Category: Ohio
The Temperance Tavern
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/08/2026-0904-Temperance-Tavern.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most taverns are places were you can sit down and get a strong drink. That’s what makes this tavern quite…
Returning Home After a Professional Baseball Career
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/08/2026-0903-Cy-Young-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you were one of the most well-known players in major league history, perhaps it would be hard to come…
The Best Pitcher in Baseball
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/08/2026-0902-Cy-Young-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The best baseball pitcher in each league receives this award – an award named for arguably the best pitcher to…
Dents on the Family Barn
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/08/2026-0901-Cy-Young-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This well-known baseball pitcher got his name because of what his throws did to the family’s barn…
The Museum of Popcorn
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0512-Wyandotte-Popcorn-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many people like to get popcorn when the go to the movies. Initially though, theatres banned the snack because of…
A Museum for Something Popular
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0511-Wyandotte-Popcorn-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In Marion, Ohio you’ll find a museum that is the only one devoted to this in the world. That fact…
The Williams County, Ohio History Museum
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/02/2026-0309-Williams-County-Ohio-History-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There is a large painting hanging in the historical society museum in Montpelier, Ohio depicting the role three gentlemen had…
The Origins of Wind Chill
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/02/2026-0306-Wind-Chill.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The term is used countless times each winter yet most of us don’t know where it originated. It turns out…
A Lifetime of Intricate Work
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/02/2026-0217-Warther-Wood-Carving-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In Dover, Ohio you will find a collection of masterpieces. They are carved scenes, mostly tied to the railroad, that…
Starting With a Rusty Knife
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/02/2026-0216-Warther-Wood-Carving-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Ernest Warther was just a young boy in charge of keeping an eye on the cows. What he did while…
Guy Gruters’ Story
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/12/10Dec25-POW-Guy-Gruters-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Guy Gruters was held as a prisoner of war for over five years in Vietnam. Over fifty years after his…
A Prisoner of War for Over Five Years
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/12/09Dec25-POW-Guy-Gruters-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Guy Gruters was taken as a prisoner of war just before Christmas of 1967. It was the beginning of over…
400 Combat Missions in Vietnam
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/12/08Dec25-POW-Guy-Gruters-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Guy Gruters flew over 400 combat missions in the Vietnam War. Two of those missions resulted in him ejecting from…
Rescuing An Old Gem
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/11/26Nov25-Fort-Recovery-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the late 1800s, this town was in need of a place to hold large gatherings and what resulted was…
Fort Recovery
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/11/25Nov25-Fort-Recovery-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1791 the U.S. Army lost hundreds of soldiers in battle in present day west central Ohio. When a new…
Preserving Land for Settlement
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/11/24Nov25-Fort-Recovery-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)As this nation neared it’s twentieth birthday, President George Washington was intent on securing the land in present day Ohio…
A Reputation for Transportation
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/11/20Nov25-Bellfountain-Ohio.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This Ohio town has long been known for it’s tie to transportation. Name any mode of travel and they probably…
The First Concrete Street
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/11/19Nov25-Bellfountain-Concrete-Street.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It takes a lot of work to keep up roads and highways. It a moment I’ll take you to the…
President Grant’s Mobile Home
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/19Feb24-Grant-Boyhood-Home.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Presidential birthplaces are visited by many tourists each year. But no home may have quite the story as this small…
Avoiding Locust Trees and Other Obstacles
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/12Jul23-Wright-Brothers-Dayton-Ohio-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Wright Brothers made their first flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. However, it was the farmers around Dayton that…
