Category: Missouri
Cape Girardeau: Discovery Playhouse
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Cape-Girardeau-Discovery-Playhouse.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:13 — 1.5MB)We’ve all been to museums, but have you ever been to one were you needed to put on a boot…
Cape Girardeau: Riverfront Murals
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Cape-Girardeau-Murals.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 1.4MB)Michelangelo had a very large canvass when he began work on the Sistine chapel. Make a trip to this river…
Cape Girardeau: Lazy L Safari Park
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Cape-Girardeau-Lazy-L-Safari-Park.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)When you pull in the drive at the Lance farm, you might expect to see cattle or horses. But a…
Cape Girardeau: Civil War History
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Cape-Girardeau-Civil-War.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 1.4MB)Civil War engineers were simply running out of names, but that doesn’t mean the forts here were not important. It’s…
Cape Girardeau: Bollinger Mill
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Cape-Girardeau-Bollinger-Mill.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)All this week, we’ll be in Cape Girardeau, Missouri–the place where the river turns a thousand tales. We begin with…
The Battle of Boonville
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Battle-of-Boonville.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)As you may know, we do all of our stories from the actual location where they occur. While we did…
Your Own Railroad
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Moberly-Missouri-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Ever dream of owing your own railroad? Well, now you have the next best thing–you can rent a railroad for…
The Magic City
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Moberly-Missouri-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Today we welcome our listeners on 1230 KWIX in Moberly, MO. To visit the radio station there, you’ll need to…
King City, Missouri’s BIG Pump
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/King-City-Missouri-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)In over 15 years of traveling the countryside, we have yet to feature an attraction from my hometown, the place…
Settling King City, Missouri
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/King-City-Missouri-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)New York City as the Empire State building, Seattle the Space Needle and for many years, King City, Missouri had…
Living Past 100 Years Old
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/Helen-Netherton-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Helen Netherton may still be able to purchase long term care insurance, but at the age of 110, she’s still…
Helen Netherton
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/Helen-Netherton-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Today we make history on our broadcasts. Out story is with the oldest person we have ever interviewed for the…
From Japan to the United States
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/Barbara-Law-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)As a Japanese teenager, Barbara was taught to defend herself from American soldiers arriving in her country. She ended up…
World War II From the Other Side of the Globe
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/Barbara-Law-11.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Probably all of us have heard stories about World War II. Perhaps we have friends or relatives who have shared…
Graham Cave
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/Graham-Cave.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)One of the first men to farm this plot of land used the nearby rocky overhang to shelter his herd…
Crowley’s Ridge
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/03/Benjamin-Crowley-Ridge-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Today we say hello to our listeners on KOTC in Kennett, MO. Is it really true the Mississippi River once…
Benjamin Crowley
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/03/Benjamin-Crowley-Ridge-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Lots of rivers, towns and mountains are named after people who settled in a specific area. This man never imagined…
Keeping the Old
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/03/Munger-Moss-Hotel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)The cliché says, out with the old, in with the new. If Ramona had followed that advice, she might have…
The Munger Moss
It’s called the Munger Moss. What is it? People have been asking that since the days of World War II…..
Towosahgy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/03/Towosahgy.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Many Midwestern cities can trace their beginnings for over 150 years or more. This one can go back 1000 years…..