http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/12/26Dec23-Best-of-23-Als-Oasis.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s the best of 2023 with a The American Countryside! If you’ve driven across interstate 90 in South Dakota you…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/12/25Dec23-Noel-Missouri-Post-Office.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)At Christmas we may sing, “The First Noel.”  In the United States, this is the “Only Noel.”  Confused?  Join me…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/12/22Dec23-Twas-the-Night-Before-Christmas.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house…they’re words we know well…and words that launched Santa’s image about…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/12/21Dec23-Christmas-Acres-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Christmas is a busy season for Rob and his wife Joyce.  They usually have hundreds of people walking around their…

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…

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. …

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…