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The Menger Hotel
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/11Mar14-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…
A Bath With Every Room
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/10Mar14-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…
Streets Wide Enough for Ox Cart U-Turns
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/07Mar14-Fredericksburg-Texas.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Today cities don’t need to be laid out so that ox carts can make U-turns. However, that was the plan…
France’s Gift of the 40 and 8
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/06Mar14-40-and-8-Boxcar-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Thousands of boxcars crisscross the country each day with a variety of cargo. But these boxcars were truly special, because…
The 40 and 8
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/05Mar14-40-and-8-Boxcar-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The term 40 & 8 doesn’t mean much to most Americans–unless you happened to serve in France during one of…
The Plane Crash Near Cottonwood Falls
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/04Mar14-Knute-Rockne-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)March 31, 1931 is a date still well remembered by those living around Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. Although eye witnesses have…
The Fame of Knute Rockne
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/03Mar14-Knute-Rockne-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Knute Rockne coached Notre Dame to four national championships and a record of 105 wins, against only 12 losses and…
Council Grove
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/28Feb14-Council-Grove-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…
An Important Tree in the Mail System
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/27Feb14-Council-Grove-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…
A Small Grove of Trees
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/26Feb14-Council-Grove-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…
The Seattle Underground
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/25Feb14-Seattle-Underground.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most of the time people would consider a raging fire sweeping through the heart of downtown to be a very…
A Couple From Kansas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/24Feb14-Obamas-Grandparents.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Dunhams were just another pair of Kansas high school graduates. They stayed in touch with classmates and tried to…
President’s Week: James Monroe
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/21Feb14-Prez-Week-James-Monroe.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Thomas Jefferson’s home is one of the best known and most visited in the United States. However, just drive down…
President’s Week: The Most Famous First Lady
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/20Feb14-Prez-Week-Dolly-Madison.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He was one of our most important presidents…yet the first lady may just be better known than her husband. The…
President’s Week: Thomas Brand
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/19Feb14-Prez-Week-Thomas-Jefferson.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Thomas Jefferson is known to have composed much of the Declaration of Independence…but he wasn’t happy with the final product. …
President’s Week: Between Washington & Jefferson
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/18Feb14-Prez-Week-John-Adams.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)His presidency was sandwiched between presidential greats George Washington and Thomas Jefferson…and unfortunately, much of his work in helping form…
President’s Week: Washington’s Birthplace
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/17Feb14-Prez-Week-George-Washington-Birthplace.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)George Washington’s birth date was always clear…February 22, 1732. The location of his birth though was difficult to pinpoint. It’s…
A Valentine’s Wedding Record
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/14Feb14-Las-Vegas-Wedding-Chapel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)My grandparents were married on Valentine’s Day and they celebrated 76 wedding anniversaries. But today, we honor a Valentine’s wedding…
More Weddings Than Anywhere in the Nation
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/13Feb14-Las-Vegas-Wedding-Chapel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This county performs more weddings than any other in the nation. You probably have a good idea where that county…
The Little House on the Prairie
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/12Feb14-Laura-Ingalls-Wilder-DeSmet-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Laura Ingalls Wilder lived in several Midwestern states during her lifetime. She was well into her 60s before her first…
