Missouri. Even if one tried…
A Place Called Penneytown
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/23Jan15-Penneytown-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Virginia Houston holds a unique distinction. She was the last child born in Penneytown. It’s a fact that holds much…
Establishing a City for Newly Freed Slaves
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/22Jan15-Penneytown-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)Establishing a new city can take plenty of planning. Now imagine trying to begin that new town when others are…
Jim the Wonder Dog
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/21Jan15-Jim-the-Wonder-Dog-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Any betting man or woman would love to know the winners before placing a wager. The people of Marshall, Missouri…
