http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/05Feb13-Sam-Rayburn-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)In Bonham, Texas you can find the boyhood home of Sam Rayburn.  The small town is also host to the…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/04Feb13-Four-Women-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Today we say hello to our listeners on 690 KGGF in Coffeyville, Kansas.  Listeners  there live in the vicinity of…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/01Feb13-Four-Women-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 1.4MB)We’ve all seen those small abandoned gas stations along minor and major highways alike.  They hearken to the days of…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/31Jan13-Two-Harbors-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)They are some of the largest boat docks you’ll ever see.  Not mere spots on a lake from which to…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/30Jan13-Two-Harbors-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)Today Duluth, Minnesota and Superior, Wisconsin are major shipping points on Lake Superior.  However, turn back the clock a century…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/29Jan13-Mine-Creek-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)It was a last ditch effort for the south to take Missouri and upend President Lincoln’s plans for reelection.  In…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/28Jan13-Mine-Creek-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)There had long been disturbances along Missouri’s border with Kansas in the years leading up to the Civil War.  However,…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/25Jan13-Scott-Hamilton-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)Thirteen Americans have won an Olympic gold medal in individual figure skating.  For Scott Hamilton, the his gold medal is…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/24Jan13-Scott-Hamilton-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)Many athletes have stories of overcoming failure in order to reach triumph.  For Scott Hamilton, the journey to a gold…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/23Jan13-Scott-Hamilton-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)Scott Hamilton was never supposed to accomplish much in sports, let alone win a gold medal.  In fact, the way…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/22Jan13-National-Road.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)It could be considered the nation’s first interstate highway…a route over a century ahead of it’s modern-day, multi-lane relatives.  But…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/21Jan13-National-Cathedral.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Although the founding fathers chose not to have a state religion in the country, they still chose to have a…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/18Jan13-Juggler-Greg-Frisbee.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Lot of people juggle. Some people can juggle clubs. Others can juggle knives. A few even juggle torches. Greg Frisbee…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/17Jan13-Hell-Cats-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)Many military museums tell the story of an entire war, or perhaps the history of a fort or military outpost….

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/16Jan13-Hell-Cats-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)They were often known as the Hell Cats.  Others knew them by the name, “Suicide Squad” for their hard fought…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/15Jan13-Salt-Pepper-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We sometimes bill our program as a slice of Americana, and today’s broadcast certainly fills that theme. We visit with…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/14Jan13-Route-66-Angel-Delgadio-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)According to Angel Delgadio, I’m about the 600th person to interview him.  I feel fortunate to get to talk to…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/11Jan13-Route-66-Angel-Delgadio-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Angel Delgadio has lived over 85 years on route 66 in Arizona.  He remembers the Depression years when people headed…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/10Jan13-Wal-Mart-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)He was one of the wealthiest men in America.  Yet almost everyone that ever worked with him would tell you…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/09Jan13-Wal-Mart-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It you walked into a business that had just remodeled its space and noticed the floor tiles did not match,…