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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/29Apr22-Pima-Air-and-Space-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine flying a plane called the “Super Guppy.”  There are only two in existence and one is here for the…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/28Apr22-Pima-Air-and-Space-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The President of the United States flies in Air Force One…and to some extent they can customize the ride to…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/27Apr22-Pima-Air-and-Space-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In Tucson, Arizona you’ll find a place dubbed “the boneyard.”  It’s a military facility that scraps old airplanes.    Across the…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/03/15Mar22-Copper-Queen-Mine.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ll find plenty of wild mining stories in southern Arizona.  One of the biggest tales includes a mine where you…

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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/07/05Jul21-San-Marcos-Hotel.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Phoenix, Arizona has plenty of golf resorts that attract thousands of visitors, but ask someone who established the first course…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/14Jun21-The-Boneyard-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s the fifth largest air force in the world…but few of the planes here will fly…or even if they could,…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/11Jun21-The-Boneyard-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you were looking for some used parts to repair your car, you might go to a scrapyard to find…

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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/01/18Jan21-Arivaca-Boys-Ranch-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Bible’s parable of the prodigal son shares the story of a wayward young man that comes home to a…

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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/01/14Jan21-Arivaca-Boys-Ranch-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)For over a century, this ranch near Arizona’s border with Mexico has raised thousands of head of cattle, herded by…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/18Jun20-Copper-Queen-Mine.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Under the earth in southern Arizona you’ll find a place that brought people to the dry, wide open stretches of…

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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/04/08May20-Fort-Bowie-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)At the same time the Civil War was being waged, another war occupied troops in southern Arizona. It was a…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/04/01May20-Iran-Hostage-Tom-Schafer-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was a stand-off that would consume parts of three calendar years. Today we take a look back at the…

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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/04/29Apr20-Iran-Hostage-Tom-Schafer-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Tom was working at the U.S. embassay in Theran in the late 1970s, and soon he and fifty-one other Americans…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/04/28Apr20-Iran-Hostage-Tom-Schafer-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)All Tom Schafer was looking for was a warmer place to work.  Unfortunately for him, he chose Iran in 1978…