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Putting Down Roots for a New Business
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/04/16Apr18-Wall-Drug-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The Depression was in full swing and a young family was looking for a place to put down roots and…
50 Years of Broadcasting Major League Baseball
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/04/13Apr18-Denny-Matthews-50th-Season-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)162 games a year for 50 years…that’s over 8000 baseball games…and this man has seen virtually every single one of…
Keeping the Listener Interested Calling a Ballgame
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/04/12Apr18-Denny-Matthews-50th-Season-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When a baseball broadcaster has to describe a game that is lackluster at best, they may resort to talking about…
Getting a Mule to Obey
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/04/11Apr18-Wilbur-Taylor-Mules-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Mules can be stubborn. So what do you do with a mule that simply won’t obey? Wilbur was told what…
A Medic Caring for Four Legs
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/04/10Apr18-Wilbur-Taylor-Mules-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Medics are an important part of an army, taking care of the wounded on the front lines, risking their own…
Taking Skills from the Farm to War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/04/09Apr18-Wilbur-Taylor-Mules-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Like many young American men in the 1940s, Wilbur Taylor was headed to war. But his job would be a…
Sorting the Facts and Myths of Edgar Allen Poe
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/03/06Apr18-Edgar-Allen-Poe-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Edgar Allen Poe could write some amazing fictional tales…but perhaps some of most intriguing fiction was that he told about…
One of the Nation’s Most Famous Writers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/03/05Apr18-Edgar-Allen-Poe-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)He is one of the nation’s most famous writers and although he bounced from city to city, it was here…
A Science Laboratory Open to the Public
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/03/04Apr18-Biosphere-II-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)You don’t often this of a science laboratory as a tourist attraction. While it wasn’t built for that purpose, it…
They Call It Biosphere 2
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/03/03Apr18-Biosphere-II-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)For the folks who work here, we don’t live on earth but rather Biosphere 1. That’s why their facility is…
More Than Plants Under Glass
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/03/02Apr18-Biosphere-II-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Some might call it a greenhouse, but it’s far more that plants under glass. It’s a amazing facility doing cutting…
A Life Bigger Than a Patent
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/03/30Mar18-Greenburg-Carl-Fisher.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He made millions with an important invention for an automobile. But his life was far bigger than just that patent…
A Meeting of Notables
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/03/29Mar18-Treaty-of-Greenville-Ohio-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The years was 1795 and on what was then the western frontier of the United States, a meeting of some…
Fort Greenville
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/03/28Mar18-Treaty-of-Greenville-Ohio-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It was one the largest forts of its day, yet a place hard to find a trace of today. The…
Westward Expansion and an Inevitable Confrontation
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/03/27Mar18-Treaty-of-Greenville-Ohio-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It is a story of westward expansion and the inevitable confrontation of those heading west and those already on the…
Working Together at Pipestone
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/03/26Mar18-Pipestone.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This place is so important in native American culture, that even when warring tribes arrived here, they put down their…
Buying A Glider for More Than One Reason
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/03/23Mar18-Henry-Ford-World-War-II-Gliders-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are under ten original World War II gliders to be found in the nation. People bought hundreds of surplus…
From Automaker to Glider Manufacturer
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/03/22Mar18-Henry-Ford-World-War-II-Gliders-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When World War II began, automakers suddenly switched from making cars to the equipment needed to win a war. The…
Henry Ford in the Upper Peninsula
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/03/21Mar18-Henry-Ford-Iron-Mountain.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We know Henry Ford as an early Detroit auto maker. So what was he doing buying a huge tract of…
Building A Museum Around an Exhibit
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/03/20Mar18-Cornish-Pump-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In Iron Mountain, Michigan you’ll find a museum with a very large exhibit – so large in fact, that the…
