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More Than An Ice Cream Cone
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/27Sep21-Youngs-Dairy-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When is an ice cream cone more than just ice cream in a cone? It is here. It’s a family…
Young’s Jersey Dairy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/24Sep21-Youngs-Dairy-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)North of Xenia, Ohio you’ll find a dairy farm with quite a history. Not only have they been milking cows…
Hotel of the Hall of Famers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/23Sep21-Otesage-Hotel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Baseball Hall of Fame has an induction ceremony each year and when that event takes place, the baseball greats…
Last of the Mohicans
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/22Sep21-Otesage-Hotel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Perhaps you remember the book and the movie, the Last of the Mohicans. James Fennimore Cooper was the author of…
Pioneer Days of Ten Sleep, Wyoming
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/21Sep21-Wyoming-Homesteader-Hester-Currence.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you are a resident of Wyoming, a four or five hour drive to get somewhere may not seem too…
A Museum Dedicated to Advertising
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/20Sep21-Museum-of-Advertising.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If it were not for sponsors…daily broadcasts like this…and radio stations themselves for that matter would not be able to…
Amazing Photos from A Historic Event
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/17Sep21-Union-Pacific-Railroad-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This company was created from scratch in the 1860s. From the start, those founders knew that their work would be…
West from Mile Zero
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/16Sep21-Union-Pacific-Railroad-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This is Mile Zero. For several years mile zero of this railroad would only take you to the banks or…
Lincoln’s Site To Begin a Railroad
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/15Sep21-Union-Pacific-Railroad-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Abraham Lincoln had an important decision to make. Where would be the beginning point of a new railroad. We don’t…
Who Inhabited Russel Cave?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/14Sep21-Russell-Cave-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today you might get bad teeth from drinking too much soda…ten thousand years ago teeth were a problem as well…but…
The Unusual National Park Cave
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/13Sep21-Russell-Cave-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a cave in the national park system…yet it is far different that well known sites such as Mammoth Cave…
The Salt King’s Home
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/10Sep21-Arbor-Day-Farm-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You probably know this gentleman’s son for the salt company he founded that bears his name. but the father was…
A Place With No Trees Was No Place For Him
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/09Sep21-Arbor-Day-Farm-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may enjoy a tree for its beauty, it’s shade, or perhaps the fruit that comes from it. But when…
Where is the Applegate Trail?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/08Sep21-Applegate-Trail.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most people have heard of the Oregon Trail…but few have come across the Applegate Trail…yet it was the latter that…
The French Arrive in Illinois
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/07Sep21-Chester-Illinois-History-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Take a drive south of St. Louis on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River and you’ll find some very…
Illinois’ Largest City – A Long Time Ago
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/06Sep21-Chester-Illinois-History-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Illinois’ Largest City – A Long Time Ago Chicago is by far the largest city in the state of Illinois. …
The Guy Who Liked Spinach
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/08/03Sep21-Chester-Illinois-Popeye-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A lot of people don’t like spinach, but this guy did. In fact he really liked spinach. And when he…
Drawing Caricatures of Locals
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/08/02Sep21-Chester-Illinois-Popeye-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There was no doubt this young man had talent. He was operating motion picture as the local opera house in…
Elzie Segar’s Story
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/08/01Sep21-Chester-Illinois-Popeye-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The name Elzie Segar doesn’t resonate with most folks, unless you happen to live in Chester, Illinois. Folks there know…
Secret Routes to Freedom
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/08/31Aug21-Alton-Illinois-Underground-Railroad-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine unearthing history from nearly two centuries ago to find the secret routes people used to gain their freedom. That’s…