American Countryside
Summary: The American Countryside is truly a slice of Americana. It might be a well-known music or TV star or just someone with an interesting story that lives down the street. From Iditarod sled dog mushers, to NASA scientists... from the Rooster Crowing Championships to NFL greats...The American Countryside is sure to be of interest. Click the button above to listen to the latest show, or visit the American Countryside archives.
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When the Unites States when to war in the 1940, thousands of troops began to criss-cross the country headed to Europe or perhaps headed west to the Pacific theater of the war. Those trips could take countless hours and many along the route wanted to do their part of support those going abroad. One such […]
Perhaps you’ve visited places like Mt. Vernon and Monticello, homes of founding fathers Washington and Jefferson. If you travel to Katonah, New York you’ll find another home of a founding father…
Imagine being pregnant, enduring a shipwreck, being away from your home for several years, and then, being present to see the signing of a treaty to form a new nation in which you would reside…
Who was the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court? It was a position this man coveted, until he actually got the job…
Some have called him the forgotten founding father. Have you too forgotten about the man who was president before George Washington? We dig into our history books to the founding of the nation…
When you walk across the center of this large university campus as I did, you’ll find a wide, permanent line stretching several hundred yards. The story behind it is one you know from history…
Imagine a school teaching agriculture in a place where few students have seen a farm animal. It’s a unique setting that’s making a large impact on the lives of students…
It’s called “KINEKS.” It’s an acronym for positive personal characteristics each of us should possess and it’s the name of a foundation working to help young people in agriculture…
There is probably someone in each of our lives that truly inspires us. Jeffrey Thimgan was one such young man. But in his absence, his friends and family are working to accomplish all he had dreamed and more…
The shots at Ft. Sumter in April of 1861 are often considered the first military action of the Civil War. However, one could make a case that the battle in this Kansas town five years prior was the event that made the war inevitable…
In the years just ahead of the Civil War, thousands of people came to Kansas ahead of a critical vote on whether the new state would accept or reject slavery…
When you run across a building named the “Elephant Hotel,” well, there’s probably going to be an interesting story behind the place. That is the case…
Just about everyone one of us has visited a zoo and seen a circus. Now let me take you to a time when neither existed. It was a farmer from Sommers, New York, Hachaliah Bailey, that perhaps introduced many to those exotic animals…
It all began with a man who wanted to farm, not with a team of horses or mules, but rather with an elephant. And from there, the opportunities were endless. This is the story of an elephant that changed the course of American history…
This fort serviced the Pony Express, the Oregon Trail, and was around so long it even slept travelers by car. It’s a big history in a place with a lot of stories to share…
