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Jailhouse Rock
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/02/23Feb22-Stockton-Jailhouse-Rock-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Elvis once sang about the jailhouse rock. In fact, many of us know that tune decades after it was first…
God’s Call to Visit the Jail
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/02/22Feb22-Stockton-Jailhouse-Rock-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Randy Hayward says he’s always tried to follow what God wanted him to do with his life. But what happened…
What’s Under Stockton, Missouri?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/02/21Feb22-Stockton-Missouri-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There were many reason the first pioneers selected specific spots to begin town and cities. It’s easy to find the…
Defeating Shelby’s Raiders
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/02/18Feb22-Stockton-Missouri-Jailhouse.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we say hello to our listeners on KYOO in Bolivar, Missouri. Just up the road in Stockton, town residents…
Tying the Knot a Lot
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/02/17Feb22-Las-Vegas-Weddings-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)February is of course the month noted for love…it’s the month we celebrate Valentine’s Day. There are many weddings that…
Vegas & Reno – Love & Divorce
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/02/16Feb22-Las-Vegas-Weddings-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This county performs more weddings than any other in the nation. You probably have a good idea where that county…
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. …
