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Heroes of Hinkley
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/08/01Sep22-Hinkley-Minnesota-Fire-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine a fire that could consume about 500 square miles in just four hours. Such a firestorm has not been…
The Race to Save the People of Hinkley
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/08/31Aug22-Hinkley-Minnesota-Fire-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It sounds like the script of an action adventure movie. A wall of fire approaches a city as townspeople rush…
Literal Firestorm Building
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/08/30Aug22-Hinkley-Minnesota-Fire-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We’re all familiar with Smokey Bear and his warnings to prevent forest fires. But imagine a fire with fuel that…
The Daily, Six-Hour Bus Ride
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/08/29Aug22-Monument-Valley-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some students must ride a bus to school. But imagine a school district where a student might spend nearly six…
The Modern Day Medicine Man
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/08/26Aug22-Monument-Valley-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may have thought the use of Medicine Men was a thing of the past. Not here. In fact, this…
Teaching Native American Traditions
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/08/25Aug22-Monument-Valley-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Clyde McBride may have never imagined he’d be teaching his students about Native American traditions in his High School agriculture…
The Premiere Animal Artist
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/08/24Aug22-Lotz-House-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of Matilda Lotz. However, if you happen to find one of her paintings,…
Fleeing the Fight in Franklin
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/08/23Aug22-Lotz-House-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we sometimes see news coverage of families fleeing their homes with shelling taking place all around them. That story…
The Lotz House in Franklin, Tennessee
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/08/22Aug22-Lotz-House-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In Franklin, TN you’ll find a small, historic home called the Lotz House. Step inside and you’ll learn not only…
Orphan Train Complex – Concordia, KS
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/08/19Aug22-Orphan-Train-Complex-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine being an orphan boarding a train on the East Coast, not knowing where your next home might be. That…
The Orphan Train
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/08/18Aug22-Orphan-Train-Complex-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In a restored rail depot building in Concordia, Kansas you can find an intriguing story of nearly a quarter million…
Visiting the Historic Soda Fountain
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/08/17Aug22-Forest-City-Missouri-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This is a story about people in small towns who are determined to make good things happen. They may have…
The River Leaves Town
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/08/16Aug22-Forest-City-Missouri-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The last steamboats docked here in 1868. In fact, some of theme didn’t make it out of town before the…
Forrest City – The Steamboat Port
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/08/15Aug22-Forest-City-Missouri-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you drive into Forrest City, Missouri these days newcomers might be surprised to learn a couple of facts about…
Tracking Down a Stolen Masterpiece
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/08/12Aug22-Kit-City-Carousel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We appreciate the folks listening on KNAB in Burlington, Colorado who helped us with a story that’s nearly a century…
An Over The Top Purchase
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/08/11Aug22-Kit-Carson-Carousel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The general public usually wants its elected officials to be fiscally responsible. But the purchase the commissioners in Kit Carson…
The Yellowstone Trail
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/08/10Aug22-Yellowstone-Trail-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we don’t think much of hoping on an interstate to zip from one location to the next. But a…
The Amazing Life of Michael Dowling
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/08/09Aug22-Yellowstone-Trail-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ve probably never heard of a man named Michael Dowling who spent most of his life in southwester Minnesota in…
The Minnesota Machinery Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/08/08Aug22-Minnesota-Machinery-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The school closed in the small town of Hanley Falls, Minnesota in the late 1970s. Many people wondered what to…
The Small But Mighty Popcorn Stand
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/07/05Aug22-Granite-Falls-Popcorn-Stand-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)1919 was an important year in Granite Falls, Minnesota. Amidst the hubbub of that year, people at the time wouldn’t…
