http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/07May18-Tombstone-Arizona-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)This cemetery perhaps looks the exact opposite of Arlington National in D.C.  The dusty landscape is mostly barren of lush…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/04/04May18-Tombstone-Arizona-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s a town named for what others thought would happen to its founder.  It may sound like a strange way…

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…

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…

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…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/25Jan18-Date-Farming-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Some farmers need expensive, high tech equipment to harvest their crops.  This crop requires a very low-tech method of harvest…but…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/24Jan18-Date-Farming-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)David’s farm is just 2 ½ acres in size…but that does not mean he’s not busy.  In fact, the crop…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/08/28Aug17-Arizona-Pheasant-Grower.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most people don’t go pheasant hunting in Phoenix, AZ.  But if you to come to Molly’s farm, you will perhaps…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/04Sep15-Young-Arizona.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)It’s just a small town of about 500 people. You’ve driven through bunches of them. But you probably have not…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/03Sep15-Good-Enough-Mine-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Not many people set out to own a historic gold and silver mine.  That was the case for Andre, but…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/02Sep15-Good-Enough-Mine-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)When the first miners hit veins of ore here, they knew it was “good enough” to open a profitable mine. …

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/01Sep15-Good-Enough-Mine-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Not many folks have heard of Goose Flats, Arizona.  After all, the most exciting thing in Goose Flats was the…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/10Aug15-Monument-Valley-Bussing.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Some students must ride a bus to school.  But imagine a school district where a student might spend nearly six…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/10Jun15-Old-Tuscon-Studios-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Many movie greats have walked the streets of this fictional town, and you can too.  It’s a story that has…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/0Jun15-Old-Tuscon-Studios-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s tough to find someone skilled in building an adobe home.  So this movie studio called on some experts who…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/08Jun15-Old-Tuscon-Studios-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It the early days of movies, most were shot on lots in Hollywood, but one of the first ventures outside…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/05Jun15-Tombstone-Courthouse-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In the 1880’s, stagecoaches brought dozens of people each day to a boom town called Tombstone.  But it was a…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/04Jun15-Tombstone-Courthouse-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When this man set out to find his fortune he was told he’d need to dig his grave when he…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/13May15-Coronado-National-Monument.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It’s been nearly half a millennium since Coronado’s exploration party marched through what is today’s Arizona. We head to a…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/01Apr15-Titan-Missle-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)In the 1980s there were 54 Titan II missile silos across the U.S.  Those missile carried the largest land-based nuclear…