Category: Ohio
Hanging on to the “Bitter End”
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/11Oct16-Christopher-Columbus-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)If you told Columbus’ crew to hang on to the “bitter end,” they probably would not take you up on…
Columbus Day, Today
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/10Oct16-Christopher-Columbus-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We’ve all learned that Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 14 hundred and 92. We know he had three ships,…
Five Places to Find Columbus in the New World Today
In Fourteen Hundred and Ninety Two, Columbus sailed the Ocean Blue. And ever since, people have been building monuments to him. In fact, one Internet…
More Important than Kitty Hawk?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/10Jul13-Wright-Brothers-Dayton.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)The Wright Brothers first took flight in 1903 and that plane is in the Smithsonian. But the brothers said there…
The Packard Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/24Oct11-Packard-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.8MB)Name your favorite brand of car and you can probably find a dealership within a reasonable distance of your home….
The Packard
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/Packard-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.8MB)It was the luxury car of the first half of the 20th century. Today, the company is gone, but the…
Home of the Pop-tab, Cash Register and More
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/Dayton-Inventions.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)If you are over 30 years old, you probably remember aluminum cans that had the old pull off tabs. Today,…
The Other Wright Brothers Plane
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/Dayton-Wright-Brothers.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)The Wright Brothers first took flight in 1903 and that plane is in the Smithsonian. But the brothers said there…
More Than An Ice Cream Cone
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/Youngs-Dairy-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)When is an ice cream cone, more than just ice cream in a cone? We solve that riddle…..
A Family Dairy for Over 150 Years
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/Youngs-Dairy-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)This week we’ll be in the Dayton, Ohio area as we say hello to our listeners on the classic country…
Setting Sail for the Americas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/Christopher-Columbus-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)If you told Columbus’ crew to hang on to the “bitter end,” they probably would not take you up on…
Columbus’ Favorite Ship
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/Christopher-Columbus-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)We’ve all learned that Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 14 hundred and 92. We know he had three ships,…
Robert Rothschild Farm
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/09/Robert-Rothschild.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)It all began with a west coast couple that wanted to grow some raspberries in the Midwest. It became one…
Feeding People in a Different Way
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/09/Ohio-Food-Bank-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)If you were dropped inside this building and had no idea what it was, it might take you awhile to…
An Old Mattress Warehouse
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/09/Ohio-Food-Bank-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)What can you do with an old mattress warehouse? Use it to feed thousands of people in twenty counties. That’s…
Grave Robbers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/09/William-Henry-Harrison-Tomb.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)We may have heard tales of grave robbers, but perhaps you never knew that one such case took place in…
Shopping at Lehman’s
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Kidron-Ohio-Lehman-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)If you lived without electricity–either by choice or simply because of the location you lived–where would you go to find…
Niche Marketing at Its Best
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Kidron-Ohio-Lehman-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)If you’re going to do well in business you have to stay up with the times. But for Jay Lehman,…
Perfecting an Airplane
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Dayton-Ohio-Wright-Brothers-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)The Wright Brothers made their first flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. However, it was the farmers around Dayton, Ohio…
The Home of the Wright Brothers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Dayton-Ohio-Wright-Brothers-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Although Kitty Hawk, North Carolina received most of the attention regarding the Wright Brothers first flight, it was this Ohio…
