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Letters from a Farmer
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/03/22Mar24-John-Dickinson-Plantation-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They are known as “Letters from a Farmer.” Perhaps you have not heard of them, but if you lived in…
Buena Vista College
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/03/21Mar24-Buena-Vista-College.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the 1800s, many college and universities sprang up across the Midwest. Some were short lived, yet others managed to…
The Name Behind Storm Lake, Iowa
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/03/20Mar24-Storm-Lake-Iowa-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)With a name like “Storm Lake” you would suppose there has to be a major storm somewhere its history. That…
Tracing the Origins of Storm Lake
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/03/19Mar24-Storm-Lake-Iowa-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This lake was a draw for people as far back as there were people living in the area. But the…
Winning a National Championship in a Big Way
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/03/18Mar24-Babe-Didrikson-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)While individuals compete in track and field events, there is often a team component to the standings, with points awarded…
An Olympic Qualifier on Another Level
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/03/15Mar24-Babe-Didrikson-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s difficult to know exactly how many medals this athlete might have won at the Olympics. She qualified for several…
Wide Enough Streets for U-Turns
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/03/14Mar24-Fredericksburg-Texas.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today cities don’t need to be laid out so that ox carts can make U-turns. However, that was the plan…
Riding A Horse Into the Hotel Lobby
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/03/13Mar24-Menger-Hotel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine a well-known general riding his horse into the lobby of a hotel…and it was met with applause. Another military…
Racing to Get a Hotel Room
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/03/12Mar24-Menger-Hotel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today just about every hotel room in America has a private bathroom included. Turn back the clock over a century…
Home of the Ice Cream Sundae
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/03/11Mar24-Two-Rivers-Ice-Cream-Sundae-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many of us enjoy an ice cream sundae. We have our favorite flavors and toppings. But were did that phrase,…
The Sistine Chapel of Twin Rivers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/08Mar24-Two-Rivers-Ice-Cream-Sundae-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some have referred to this place as the Sistine Chapel of this town. No the ceilings aren’t as high, nor…
An Art and Space Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/07Mar24-Sputnik-Art-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Perhaps you don’t think you’d care to go to an art museum. But what about a museum that had a…
Kicking It to the Side of the Road
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/06Mar24-Sputnik-Art-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was the middle of the night and two police officers had happened upon a relatively small piece of smoldering…
The Delivery Tree
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/05Mar24-Council-Grove-Kansas-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today if you need parts for your car or truck, you might just head to an auto repair store. Turn…
Messages Delivered in Weeks
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/04Mar24-Council-Grove-Kansas-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Before express mail or overnight delivery, messages traveled at a speed measured not in hours, but in weeks. For those…
Where Two Nations Could Met
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/01Mar24-Council-Grove-Kansas-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The hardwood trees along the Neosho River had been growing here for years. In fact, many of those old trees…
A Cedar Rapids Museum of the Past and Present
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/29Feb24-Czech-and-Slovak-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In Cedar Rapids, Iowa you’ll find an impressive museum that tells the past and present of a group of people…
Speaking the Same Language
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/28Feb24-Czech-and-Slovak-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the 1800s many immigrant groups began to move from Europe to the United States. Specific groups of people would…
The Prescott Frontier Days Rodeo
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/27Feb24-Prescott-Frontier-Days-Rodeo-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you come to watch this rodeo, you’ll most likely be sitting in seats that were first used in 1913. …
The First Rodeo
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/26Feb24-Prescott-Frontier-Days-Rodeo-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Where was the first rodeo held? You’ll find some debate on the actual beginning point of the sport with several…
