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Train Service from Clarksville

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/13Mar12-Clarksville-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)In the early and mid 1900s, passenger train service was common in most cities of any size.  Today the passengers…

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Posted in American Countryside Florida

Plant City, Florida’s Strawberries

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/12Mar13-Plant-City-Strawberries-Ray-Clark.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Plant City, Florida is well known for its strawberries.  In fact, their annual strawberry festival will attract more people than…

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Posted in American Countryside Michigan

A Family With Military History

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/11Mar13-Custer-Monroe-Michigan-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)When news of the defeat at the Little Bighorn reached Monroe, Michigan, this town had an extra reason to mourn….

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Posted in American Countryside Miscellaneous

The Historic Surrender Table

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/08Mar13-Custer-Monroe-Michigan-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)There are several portraits that show the surrender of General Lee to General Grant at Appomattox.  Those scenes usually display…

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Posted in American Countryside History

The Hometown of George Armstrong Custer

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/06Mar13-Custer-Monroe-Michigan-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)We know him for the battle at the Little Bighorn.  But to know just that one fact is to miss…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of California

A Train Depot in Palm Springs

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/05Mar13-Palm-Springs-History.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)When the rails came through this stretch of dry wilderness, the only people living here were the Cahuilla Indians. What…

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Managing the Biggest Telescope in the World

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/04Mar13-Arecibo-Observatory-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Today we say hello to our listeners in the Archbold, Ohio area.  One of their farm kids grew up to…

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Posted in American Countryside Miscellaneous Puerto Rico

Just What Is a Close Call With an Asteroid?

IMG_0014On occasion you may here a story about an asteroid making a close pass to our planet.  So who tells you whether it will be a “close call” or a direct hit?  And how far in advance could they tell you the answer?  Today we visit with a man who can provide many of those answers…..

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Posted in American Countryside Presidents

New Ways to Explore the Universe

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/28Feb13-Arecibo-Observatory-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)It’s a marvel of science and engineering – a construction project so large that it took three years to complete….

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Near Liberation from a POW Camp

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/27Feb13-POW-Tom-Crosby.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 1.4MB)American troops had finally made it to Manila and were attempting to free POWs like Tom Crosby. Just when things…

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Farming Next to the Ocean

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/26Feb13-AgriGold-Puerto-Rico-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)The scenery that surrounds this place looks anything but Midwestern.  Yet, it’s the work that is done here that impacts…

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Posted in American Countryside Puerto Rico

Planting Three or Four Crops a Year

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/25Feb13-AgriGold-Puerto-Rico-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Most farmers plant their seeds in the spring and harvest in the fall.  But on this farm, Spring is just…

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Posted in American Countryside Presidents

President’s Week 2013: Calvin Coolidge

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/22Feb13-Coolidge-Inauguration.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)It all happened in the middle of the night.  The citizens of the United States went to bed on August…

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President’s Week 2013: Teddy Roosevelt

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/21Feb13-Roosevelt-Inauguration.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)He is one of four faces on Mt. Rushmore…but what you may not know is exactly how he became president….

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President’s Week 2013: Grover Cleveland

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/20Feb13-Grover-Cleveland.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)James Buchanan was the only U.S. president to never marry, but this president was also a bachelor when he arrived…

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President’s Week 2013: Ulysses Grant

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/19Feb13-Ulysses-Grant-Birthplace.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Presidential birthplaces are visited by many tourists each year.  But no home may have quite the story as this small…

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President’s Week 2013: Thomas Jefferson

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/18Feb13-Thomas-Jefferson-Agriculture.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)His face is one of four carved into Mt. Rushmore…but few know the story of how this well known president…

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Mastodon State Historic Site

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/15Feb13-Mastadon-State-Historic-Site.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Imagine you found the bones of an animal and had little idea exactly what you had found.  Now imagine making…

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Jay Eudy’s Pedal Tractors

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/14Feb13-Jay-Eudy-Pedal-Tractors-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Lots of kids love riding a pedal tractor and these days there are plenty of colors, sizes and models to…

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Looking For Someone to Paint Tractors

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/13Feb13-Jay-Eudy-Pedal-Tractors-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)It all began with some local implement dealers who needed a young man who could paint tractors.  When they asked…

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