Category: New Mexico
Hatch Chile
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/06/13Jun24-Hatch-Chile.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you play with fire your liable to get burned. But on Jim Lytle’s farm, fire is what they grow. …
The Museum with the Mine Under Its Floor
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/04/30Apr24-Uranium-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a museum with its mine underneath the floor – an unusual, but effective idea on promoting the industry that…
A Different Mineral
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/04/29Apr24-Uranium-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many mining booms begin quite by chance. That was the case about 100 miles west of Albuquerque. However, the mineral…
The El Rancho Hotel
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/04/18Apr24-El-Rancho-Hotel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The movie stars are gone, but the legends still abound, including the story one celebrity who rode his horse into…
A Hotel for Movie Stars
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/04/17Apr24-El-Rancho-Hotel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was built to house movie stars. A hotel in western New Mexico where celebrities could catch some rest and…
Civil War in New Mexico?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/08/20Aug21-Glorietta-Pass.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When you think of the American Civil War you probably don’t think of battlefields in states such as New Mexico?? …
T or C
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/30Jun20-Truth-or-Consequences.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The name of this city is so long, most road signs abbreviate it. In fact, when you’re in state, it…
Transforming a Dream Into Inspiration
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/05/25May20-Angel-Fire-Vietnam-Memorial.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Westfalls had dreams of a ranch resort where they could retire. Then tragedy struck and the plans for the…
A Weather Balloon That Either Was or Wasn’t
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/10/16Oct19-Roswell-Flying-Saucer-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s a story over seventy years old, yet a story still talked about today. In fact, it even had its…
A Hoax…Or Reality?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/10/15Oct19-Roswell-Flying-Saucer-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Today you’ll hear from Glenn Dennis a man who’s story you may believe or perhaps you’ll think it’s all a…
An Unusual News Release
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/10/14Oct19-Roswell-Flying-Saucer-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The military issues press releases all of the time, but this one was certainly unique and still stirs controversy today. …
Fire In the Form of Vegetables
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/08/03Oct17-Hatch-Chile.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you play with fire your liable to get burned. But on Jim Lidle’s farm, fire is what they grow. …
Shipping Bricks
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/18Nov16-Vernal-Bank-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you need to ship 40 tons of bricks, you of course use…parcel post. That’s what one man did to…
The Very Large Array
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/08Nov16-VLA-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In the early 1980s this flat, desolate rangeland saw a major change. Now it is not only home to herds…
Seeing Light Years Away
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/07Nov16-VLA-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Being able to see far ahead helps one plan for the future. Here on the barren plains of New Mexico…
Angel Fire
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/03Feb16-Angel-Fire-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)My in-laws had been telling me about a place called Angel Fire for many years. They make an annual trip…
Doc Westfall’s War Memorial
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/02Feb16-Angel-Fire-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:04 — 2.1MB)When Doc Westfall lost a son to the Vietnam War, the event changed his plans for the future. His new…
Rancher Turned Veterans Memorial
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/01Feb16-Angel-Fire-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Westfalls had dreams of a ranch resort where they could retire. Then tragedy struck and the plans for the…
The Capulin Volcano
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/08Sep15-Capulin-Volcano-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many people traveling in northeast New Mexico pass this site and fail to realize the historical significance and the amazing…
Inside the Volcano Crater
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/07Sep15-Capulin-Volcano-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Which state has the most volcanoes? The answer will most likely surprise you. We’ll head to the crater…