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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…

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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…

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Posted in American Countryside Tennessee

Stallion Bonnie Scotland

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/23May23-Belle-Meade-Plantation-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of a horse named Bonnie Scotland.  However, there’s a good chance you’ve heard…

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Posted in American Countryside Tennessee

Why the Thoroughbred Industry Moved from Tennessee to Kentucky

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/22May23-Belle-Meade-Plantation-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we know Kentucky as home to some of the top thoroughbred farms in the nation.  However, roll back the…

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Beginnings of Belle Meade

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/19May23-Belle-Meade-Plantation-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When John Harding moved to this property, it was just another parcel of land just outside the town of Nashville. …

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Helping Veterans Tell Their Story

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/26May23-Milt-Torati-Veteran-Stories-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)I like to say that everyone has a story.  Today’s guest helps people tell their story.  In fact, he helps…

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Posted in American Countryside Michigan

The Presidential Limo Collection

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/18May23-Presidential-Limo-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)March 30th, 1981.  After delivering a speech at the Washington Hilton Hotel, President Ronald Regan was hit by a bullet…

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President Kenney’s Limo

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/17May23-Presidential-Limo-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may have heard people say that president Kennedy would have never been assassinated in Dallas if he ordered the…

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Origins of the Presidential Limo

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/16May23-Presidential-Limo-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we begin a three part series on one of the most luxurious and secure automobiles in America – the…

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Moving the Birthplace of America?

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/15May23-Henry-Ford-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The birthplace of America is often considered to be Independence Hall, the site of the signing of the Declaration of…

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The Henry Ford

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/12May23-Henry-Ford-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Edison, Ford and Firestone.  They are some of the best known inventors and businessmen of the 20th century.  But not…

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Evidence of a Hole in the Ground

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/11May23-North-Carolina-Nuclear-Bomb-Field-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Brent Tyndall has people pulling in his driveway just about every weekend.  They are looking for something, but can’t quite…

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A Thermonuclear Weapon in the Mud

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/10May23-North-Carolina-Nuclear-Bomb-Field-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)At the time it was just speculation, but today we know that in early 1961, there was a thermonuclear weapon…

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Where the B-52 Crashed

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/09May23-North-Carolina-Nuclear-Bomb-Field-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In early 1961 a B52 crashed in a farm field about 12 miles north of Goldsboro, North Carolina.  The tragic…

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Origins of 3M

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/08May23-Two-Harbors-Minnesota-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Roll back the clock to the late 1800s and the people of Two Harbor, Minnesota would tell you this company…

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The Mighty Edna G

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/05May23-Two-Harbors-Minnesota-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are many people that tout a variety of diet plans.  We may have a new idea to add to…

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Twenty Boat Pile-up

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/04May23-Two-Harbors-Minnesota-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s been over a century since one major storm hit the shores of western Lake Superior.  However the twenty plus…

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The Presidential Caravan

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/03May23-Ray-Starling-Air-Force-One-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There’s a part of many of us that wishes we could take to the open road, with no one around…

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Writing a Very Special Letter

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/02May23-Ray-Starling-Air-Force-One-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Did you ever go back and talk or write to a teacher to tell them the difference they made in…

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 Dinner with Mom or A Flight on…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/01May23-Ray-Starling-Air-Force-One-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We often cherish time spent with our mom.  That was the case for Ray Starling.  But in this case, dinner…

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