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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…
Where the B-52 Crashed
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/09May23-North-Carolina-Nuclear-Bomb-Field-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In early 1961 a B52 crashed in a farm field about 12 miles north of Goldsboro, North Carolina. The tragic…
Origins of 3M
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/08May23-Two-Harbors-Minnesota-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Roll back the clock to the late 1800s and the people of Two Harbor, Minnesota would tell you this company…
The Mighty Edna G
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/05May23-Two-Harbors-Minnesota-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are many people that tout a variety of diet plans. We may have a new idea to add to…
Twenty Boat Pile-up
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/04May23-Two-Harbors-Minnesota-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s been over a century since one major storm hit the shores of western Lake Superior. However the twenty plus…
The Presidential Caravan
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/03May23-Ray-Starling-Air-Force-One-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There’s a part of many of us that wishes we could take to the open road, with no one around…
