Category: Missouri
Jailhouse Rock
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/02/23Feb22-Stockton-Jailhouse-Rock-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Elvis once sang about the jailhouse rock. In fact, many of us know that tune decades after it was first…
God’s Call to Visit the Jail
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/02/22Feb22-Stockton-Jailhouse-Rock-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Randy Hayward says he’s always tried to follow what God wanted him to do with his life. But what happened…
What’s Under Stockton, Missouri?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/02/21Feb22-Stockton-Missouri-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There were many reason the first pioneers selected specific spots to begin town and cities. It’s easy to find the…
Defeating Shelby’s Raiders
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/02/18Feb22-Stockton-Missouri-Jailhouse.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we say hello to our listeners on KYOO in Bolivar, Missouri. Just up the road in Stockton, town residents…
Barges on the River
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/11/24Nov21-Hannibal-Riverboat-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the nation was founded, waterways were the interstate highways of the day. Today those rivers can still move a…
What is Mark Twain?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/11/23Nov21-Hannibal-Riverboat-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Who is Mark Twain? Perhaps the better question is “What is Mark Twain?” Knowing what mark twain is will help…
From Deckhand to Captain
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/11/22Nov21-Hannibal-Riverboat-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Steve Terry grew up along the Mississippi River but he perhaps never imagined he would spend most of his career…
Quite a Way to Hide Money
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/11/19Nov21-Waldo-Missouri-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When Union and Confederate sympathizers threatened to take this bankers money, he did something quite unique – he dressed as…
Where’s Waldo?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/11/18Nov21-Waldo-Missouri-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may remember the popular Where’s Waldo books that had kids searching for a man hidden in pictures. Today we…
The Priest Who Went to the Supreme Court
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/11/11Nov21-Father-John-Cummings-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Normally a priest’s words are to inspire the local congregation. In this case, the priest’s words sent him to jail…
An Oath He Would Not Take
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/11/10Nov21-Father-John-Cummings-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)For many folks it seemed to be a good idea. Have people take an oath of allegiance to the nation. …
Who Is the Author of the 13th Amendment?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/11/09Nov21-John-Brooks-Henderson-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)On a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River you’ll find a bust of a U.S. Senator who authored one of the…
John Brooks Henderson
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/11/08Nov21-John-Brooks-Henderson-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There’s a good chance you’ve not heard of Senator John Brooks Henderson. On the surface he seemed an unlikely man…
25 Years of Traveling the Countryside
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/06Oct21-American-Countryside-25th-Anniversary.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)On October 6th, 1996 I was away from home but called my mom early on a Saturday morning to put…
Creating a German Town
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/07/06Aug21-Herman-Missouri-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Why did one family move their piano making business from Philadelphia to a fledgling community in the Midwest? In may…
Advertising for Settlers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/07/05Aug21-Herman-Missouri-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we might look at a travel guide for insights on where to take a vacation. Those who looked at…
A Strange Log Cabin
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/07/23Jul21-St-Genevieve-Missouri-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We’ve all seen a log cabin. Such structures were the norm for many Americans early in the country’s history. But…
Missouri’s Oldest Town
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/07/22Jul21-St-Genevieve-Missouri-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When these French Catholics learned that the British Protestants had taken over, they weren’t pleased. It may be the reason…
The Soldier in the Field – Now in the Town
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/08Jun21-Soldier-in-the-Field-Monument-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Near the town square in Memphis, Missouri you’ll find a monument to a soldier who died in Word War I. …
Purnell Barnett’s Unique Marker
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/07Jun21-Soldier-in-the-Field-Monument-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)His name was Purnell Barnett. He died in World War I before he ever reached the battlefields of Europe. For…
