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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/08/Iditarod-Headquarters-Reddington-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 948.8KB)For the next three features here on the American Countryside you’re in for a real treat as we discover what…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/08/Palmer-Alaska-Farmers-Market.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 952.9KB)When you think of fertile farmland, you perhaps think of a location with deep rich soil in the Midwest. But…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/08/Silver-Moon-Feeds.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 954.7KB)You can buy feed from a lot of different places, but what makes Silver Moon Feeds special is how this…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/08/Butte-Speakeasy-2009.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 954.7KB)Beginning in 1920, the 18th Amendment made the manufacturing and consumption of alcohol illegal until it was repealed in 1933….

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/08/Battle-of-the-Hemp-Bales.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)The bullet holes still scar the inside and outside of this home, a place that was a hospital during a…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/08/Marsh-Billings-Rockafeller-NHP-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)You’ve heard of Yellowstone and Yosemite, but try naming the State of Vermont’s only national park…..

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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/08/WCAZ-Radio.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.9MB)Today’s program comes from the studios of WCAZ Radio in Carthage, Illinois. It’s a place with a long tradition in…

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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/08/Mt-Washington-Auto-Road-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)It was big news when this mountain road opened…not because it linked two cities, but rather because it linked tourists…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/08/Kansas-Cosmosphere-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Today we’re back in Hutchinson, KS and say hello to our listeners on KWBW. I can attest to what folks…

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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/08/Town-and-Country-Inn-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 953.7KB)Many hotels host important guests…but Scott Labnon’s family owned property is guaranteed to see plenty of secret service and presidential…

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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/08/Hatch-Chili-2009.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.4MB) If you play with fire you’re liable to get burned. But on Jim Lidle’s farm, fire is what they…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/07/John-Fenzell-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:06 — 1.9MB)Sunday was a day of worship in Hampshire, Illinois…both for the American residents and their friends, the German POWs. The…