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Christmas Acres
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/12/20Dec23-Christmas-Acres-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A lot of people put up Christmas lights on and around their house each holiday season. That was the case…
One Historic Place
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/12/19Dec23-Miss-Lauras-Brothel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It may be one of the most unique businesses to ever be placed on the National Register of Historic Places. …
Laura’s Little Business in Ft. Smith
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/12/18Dec23-Miss-Lauras-Brothel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Laura Ziegler came to Ft. Smith, Arkansas from Vermont. She was only in this city for about a decade, then…
A State with Two Flags
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/12/15Dec23-Fort-Snelling-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The state of Minnesota has a state flag, a flag flown above many sites in the state. They also have…
A Successful Stand Against Pickett’s Charge
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/12/14Dec23-Fort-Snelling-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Battle of Gettysburg is often referred to as the turning point of the Civil War, and within the battle…
The First State to Volunteer for the Civil War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/12/13Dec23-Fort-Snelling-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When Ft. Sumter was fired upon in April of 1861, in signified the beginning of the U.S. Civil War. Interestingly,…
Where the Mississippi and Minnesota Meet
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/12/12Dec23-Fort-Snelling-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s the place where the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers meet – a place that has been important for centuries of…
Promoting Milk Before “Got Milk?”
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/12/11Dec23-Prohibition-Party-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Before there was a Got Milk slogan, some dairymen used an amendment to the constitution to help keep their product…
A Political Party That Survives Today
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/08Dec23-Prohibition-Party-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may have thought this political party died when this became legal again back in the 1930s. You’ll be intrigued…
Heisman Winner Bruce Smith
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/12/07Dec23-Heisman-Winner-Bruce-Smith-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)December 7th 1941. It was a day of travel for this standout college football player, but as the events of…
Celebrating Minnesota’s Only Heisman Winner
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/06Dec23-Heisman-Winner-Bruce-Smith-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we say hello to our listeners on KDHL in Faribault, MN. Listeners there know there is one athlete that…
The Moonshine Cafe
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/05Dec23-Moonshine-Cafe-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine serving hundreds of people out of a small store in very rural Illinois. That’s the setting that takes place…
A Little Bit of Moonshine
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/04Dec23-Moonshine-Cafe-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If I told you people were traveling hundreds of miles to this spot for moonshine, you’d probably think there was…
The Boyhood Home of Wyatt Earp
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/01Dec23-Pella-Iowa-Wyatt-Earp.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Mention the name Wyatt Earp and folks often quickly think of the shootout at the OK Corral. You certainly aren’t…
The Pella Skyline
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/30Nov23-Pella-Iowa-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some cities have skyscrapers that dominate the skyline. When you live in a small town, it could well be the…
Planting 300,000 Flowers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/29Nov23-Pella-Iowa-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some people plant flowers each Spring to spruce up the place they live or work. Now image you have 300,000…
Creating a New Home in a New Land
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/28Nov23-Pella-Iowa-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When about 800 folks wearing strange clothes begin crossing the nation, they are bound to get noticed. That was the…
The A.D. Makepeace Farm
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/27Nov23-AD-Makepeace-Cranberry-Farm-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s hard to imagine a farm growing a crop from vines that are over a century old. But that’s exactly…
Flooding the Fields
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/24Nov23-AD-Makepeace-Cranberry-Farm-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most farmers want to avoid a flood that drenches their crops. Here, it’s just part of the process to keep…
A Place Once Known for Mining Iron
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/23Nov23-AD-Makepeace-Cranberry-Farm-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s hard to image that a place once known for mining iron would become an area that later was recognized…
