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The First Friday Night Lights
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/26Sep25-First-Night-Football-Game-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Friday nights in the fall are a time when many high schools play football games. And of course, today many…
The Lighted Evolution of College Football
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/25Sep25-First-Night-Football-Game-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the 1890s the game of football was just beginning on some college campuses. That was the case in Mansfield,…
The Legacy of Emmett Till
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/24Sep25-Emmett-Till-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In Sumner, Mississippi you’ll find an old courthouse was a restored second floor courtroom. Today there are no trials, just…
A Watershed Moment in the Struggle for Civil Rights
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/23Sep25-Emmett-Till-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was supposed to be a summer trip for one young man from Chicago to visit his extended family. But…
Banding Together for a Purpose
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/22Sep25-Hemphill-Texas-NASA-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It some of the most difficult times, people often forget what separates them and band together to help those in…
The Event that Changed Hemphill, Texas Forever
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/19Sep25-Hemphill-Texas-NASA-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was February 1st, 2003. Residents of Hemphill, Texas heard what sounded like a giant explosion on an otherwise peaceful…
The World’s Largest Dessert
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/18Sep25-Apple-Festival-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many of us love to have a piece of apple pie and ice cream. In a moment I’ll tell you…
The Liberty Kentucky Apple Festival
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/17Sep25-Apple-Festival-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many small towns across the country have a celebration that honors the things that make that place special. In Liberty,…
Elk County, Pennsylvania
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/16Sep25-Elk-County-Pennsylvania-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you think the state of Pennsylvania mostly looks like Philadelphia and Pittsburg, you should take a trip here. In…
Where Elk Roamed
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/15Sep25-Elk-County-Pennsylvania-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When you think of places were elk roam forests and wilderness areas, you perhaps do not think of this state. …
The Mystery of the Ruby Red Slippers
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/12Sep25-Judy-Garland-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)One of the most visited exhibits at the Smithsonian Institution is the red slippers worn by Dorthy in the Wizard…
Known for One Role
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/11Sep25-Judy-Garland-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes celebrities in showbiz are known by one particular role they played, no matter the entirety of their life’s work. …
Frances Ethel Gumm
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/10Sep25-Judy-Garland-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of Frances Ethel Gumm. You know her by a different name and I’m…
The Pebble Hill Plantation
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/09Sep25-Pebble-Hill-Plantation-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You know you have quite a farm and mansion when the stables are many times larger, and nicer, than many…
The Ownership Change of an Antebellum Home
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/08Sep25-Pebble-Hill-Plantation-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You can still find several antebellum homes scattered throughout the southern United States. While this home has similar roots, it…
350 Miles of Tunnels Underground
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/08/05Sep25-Good-Enough-Mine-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Not many people set out to own a historic gold and silver mine. That was the case for Andre, but…
The Good Enough Mine
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/08/04Sep25-Good-Enough-Mine-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the first miners hit veins of ore here, they knew it was “good enough” to open a profitable mine. …
What Was Known as Goose Flats
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/08/03Sep25-Good-Enough-Mine-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Not many folks have heard of Goose Flats, Arizona. After all, the most exciting thing in Goose Flats was the…
The Giant Title Holder
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/08/02Sep25-Alaska-Vegetable-Grower-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Scott Robb holds many world records. That fact makes him a well-recognized man among Alaskan farmers and among those who…
Breaking a Century-Old Record
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/08/01Sep25-Alaska-Vegetable-Grower-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine a record that stood for over a century. That’s quite a mark to be broken, but today, Scott Robb…
