http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/24May23-Milt-Torati-Veteran-Stories-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes when a conflict erupts somewhere around the world, young men will volunteer for the war effort.  That was the…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/26May23-Milt-Torati-Veteran-Stories-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)I like to say that everyone has a story.  Today’s guest helps people tell their story.  In fact, he helps…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/03/04Apr23-Lees-Summit-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When you hear the name Cole Younger, you probably think of an outlaw holding up banks and living a life…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/03/03Apr23-Lees-Summit-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was known as the Burnt District – a place where residents were forced to leave because there was no…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/03/31Mar23-Lees-Summit-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes the naming of a town is quite a story in itself.  That’s the case for what became one of…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/03/30Mar23-Finley-Farms-Ozark-Mill-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When you’re building is in the path of a regularly flooding river you might consider moving locations.  This place did…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/03/29Mar23-Finley-Farms-Ozark-Mill-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There was a time when old mills dotted the landscape, grinding grain into feed and food.  One of the oldest…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/01/19Jan23-Bluff-Dwellers-Cavern.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Arthur Browning thought he was just going to check the traps on his farm one morning back in 1927.  What…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/05Jan23-Walter-Cronkite-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The most trusted man in America.  That’s quite a title and it was often used when referring to a broadcaster…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/04Jan23-Walter-Cronkite-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We live in a time when some folks love to throw around the term, “fake news.”  Perhaps it’s warranted in…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/10/26Oct22-Island-Mound-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may have never heard of the Battle of Island Mound.  However, what occurred there in the fall of 1862…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/10/25Oct22-Island-Mound-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Where did the first former slaves take up arms and fight with the Union army?  You may be surprised to…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/10/24Oct22-Island-Mound-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the years leading up to the Civil War, counties adjacent to the Missouri-Kansas border saw bloodshed as pro and…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/09/30Sep22-Louisiana-Missouri-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)So I’ll share a little story about this show.  I’ve been doing it 26 years and I travel to all…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/09/29Sep22-Louisiana-Missouri-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some towns take the name of a state.  That is the case of Louisiana, Missouri.  It is an early Mississippi…

Spies are supposed to work in secret.  After all, it’s usually automatic death or imprisonment if you’re caught.  But that was not the case for…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/09/27Sep22-Louisiana-Missouri-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We’ve all heard of the Titanic, and many of us know the name Carpathia, a nearby ship that helped rescue…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/09/13Sep22-Nathan-Boone-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Before there was a U.S. cavalry, this man was noted to be the top mounted military man in the nation. …

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/09/12Sep22-Nathan-Boone-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most of us remember the frontiersman and explorer, Daniel Boone from our history books.  However, we may not be familiar…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/08/17Aug22-Forest-City-Missouri-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This is a story about people in small towns who are determined to make good things happen.  They may have…