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Winning a National Championship in a Big Way

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/03/18Mar24-Babe-Didrikson-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)While individuals compete in track and field events, there is often a team component to the standings, with points awarded…

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An Olympic Qualifier on Another Level

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/03/15Mar24-Babe-Didrikson-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s difficult to know exactly how many medals this athlete might have won at the Olympics.  She qualified for several…

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Wide Enough Streets for U-Turns

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/03/14Mar24-Fredericksburg-Texas.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today cities don’t need to be laid out so that ox carts can make U-turns.  However, that was the plan…

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Riding A Horse Into the Hotel Lobby

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/03/13Mar24-Menger-Hotel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine a well-known general riding his horse into the lobby of a hotel…and it was met with applause.  Another military…

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Racing to Get a Hotel Room

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/03/12Mar24-Menger-Hotel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today just about every hotel room in America has a private bathroom included.  Turn back the clock over a century…

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Posted in American Countryside Wisconsin

Home of the Ice Cream Sundae

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/03/11Mar24-Two-Rivers-Ice-Cream-Sundae-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many of us enjoy an ice cream sundae.  We have our favorite flavors and toppings.  But were did that phrase,…

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The Sistine Chapel of Twin Rivers

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/08Mar24-Two-Rivers-Ice-Cream-Sundae-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some have referred to this place as the Sistine Chapel of this town.  No the ceilings aren’t as high, nor…

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Posted in American Countryside Wisconsin

An Art and Space Museum

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/07Mar24-Sputnik-Art-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Perhaps you don’t think you’d care to go to an art museum.  But what about a museum that had a…

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Kicking It to the Side of the Road

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/06Mar24-Sputnik-Art-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was the middle of the night and two police officers had happened upon a relatively small piece of smoldering…

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Posted in American Countryside Kansas

The Delivery Tree

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/05Mar24-Council-Grove-Kansas-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today if you need parts for your car or truck, you might just head to an auto repair store.  Turn…

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Messages Delivered in Weeks

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/04Mar24-Council-Grove-Kansas-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Before express mail or overnight delivery, messages traveled at a speed measured not in hours, but in weeks.  For those…

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Where Two Nations Could Met

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/01Mar24-Council-Grove-Kansas-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The hardwood trees along the Neosho River had been growing here for years.  In fact, many of those old trees…

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Posted in American Countryside Iowa

A Cedar Rapids Museum of the Past and Present

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/29Feb24-Czech-and-Slovak-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In Cedar Rapids, Iowa you’ll find an impressive museum that tells the past and present of a group of people…

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Speaking the Same Language

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/28Feb24-Czech-and-Slovak-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the 1800s many immigrant groups began to move from Europe to the United States.  Specific groups of people would…

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Posted in American Countryside Arizona

The Prescott Frontier Days Rodeo

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/27Feb24-Prescott-Frontier-Days-Rodeo-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you come to watch this rodeo, you’ll most likely be sitting in seats that were first used in 1913. …

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The First Rodeo

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/26Feb24-Prescott-Frontier-Days-Rodeo-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Where was the first rodeo held?  You’ll find some debate on the actual beginning point of the sport with several…

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Posted in American Countryside Oklahoma

A Long Way from Norway to Oklahoma

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/23Feb24-Heavener-Runestone-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a long way from Norway to Oklahoma.  That’s precisely why this story seems so hard to believe.  However, could…

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Early Oklahoma Visitors

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/22Feb24-Heavener-Runestone-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You can find ancient carvings of Native Americans in many parts of the country.  So when early settlers happened upon…

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Evidence of Vikings in Oklahoma

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/21Feb24-Heavener-Runestone-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you want to learn the story of ancient Vikings you would of course travel to Scandinavia…or Oklahoma of course. …

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Posted in American Countryside Arizona

A Visit to Jerome, Arizona

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/20Feb24-Jerome-Arizona-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many a mining boom town has experienced boom and bust.  When this town was just about gone it began to…

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