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Best of 2018: Wall Drug
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/12/28Dec18-Best-of-2018-Wall-Drug.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What’s the first thing a father teaches his son about being a good businessman? How to make donuts of course! …
Best of 2018: Todd Syrup Farm
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/12/27Dec18-Best-of-2018-Todd-Syrup-Farm.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)Lots of people enjoy pure maple syrup. But if you ask this farmer what he thinks of it, well you’ll…
Best of 2018: Billy the Kid
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/12/26Dec18-Best-of-2018-Billy-the-Kid.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When two different cities, in two different states claim to have the body of the same man, well, you know…
The Holiday Christmas Store
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/12/25Dec18-Holiday-Christmas-Store.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If Santa Claus needed a place to buy all of his decorations, this would be it. It’s big business in…
Twas the Night
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/12/24Dec18-Twas-the-Night-Before.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)We know the words of “’twas the night before Christmas;” words that helped solidify the image of Santa over 200…
The Scene of a Winter Battle
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/12/21Dec18-Stones-River-National-Battlefield-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:03 — 2.1MB)The Union army was defeated at Fredricksburg, Virginia in mid December 1862. President Lincoln needed a victory to bolster the…
That Smell in the Air
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/12/20Dec18-College-of-the-Ozarks-Fruitcake-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The college president smelled something. It was not a bad odor, but rather something pleasant. And soon his nose led…
A Christmas Tradition
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/12/19Dec18-College-of-the-Ozarks-Fruitcake-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Many of us have Christmas traditions. At this college there is a Christmas tradition that has raised money for these…
A Business Totally Run By Volunteers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/12/18Dec18-St-James-Coffeehouse-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a business that is run totally by volunteers. What’s interesting is many of the volunteers are middle and high…
A Small Town Coffee House
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/12/17Dec18-St-James-Coffeehouse-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Many towns have one or more coffee houses. But in St. James, Missouri the local coffeehouse may have a familiar…
Ideas for an Anniversary Gift
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/12/14Dec18-Vacuum-Museum-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Perhaps today’s edition of our show is advice for husbands who need to purchase an anniversary gift. If you make…
The History of Vacuum Cleaners
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/12/13Dec18-Vacuum-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today’s topic is the history of vacuum cleaners during the 1920s and 30s. Think it sounds boring? Hold on and…
A Story to Suck You In
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/12/12Dec18-Vacuum-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)I have a feeling today’s subject is really going to suck you in. In a moment you’ll see what a…
Making Cash to Buy a Car…Leading to a Lifetime Interest
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/12/11Dec18-Vacuum-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)How much money can a high school kid make working a summer job? For Tom Gasko, he made enough cash…
Dinosaur National Monument
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/12/10Dec18-Dinosaur-National-Monument-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Perhaps we’ve seen a dinosaur skeleton on display at a museum. This stretch of land in eastern Utah might well…
Pinpointing the Location of Bones
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/07Dec18-Dinosaur-National-Monument-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)We’ve all lost something and then spent lots of time looking where we placed it. You could say that was…
A Cattleman’s Scheme
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/06Dec18-Leon-Belmont.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Criminals may do just about anything to get their hands on what they want. But in western Kansas in 1879,…
One of the Youngest to Sign the Declaration of Independence
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/05Dec18-Thomas-Stone-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)He was one of the youngest men to the sign the Declaration of Independence. He was also the first to…
A Man Named Thomas Stone
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/04Dec18-Thomas-Stone-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)When you think of the men behind the Declaration of Indpendence you don’t think of people like Thomas Stone. However,…
The Rock Café
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/03Dec18-Rock-Café.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It’s not the Hard Rock Café…and frankly…that is just fine with about everyone that stops here. It’s been called the…
