Category: Podcast
The Kansas Cosmosphere
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/08/Kansas-Cosmosphere-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Today we’re back in Hutchinson, KS and say hello to our listeners on KWBW. I can attest to what folks…
A Space Museum in the Midwest
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/08/Kansas-Cosmosphere-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.9MB)Where can you find the largest collection of Soviet space artifacts on public display in the world? The answer is…
New Hampshire Primaries at the Town and Country Motor Inn
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/08/Town-and-Country-Inn-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 953.7KB)Many hotels host important guests…but Scott Labnon’s family owned property is guaranteed to see plenty of secret service and presidential…
The Town and Country Motor Inn
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/08/Town-and-Country-Inn-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 952.2KB)The Northeastern United State is home to many long time, family owned resort motels. One of the most famous properties…
Cleveland, Ohio
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/08/Cleveland-2009.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)It was once a place that served as the punch line to jokes. Some of those jokes are still around,…
Hatch Chili
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/08/Hatch-Chili-2009.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.4MB) If you play with fire you’re liable to get burned. But on Jim Lidle’s farm, fire is what they…
German Prisoners of War Going to Church
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/07/John-Fenzell-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:06 — 1.9MB)Sunday was a day of worship in Hampshire, Illinois…both for the American residents and their friends, the German POWs. The…
Learning English from a German POW
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/07/John-Fenzell-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)When John Fenzell was struggling with English at his Illinois elementary school, he got a tutor…a tutor that just happened…
Delivering the Paper to a German POW Camp
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/07/John-Fenzell-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)John Fenzell, like many young boys, delivered papers growing up. However, some of his customers happened to be German POWs…
Midwestern POW Camps in World War II
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/07/John-Fenzell-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 1.9MB)During World War II, young working men left the Midwest to fight for their country. In some cases, it was…
The Fitzgerald and Kennedy Families
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/28Jul09-JFK-Birthplace-2.mp3Podcast: Download (1.9MB)There was no doubt in Fitz’s mind…Joe was not the man for his daughter. The story of what happened when they married anyway…
JFK’s Birthplace
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/07/27Jul09-JFK-Birthplace-11.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 1.9MB)Beal Street looks to be just another street in suburban Boston, but one house here is special…Our features this week…
A History of Voting
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/07/24Jul09-Voting-20091.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 954.7KB)This country has had close elections and we can certainly find examples of disputed elections around the world. So, today,…
Seeking Refuge from Chicago’s Fire
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/07/23Jul09-Chicago-Fire-31.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Bells rang the warning. Prison cells were opened to allow inmates to save their own lives ahead of the coming…
The Great Chicago Fire
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/07/22Jul09-Chicago-Fire-21.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.9MB)The fire was moving quickly. Some thought the river would offer protection, but soon it was clear that only Lake…
A Cow and a Fire
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/07/Chicago-Fire-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 953.1KB)No doubt, she is one of the most famous cows in history…but is she really to blame for the problems…
Eisenhower’s Birthplace
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/07/Eisenhower-Birthplace.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)This president was born in Texas but always claimed Kansas as his home. The story as well as all of…
Dairy Farmers Working Together (Part 2)
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Dairy-Farmers-Working-Together-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)We occasionally bring you a feature here on the American Countryside we call food fight…A story about the challenge for…
Dairy Farmers Working Together (Part 1)
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Dairy-Farmers-Working-Together-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)We continue our trip in Vermont this week…looking at the importance of dairy farms in our nation. We travel extensively…
More Cow Power
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Cow-Power-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 958.2KB)It’s called Cow Power…a program that producers renewable energy from diary cattle. It’s such a good idea in fact, Vermont…
