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The Rendevous Theatre
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/08Nov13-Rendevous-Theatre.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When hunters and trappers would gather once each season, it was often called a rendezvous. In Alaska and the Yukon…
The Oklahoma Land Rush
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/05Nov13-Cherokee-Strip.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine a train chugging south out of Kansas with people jumping from the cars all along its route. The reason…
Getting to FFA Contest
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/04Nov13-Ralph-Drennen.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)An FFA advisor was driving his students to a competition when the bus broke down with twenty eight students and…
Daniel Boone Crosses the Mississippi
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/01Nov13-St-Louis-History-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Daniel Boone is one of the most famous American frontiersmen. But when he crossed the Mississippi River, he went to…
The History of St. Louis
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/31Oct13-St-Louis-History-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)It’s one of the oldest and largest cities on the Mississippi River. Although some may have heard of names like…
The Cyle of a Cesium Atom
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/30Oct13-Atomic-Clock-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)If I said I’d be back in a second, I’d literally be back in 9,192,631,770 cycles of a cesium atom. …
The Most Accurate of Clocks
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/29Oct13-Atomic-Clock-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)For most of human history, the movement of the sun, moon and planets has been used to measure time. But…
Traveling Back Home
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/25Oct13-Fort-Clatsop-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)It was their goal…yet it was only the half way point of the trip…It was the Pacific Ocean that the…
A Suitable Winter Camp
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/24Oct13-Fort-Clatsop-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)After spotting the Pacific Ocean on November 7th, 1805, Lewis and Clark searched for a suitable location for their winter…
The Balloon Bombs from World War II
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/21Oct13-Balloon-Bombs.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It was a foreign attack on the US mainland, yet few have heard the story about Japan’s balloon bomb and…
Alibates Flint
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/07Oct13-Alibates-Flint.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It’s called Alibates flint, and this spot in the panhandle of Texas is the only place in the world where…
Hiding Cash in a Unique Way
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/30Sep13-Waldo-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When Union and Confederate sympathizers threatened to take this banker’s money, he did what any logical person would do–he dressed…
Where’s Waldo?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/27Sep13-Waldo-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A few years ago, you may remember the popular Where’s Waldo books that had kids searching for a man hidden…
Teaching Small Farming Methods That Work
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/24Sep13-Free-Range-Chickens.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When Herman’s son brought home an antiquated animal production book that he happened to find in his high school ag…
The Birthplace of the “Little Giant”
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/12Sep13-Stephen-Douglas-Birthplace.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Abraham Lincoln led the country through the Civil War, but it was this man who defeated him for the Senate…
From Pearl Harbor into World War II
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/09Sep13-Al-Bodenlos.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Al Bodenlos can tell you plenty about building airport runways. Of course, most of those he helped build were on…
Antietam Battle’s Blood Lane
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/03Sep13-Antietam-Battle-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The fields were filled with ears of corn nearing harvest during September, but the kernels would never be shelled. In…
Knowing Someone Else’s Battle Plan
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/02Sep13-Antietam-Battle-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine going into a battle and having the enemy’s plan of attach in your hands. It sounds like it would…
Little House on the Prairie
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/21Aug13-Laura-Ingalls-Wilder.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)It’s hard to imagine it happened by chance–8 books and a 10 year television series–all based on one young pioneer…
Where Horses Wouldn’t Drink
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/20Aug13-Bartlesville-Oklahoma.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)George Keeler noticed his horses wouldn’t drink from this spot on the Caney River. The location is today an important…
