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The Struggle Just to Get to School
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/21Jun23-Raymond-Hagan-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we take things like a high school education for granted. If you want a diploma, you usually have access…
The Life of Father Kapaun
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/20Jun23-Farther-Emil-Kapaun-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Pilsen, Kansas is probably not on your way to most places you need to get. Yet many people go out…
Carrying The Wounded – Caring For Souls
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/19Jun23-Farther-Emil-Kapaun-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If someone needs help, we might say that others figuratively carried them to where they needed to be. In this…
Run to the Sound of the Battle
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/16Jun23-Farther-Emil-Kapaun-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The army needs brave soldiers. In this battle, it seemed the bravest of them all was a man in the…
Pilsen, Kansas’ Skyline
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/15Jun23-Farther-Emil-Kapaun-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Drive to the small town of Pilsen, Kansas and there’s one building that dominates the skyline. It’s the steeple of…
Many Nations – One Island
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/14Jun23-St-Croix-Alexander-Hamilton-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Spanish were the first Europeans to arrive here. Then the French rules the island, followed by the Danes. Finally…
An Amazing Route to the U.S. Treasury
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/13Jun23-St-Croix-Alexander-Hamilton-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today a high school or college student might take an internship to learn the basics they need for a certain…
The Beginnings of Alexander Hamilton
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/12Jun23-St-Croix-Alexander-Hamilton-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Historians don’t agree whether this U.S. founding father was born in 1755 or 1757. He never arrived in what is…
Easternmost Point in U.S. Territory
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/08Jun23-Wizard-of-Oz-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s the easternmost point in U.S. territory…an island purchased by the United States in 1916. If you come here to…
The Most Watched Movie of All Time
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/08Jun23-Wizard-of-Oz-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1939 two major movies were released at the same time. One was “Gone with the Wind,” one of the…
Frank, the Great Storyteller
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/07Jun23-Wizard-of-Oz-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some people can spin great stories. By all accounts, Frank was a great story teller, but his audience was just…
Wamego’s Famous Exhibition
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/06Jun23-Wizard-of-Oz-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In Wamego, Kansas you’ll find the Columbian Theatre. It’s history is a story in its own right. However, the larger…
Top Secret Pastor
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/05Jun23-Christian-Christiansen-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The military exercise was top secret. When this mission was finally opened to the public, the reverend who played the…
The Pastor Who Saved the World From Nuclear Destruction
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/02Jun23-Christian-Christiansen-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)During World War II the Germans raced against the Americans to be the first to successfully build an atomic bomb. …
Gardner, Illinois and the Two Cell Jail
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/01Jun23-Gardner-Illinois-Jail.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The need for maximum security prisons is an unfortunate reality of life. On the other end of the spectrum is…
Twice a POW
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/31May23-Ripavilla-Plantation-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine being taken a prisoner of war, not once but twice and while you were away from home, the opposing…
Paying the Son To Choose a Different Spouse
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/30May23-Ripavilla-Plantation-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are times when a family is not thrilled with a son’s choice of a spouse. There may be many…
The Higgins Boat Memorial
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/29May23-Higgins-Boat-Columbus-Nebraska.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Every Memorial Day we remember our family and friends who have passed. Many communities will also remember their veterans and…
Hitchhiking to Meet the Civil War Drummer Boy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/25May23-Milt-Torati-Veteran-Stories-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)I will confess, there are some interviews for this show that sent me driving hundreds of miles just to meet…
Heading to Vietnam
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/24May23-Milt-Torati-Veteran-Stories-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes when a conflict erupts somewhere around the world, young men will volunteer for the war effort. That was the…
