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Barges on the River
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/11/24Nov21-Hannibal-Riverboat-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the nation was founded, waterways were the interstate highways of the day. Today those rivers can still move a…
What is Mark Twain?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/11/23Nov21-Hannibal-Riverboat-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Who is Mark Twain? Perhaps the better question is “What is Mark Twain?” Knowing what mark twain is will help…
From Deckhand to Captain
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/11/22Nov21-Hannibal-Riverboat-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Steve Terry grew up along the Mississippi River but he perhaps never imagined he would spend most of his career…
Quite a Way to Hide Money
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/11/19Nov21-Waldo-Missouri-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When Union and Confederate sympathizers threatened to take this bankers money, he did something quite unique – he dressed as…
Where’s Waldo?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/11/18Nov21-Waldo-Missouri-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may remember the popular Where’s Waldo books that had kids searching for a man hidden in pictures. Today we…
Sleeping in the Feed Mill
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/11/17Nov21-Lanesboro-MN-Stone-Mill-Hotel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most farming towns have a least one feed mill and Lanesboro, Minnesota is no exception. However, one of those feed…
The Tourist Town That Blossomed – A Century Later
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/11/16Nov21-Lanesboro-MN-Stone-Mill-Hotel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In southeastern Minnesota you’ll find a rolling landscape known as the Driftless area, and within that region there’s a town…
Pop Top Soda and More!
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/11/15Nov21-Dayton-Carillon-Historical-Park.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you’re over 40 years old, you probably remember aluminum cans that had the old pull off tabs. Today of…
Wright Flyer III
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/11/12Nov21-Wright-Brothers-Flyer.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Wright Brothers first took flight in 1903 and that plane is in the Smithsonian. But the brothers said there…
The Priest Who Went to the Supreme Court
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/11/11Nov21-Father-John-Cummings-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Normally a priest’s words are to inspire the local congregation. In this case, the priest’s words sent him to jail…
An Oath He Would Not Take
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/11/10Nov21-Father-John-Cummings-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)For many folks it seemed to be a good idea. Have people take an oath of allegiance to the nation. …
Who Is the Author of the 13th Amendment?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/11/09Nov21-John-Brooks-Henderson-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)On a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River you’ll find a bust of a U.S. Senator who authored one of the…
John Brooks Henderson
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/11/08Nov21-John-Brooks-Henderson-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There’s a good chance you’ve not heard of Senator John Brooks Henderson. On the surface he seemed an unlikely man…
New Melleray’s Caskets
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/05Nov21-New-Mellary-Abbey-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When people began attending funeral’s here, many had the exact same reaction. They mentioned that when they passed, they wanted…
New Melleray’s Timber Transformed
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/04Nov21-New-Mellary-Abbey-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)These men had about 3500 acres of farmland, pasture and timber. However, tilling the land they owned was becoming more…
Monks of the Union Army
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/03Nov21-New-Mellary-Abbey-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Who helped supply the Union army’s depot in Galena, IL during the Civil War? The monks at this abbey of…
How a World Class Italian Restaurant Wound up in Rural Kansas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/02Nov21-Mulvane-Kansas-Restaurant-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you love Italian food perhaps you dream of a trip to Tuscany in Italy to savor the true tastes…
The Unique Route From Tuscany to Kansas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/01Nov21-Mulvane-Kansas-Restaurant-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Nancy grew up in small town Kansas but had a desire to see the country and the world. For several…
Tombstone’s Birdcage Theatre
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/29Oct21-Birdcage-Theater-Arizona.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Over one hundred years ago it was a destination all the top entertainers hit while touring the southwest. Today it…
Exactly How Many Islands?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/28Oct21-Uncle-Sam-Boat-Tour-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They say there are one thousand islands here. Ron knows the exact number though, a number that may surprise the…
