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The Kingsley Plantation
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/05/06May19-Kingsley-Plantation-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The story of Kingsley Plantation is certainly fascinating…and when you factor in the life’s journey of the land owner’s wife…it…
A Rich History
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/04/03May19-Kingsley-Plantation-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The ground where this plantation stands passed from Spanish to English and then back to Spanish control before it ever…
A Man From Every State to Build the Hoover Dam
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/04/02May19-Boulder-City-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It took men from every state in the nation and many nations of the world to build Hoover Dam…
An Engineering Feat in the Desert
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/04/01May19-Boulder-City-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s still an engineering wonder of the world – a feat some thought impossible, yet something that became a reality…
The Honey War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/04/30Apr19-The-Honey-War.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)War never tasted so sweet, at least that’s what some say when they speak of a conflict waged between Iowa…
The Oldest Fort in the Nation’s Oldest City
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/04/29Apr19-Castillo-de-San-Marcos-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s the oldest fort in the nation’s oldest city…and that means it can tell plenty of stories about many different…
A Fort with a Storied History
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/04/26Apr19-Castillo-de-San-Marcos-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s a place that has been attacked by the British, the army of the confederacy and even bands of Pirates….
The Foundation for Settling an Area
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/04/25Apr19-Lucas-Kansas-Post-Rock.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)You can find a rock just about anyplace on earth, but if you want to see this particular type of…
Involved with a Favorite Pastime
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/04/24Apr19-Lucas-Kansas-Grassroots-Arts-Center.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Many people take up or expand a hobby once they retired. Many of the people living in and around this…
A Beautiful Public Restroom
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/04/23Apr19-Lucas-Kansas-Public-Toilet.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)A public restroom is usually not a thing of beauty. It’s just designed to take care of the need at…
Driving Long Distances for a Favorite Recipe
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/04/22Apr19-Brants-Meat-Market-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Maybe some of your favorite food involves a recipe that was handed down from your grandma, or even generations before…
No Flashy Signs or the Latest Technology
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/04/19Apr19-Brants-Meat-Market-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Some stores lure customers with the flashy signs and the latest technology. That’s not the case here, and that’s what…
Civil War History in Sycamore, Illinois
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/04/18Apr19-Sycamore-Illinois-Civil-War-History.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In the days after the Civil War, some African American families moved north with the Union troops with which they…
A Family Owned Lake Resort
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/04/17Apr19-Campbells-Resort-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)There are lake resorts all across this nation…but it’s not everyday that you encounter a family owned operation that has…
Campbell’s Resort
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/04/16Apr19-Campbells-Resort-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Today we have another installment of our American Countryside Café feature. Although today’s feature is as much about a hotel…
The Largest Hydroelectric Dam in the Nation
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/04/15Apr19-Grand-Coulee-Dam.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It is the largest hydroelectric dam in the nation…spanning just a few feet shy of one mile across and over…
The Downs, Kansas Train Depot
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/04/12Apr19-Downs-Kansas-Railroad-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Maybe you live in a town that still has a train depot – or one that preserved the one they…
Rails in the Blood
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/04/11Apr19-Downs-Kansas-Railroad-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Today we say hello to our listeners in Beloit, KS on KVSV. One loyal listener there knows much about the…
Time in a POW Camp
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/04/10Apr19-Bill-Shuck-B-17-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)By the end of WW II, Bill Shuck was in POW camp with 9000 other English and American airman. This…
Bailing Out of a Burning Plane
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/04/09Apr19-Bill-Shuck-B-17-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Bill Shuck’s B17 bomber had been struck by flack…and now he and the crew had to bail out of the…
