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Selling More Than Windmills
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/04/12Apr21-Windmill-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Good salesman can sell you an item you need. Great salesman find a way to sell you many items you…
The Biggest Buyer of Windmills
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/04/09Apr21-Windmill-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many farmers purchased windmills to pump water for their livestock. But there was someone else buying windmills for another purpose,…
Farm Technology 900 Years in the Making
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/04/08Apr21-Windmill-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Just about every farmstead had one at one time – many remain, although few still perform the task they were…
Bigger Than Life – Ethan Allen
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/04/07Apr21-Fort-Ticonderoga-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes history makes people seem bigger than life. That’s certainly true for a man named Ethan Allen and his band…
We Need Cannons
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/04/06Apr21-Fort-Ticonderoga-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was one of the most important forts of the late 1700s and interestingly, it changed hands twice without a…
The Bishop who Persuaded Lincoln
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/05Apr21-Fairbault-Minnesota-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The situation was bad, for all involved. But what was about to take place in Minnesota was an injustice to…
A New Bishop For a New State
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/02Apr21-Fairbault-Minnesota-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Henry Whipple perhaps had no plans to move west as a young man. But when he married, his wife encouraged…
Where the Straight Cannon Rivers Unite
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/01Apr21-Fairbault-Minnesota-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today the meeting of the Straight and Cannon Rivers is probably not as important as it was 200 years ago,…
The Founder of Faribault
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/31Mar21-Fairbault-Minnesota-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He was born on the frontier, and the frontier life is perhaps all he ever knew. So it should be…
Cemeteries without Headstones
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/30Mar21-Hopewell-Mounds-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Cemeteries usually have headstones to make the spot of loved ones who have passed. But this civilization used something far…
Long Before Columbus…
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/29Mar21-Hopewell-Mounds-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)History on this continent is young when compared to places like Europe…but that mentality is to forget about the centuries…
The Non-Electric Shopping Mall
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/26Mar21-Lehmans-Amish-Store-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you lived without electricity…either by choice or simply because of the location you lived…where would you go to find…
A Successful Business That’s Behind the Times
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/25Mar21-Lehmans-Amish-Store-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you’re going to do well in business you have to stay up with the times…but for jay Lehman…doing the…
The Amazing Invention with Little Attention
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/24Mar21-Wright-Brothers-Kittyhawk-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was an event so important that it had to be captured on film…yet when it actually occurred, few would…
Preparing for Flight
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/23Mar21-Wright-Brothers-Kittyhawk-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s one of those locations that when you say the name of the place, there’s just one event that pops…
Vincennes Rendezvous
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/22Mar21-Vincennes-Rendevous.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1779, soldiers of the American Revolution set foot here to capture lands for the new United States. Over two…
What One Man Did with the Skeletons in His Closet
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/19Mar21-Osteology-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Jay has a lot of skeletons in his closet. Oh, but there’s much more. He has skeletons just about everywhere…
Unearthing a Career
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/18Mar21-Osteology-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Jay’s father could have scolded him for what he’d unearthed. Most parents would say, “Put down that filthy thing!” His…
Where the Delta Meets the Ozarks
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/17Mar21-Powhatan-Arkansas-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we welcome our listeners in southern MO and northern AR on 92.3 KSAR. Folks there may know of a…
Remembering Powhatan, Arkansas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/16Mar21-Powhatan-Arkansas-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of Powhatan, Arkansas. However, this was once a thriving city with steamboat traffic…
