Category: Missouri
More Than Peanut Butter
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/25Aug23-George-Washington-Carver-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may know him for just one thing…peanut butter…but in a moment you’ll see just how much this man accomplished. …
One of the Most Famous Agricultural Scientists
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/24Aug23-George-Washington-Carver-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He is one of the most famous agricultural scientists…a man who was born a slave and struggled to find a…
A Place That’s a Little Peculiar
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/04Aug23-Peculiar-Missouri.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Not all of us can live in a normal place. While most of the nation lives in cities that aren’t…
Hitchhiking Your Way To College
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/22Jun23-Raymond-Hagan-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It can be difficult to earn the money needed to get a college education. Raymond Hagan graduated high school in…
The Struggle Just to Get to School
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/21Jun23-Raymond-Hagan-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we take things like a high school education for granted. If you want a diploma, you usually have access…
Hitchhiking to Meet the Civil War Drummer Boy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/25May23-Milt-Torati-Veteran-Stories-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)I will confess, there are some interviews for this show that sent me driving hundreds of miles just to meet…
Heading to Vietnam
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…
Helping Veterans Tell Their Story
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…
Cole Younger’s Second Life
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…
The Burnt District
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…
Renaming a Town
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…
Floodproofing at Finley Farms
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…
Transforming the Ozark Mill
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…
Bluff Dwellers Cavern
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…
The Most Trusted Man in America
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…
A Trusted 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…
The Battle of Island Mound
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…
Former Slaves and the Union Army
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…
In the Crosshairs of the Civil War
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…
The Man Who Helped Us Find Our Way
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…
