Category: Podcast
Big Tracks
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Dinosaur-Valley-Park.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 1.4MB)The animal tracks are three foot in width–and they are real–not made by an imaginary bigfoot, but plain to see…
The San Marcos Hotel and Resort
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/San-Marcos-Resort.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Phoenix, Arizona has plenty of golf resorts that attract thousands of visitors, but ask someone who established the first course…
The Karate Kid
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/FFA-Karate-Kid-Keillie-Summey1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)It’s not often you get to visit with someone who’s won multiple national titles in anything. Now add in the…
Rock Creek Station
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Rock-Creek-Station-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)Mention the name Wild Bill Hickok and many people have images of a western lawman not afraid to enter a…
Ruts That Are Never Filled
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Rock-Creek-Station-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)If someone cuts ruts down a muddy dirt trail, someone else will probably need to come and fill them in…
The Flying Priest of Bolivia
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Flying-Priest-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Buying a plane seemed like a good idea. Then again, Mike Gould didn’t know how to fly. It turned out…
To Bolivia and Back
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/22Jul11-Flying-Priest-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)It’s been nearly sixty years since Mike Gould was assigned to work in Bolivia. He’s spent almost all of those…
A New City Overnight
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Oklahoma-City-Land-Run-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)If a city grows quickly, we might say it sprang up overnight. This state capital literally sprang into existence in…
Land on the Run
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Oklahoma-City-Land-Run-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)If you found a great deal on a house or a piece of land, we might say that we ran…
Stockyards City, Oklahoma
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Oklahoma-City-Cattlemens-Steakhouse-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)You might go to a fancy clothing store to get measured for a suit. But where do you go to…
The Cattlemen’s Cafe
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Oklahoma-City-Cattlemens-Steakhouse-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Why are nurses on the night shift eating breakfast in the Oklahoma City Stockyards? Here’s a place popular for breakfast…
The Banjo Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Banjo-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)When I was in fifth grade I wanted to play the trumpet. My parents scratched together $300 for a used…
Duelling Banjos
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Banjo-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)You’ve heard of dueling banjos–now multiply it times several hundred. It’s a unique convention of sights and sounds that arrives…
Jowler Creek Winery
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Jowler-Creek-Winery-21.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Most crops in the Midwest are planted in the spring and harvested in the fall. The farmer’s investment is mostly…
Growing Grapes
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Jowler-Creek-Winery-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)What led this beef and row crop farmer to begin growing grapes? The answer is a good one, but it…
A Reward for Remaining Loyal to the King
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Philipse-Manor-31.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)When America won her independence, there were thousands of men and women who remained loyal to England during the war….
Signing the Declaration of Dependence
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Philipse-Manor-21.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)Fifty-six men signed the Declaration of Independence in July of 1776, but not everyone was pleased with the patriotic document….
A Woman Ship’s Captain of the 1600’s
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Philipse-Manor-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)It’s rare to find a young married lady commanding a ship, crisscrossing the Atlantic multiple times each year. Now imagine…
The Liberty Bell
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Liberty-Bell-2011.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)July 4th, 1776…Indpendence Day in the United States. One of the symbols of our freedom is the Liberty Bell. But…
Springfield, Illinois: New Salem Village
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Springfield-Illinois-New-Salem1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)Where was Abraham Lincoln living when he won his first political office? You may have forgotten that it was this…