Recent Posts
The Captain Who Needed Some Water
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/01Aug23-Daphne-Alabama-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Did you ever visit a location and say to yourself, “I wish I could live here.” That’s in a since…
Surviving a Blizzard on Christmas Candy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/31Jul23-Laura-Ingalls-Wilder-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are tales of locusts that consumer the crops and a blizzard so bad that a man had to hunker…
The Dugout on Plumb Creek
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/28Jul23-Laura-Ingalls-Wilder-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Early pioneers sometimes did not have the means or resources to build a house on the prairie. They instead created…
The Wilder Pageant
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/27Jul23-Wilder-Pageant.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This outdoor theatre has been taking place since the 1970s. It’s hosted in a very small town and is all…
The Fastest Blackbird
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/26Jul23-SAC-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s the largest and fastest blackbird you’ll ever see. But it’s just one of many intriguing items associated with America’s…
The Fame of Charles Lindbergh
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/25Jul23-Lindbergh-Little-Falls-Minnesota-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s hare do describe just how famous this man had become. It’s estimated that in the late 1920s one in…
Seeing His First Airplane
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/24Jul23-Lindbergh-Little-Falls-Minnesota-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Do you remember seeing an important event for the first time when you were a kid. That was the case…
Boy Charles, The Inventor
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/21Jul23-Lindbergh-Little-Falls-Minnesota-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes kids, even from an early age, will give you a glimpse of what they might do or become as…
Lincoln’s 81 Bottle of Champagne
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/20Jul23-Lincoln-Vandalia-Illinois-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What was Abraham Lincoln doing with 81 bottles of champagne and 14 pounds of raisins? Thankfully he didn’t consume them…
Lincoln’s Start in Politics
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/19Jul23-Lincoln-Vandalia-Illinois-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You can go to Springfield, IL and learn plenty about president Abraham Lincoln. His home and presidential library are there. …
Teddy’s Unusual Pet
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/18Jul23-Fort-Wallace-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Presidents receive all kinds of gifts. One young resident of Sharon Springs, KS was so excited to see President Teddy…
Unearthing a Mystery
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/17Jul23-Fort-Wallace-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Doctors may be called upon to help people in all kinds of situations, but the request in Wallace, KS was…
Rescue of the German Family
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/14Jul23-Fort-Wallace-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Conflicts between Native Americans and westward moving settlers took place around Ft. Wallace, in western Kansas, during the years around…
Fort Wallace – Wallace, KS
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/13Jul23-Fort-Wallace-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today it is a small town in an area where towns are few and far between. Yet it is a…
Avoiding Locust Trees and Other Obstacles
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/12Jul23-Wright-Brothers-Dayton-Ohio-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Wright Brothers made their first flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. However, it was the farmers around Dayton that…
The Wright Brothers in Dayton, Ohio
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/11Jul23-Wright-Brothers-Dayton-Ohio-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Although Kitty Hawk, North Carolina received most of the attention regarding the Wright Brothers first flight, it was this Ohio…
Canton, Kansas and Its Famous Water Towers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/10Jul23-Canton-Kansas-Water-Towers.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Just about every town has a water tower. Canton, Kansas has not one, but two such towers, similar in size…
Inside Andy’s Sherriff Office
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/07Jul23-Mayberry-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most of us have at least seen an episode or two of the Andy Griffith Show. A good chunk of…
Patrolling Like Andy & Barney
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/06Jul23-Mayberry-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you build your own police car, take to the roads and turn on the siren, well, you might quickly…
Mt. Airy, North Carolina
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/05Jul23-Mayberry-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Mt. Airy, North Carolina is a town of about 10,000 people. If you type the name of the town into…