Category: Wisconsin
70 Truckloads of Butter a Day
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Grassland-Dairy-Butter-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)We all know Santa’s elves must work year round to meet toy demand at year’s end, but who knew this…
Butter from Wisconsin
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Grassland-Dairy-Butter-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Folks in the heart of dairy country know that this fourth generation business touches the diets of almost every American…..
The Portage at Portage
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Fox-River-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)It is still revered as one of the most difficult canal building projects ever undertaken–a project to tame a rapidly…
Mistaking Wisconsin for China
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/12Nov10-Fox-River-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Wisconsin and China are nearly a half a world from each other on the globe. So, it?s hard to imagine…
A Wisconsin Dairy Farmer and an Alaska Gold Mine
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/11/El-Dorado-Gold-Mine-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.9MB)When Dexter Clark decided that the life of a Wisconsin dairy farmer was not for him, he took up a…
A Circus Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/10/Circus-Museum-2009.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.8MB)It all began with Albert, Otto, Alfred, Charles, and John. Without their last names, those first names might not mean…