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Tennessee’s Most Photographic Building
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/02/15Feb22-Clarksville-Customs-House.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The local newspaper originally described it as “an eyesore and public laughing stock.” Quite a tagline for a building that…
White Cloud, KS Past and Future
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/02/14Feb22-White-Cloud-Past-and-Future.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many of us like to reminisce about the way things once were. They do that a bit in White Cloud,…
Origin of the Piggy Bank
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/02/11Feb22-White-Cloud-Piggy-Bank-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Maybe you had a piggy bank as a child, or perhaps you still do. In a moment I’ll take you…
Pete the Pig
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/02/10Feb22-White-Cloud-Piggy-Bank-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We all have causes that are close to our heart – organizations or individuals that we donate to in order…
White Cloud, Kansas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/02/09Feb22-White-Cloud-Kansas.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When you drive into White Cloud, Kansas, along the banks of the Missouri River, some people will see a ghost…
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/02/08Feb22-Patrick-Henry-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It may be one of the most famous speeches ever delivered. Even if you know nothing else of about the…
Who Lived at Red Hill?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/02/07Feb22-Patrick-Henry-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)His leadership skills rivaled those of Washington and Jefferson…and his speaking skills were superior…yet when you mention his home of…
This American City Speaks French
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/01/04Feb22-Fort-Kent-Maine-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some people like the sun, others like the snow and some need a little of both. But when you live…
The Top of Route 1
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/01/03Feb22-Fort-Kent-Maine-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Just as Route 66 is one of the most famous highways in American, this road running up and down the…
The Bank with Grizzlies and Beer Bottling Lines
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/01/02Feb22-Faribault-State-Bank-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)I had heard stories about the State Bank of Faribault. Sure you can deposit money there and get loans…but it’s…
The Mighty Faribault
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/01/01Feb22-Faribault-State-Bank-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we welcome our new listeners on the Mighty 920, KDHL in Faribault, Minnesota. Across from the radio station you’ll…
Fort Defiance Never Fired a Shot
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/01/31Jan22-Fort-Defiance.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most cities don’t renovate a Civil War fort that never fired a shot. Then again, one could make the case…
The Work of the Wallace Family
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/01/28Jan22-Henry-Wallace.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This father and son pair both served as the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. The son even became vice president of…
The First Great Train Robbery
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/01/27Jan22-Jesse-James-Train-Robbery.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Great train robberies are the stuff of wild west movies. In real life though, the first such event occurred here. …
From Car Trunks to Airplanes
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/01/26Jan22-Iowa-Aviation-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)For the past few days we’ve taken a look back at a stop I made in Greenfield, Iowa, home to…
He Could Have Beaten Lindbergh
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/01/25Jan22-Iowa-Aviation-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Charles Lindbergh was the first person to fly an airplane across the Atlantic Ocean. But lost in our history books…
First Flight Off of a Ship
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/01/24Jan22-Iowa-Aviation-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today, aircraft carriers and the planes they transport play a vital role in country’s military might. However, have you ever…
An Expert on a Reality Show
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/01/21Jan22-Mark-Hall-Patton.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It today’s world of reality television shows, things that once may have seemed quite ordinary have become worldwide hits. One…
A First White House Meeting
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/01/20Jan22-Ray-Starling-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was Ray’s first time in the Oval Office and he did not want to mess up his presentation. He…
An Ag Advisor in the White House
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/01/19Jan22-Ray-Starling-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)During the middle of the farm crisis in the 1980s, those in agriculture lobbied to have a full time staff…
