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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Today’s topic is the history of vacuum cleaners during the 1920s and 30s. Think it sounds boring? Hold on and I think you’ll find Tom Gasko will spin some tails that will fascinate you…
I have a feeling today’s subject is really going to suck you in. In a moment you’ll see what a pun that it, but I have a feeling, our guest will truly suck you into a topic you probably didn’t think could be that interesting…
How much money can a high school kid make working a summer job? For Tom Gasko, he made enough cash to buy a new Trans Am. What did he do?
Perhaps we’ve seen a dinosaur skeleton on display at a museum. This stretch of land in eastern Utah might well be the closest thing to seeing such a exhibit in real life. It’s called Dinosaur National Monument…
We’ve all lost something and then spent lots of time looking where we placed it. You could say that was somewhat the case for this National Monument. An archaeologist knew the bones were here…it just took a long time to figure out exactly where they were…
Criminals may do just about anything to get their hands on what they want. But in western Kansas in 1879, one cattleman was duped by a scheme far different that anything anyone has ever seen–before or since…
He was one of the youngest men to the sign the Declaration of Independence. He was also the first to die from natural causes after the new nation was born…
When you think of the men behind the Declaration of Indpendence you don’t think of people like Thomas Stone. However, one could argue it is men like Stone who made up the majority of the 56 men to sign the document…
It’s not the Hard Rock Café…and frankly…that is just fine with about everyone that stops here. It’s been called the Rock Café since it was built in the depression…rock, not because of the music, but because of the material used to build it…
Did you ever meet someone famous and then tell everyone about your encounter? That’s in a sense what Jack does for a living. But it’s more than just telling a story about some well-known celebrity…
How to you become a well known actor in Hollywood? Well, that’s what Jack had to figure out, but it was his dream to head west and make a go of it on screen…
Sometime you just need a break, a stroke of luck, the ball to bounce your way. Jack Stahlman got it. He just happened to run into a man who could help him, but he had no idea who he was…
We often think of ethanol as a home grown and domestically consumed product. That statement is true, but there is a growing export market for the fuel and that may have a big impact on economies here and abroad…
Once upon a time, I gave a speech as a FFA member titled, “Ethanol, the Farmer’s Link to Solving the Energy Crisis.” I’m don’t know if my speech still holds water today, but with a lot of talk lately about E15 blended gas…well, I thought if time to learn more…
His name is one from our history books, but perhaps we have forgotten just how important his role was in saving the lives of the Pilgrims. We know him as Squanto, a native American that made six trips across the Atlantic in his lifetime and a man who those first settlers said was sent from […]
