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Wamego’s Famous Exhibition
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/06Jun23-Wizard-of-Oz-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In Wamego, Kansas you’ll find the Columbian Theatre. It’s history is a story in its own right. However, the larger…
Top Secret Pastor
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/05Jun23-Christian-Christiansen-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The military exercise was top secret. When this mission was finally opened to the public, the reverend who played the…
The Pastor Who Saved the World From Nuclear Destruction
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/02Jun23-Christian-Christiansen-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)During World War II the Germans raced against the Americans to be the first to successfully build an atomic bomb. …
Gardner, Illinois and the Two Cell Jail
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/01Jun23-Gardner-Illinois-Jail.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The need for maximum security prisons is an unfortunate reality of life. On the other end of the spectrum is…
Twice a POW
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/31May23-Ripavilla-Plantation-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine being taken a prisoner of war, not once but twice and while you were away from home, the opposing…
Paying the Son To Choose a Different Spouse
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/30May23-Ripavilla-Plantation-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are times when a family is not thrilled with a son’s choice of a spouse. There may be many…
The Higgins Boat Memorial
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/29May23-Higgins-Boat-Columbus-Nebraska.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Every Memorial Day we remember our family and friends who have passed. Many communities will also remember their veterans and…
Hitchhiking to Meet the Civil War Drummer Boy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/25May23-Milt-Torati-Veteran-Stories-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)I will confess, there are some interviews for this show that sent me driving hundreds of miles just to meet…
Heading to Vietnam
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/24May23-Milt-Torati-Veteran-Stories-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes when a conflict erupts somewhere around the world, young men will volunteer for the war effort. That was the…
Stallion Bonnie Scotland
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/23May23-Belle-Meade-Plantation-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of a horse named Bonnie Scotland. However, there’s a good chance you’ve heard…
Why the Thoroughbred Industry Moved from Tennessee to Kentucky
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/22May23-Belle-Meade-Plantation-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we know Kentucky as home to some of the top thoroughbred farms in the nation. However, roll back the…
Beginnings of Belle Meade
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/19May23-Belle-Meade-Plantation-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When John Harding moved to this property, it was just another parcel of land just outside the town of Nashville. …
Helping Veterans Tell Their Story
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/26May23-Milt-Torati-Veteran-Stories-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)I like to say that everyone has a story. Today’s guest helps people tell their story. In fact, he helps…
The Presidential Limo Collection
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/18May23-Presidential-Limo-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)March 30th, 1981. After delivering a speech at the Washington Hilton Hotel, President Ronald Regan was hit by a bullet…
President Kenney’s Limo
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/17May23-Presidential-Limo-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may have heard people say that president Kennedy would have never been assassinated in Dallas if he ordered the…
Origins of the Presidential Limo
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/16May23-Presidential-Limo-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we begin a three part series on one of the most luxurious and secure automobiles in America – the…
Moving the Birthplace of America?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/15May23-Henry-Ford-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The birthplace of America is often considered to be Independence Hall, the site of the signing of the Declaration of…
The Henry Ford
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/12May23-Henry-Ford-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Edison, Ford and Firestone. They are some of the best known inventors and businessmen of the 20th century. But not…
Evidence of a Hole in the Ground
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/11May23-North-Carolina-Nuclear-Bomb-Field-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Brent Tyndall has people pulling in his driveway just about every weekend. They are looking for something, but can’t quite…
A Thermonuclear Weapon in the Mud
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/10May23-North-Carolina-Nuclear-Bomb-Field-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)At the time it was just speculation, but today we know that in early 1961, there was a thermonuclear weapon…
