http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/28May18-Vietnam-Wall-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s a simple memorial.  140 black granite panels containing over 58,000 names.  A simple memorial with deep meaning.  A place…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/25May18-Vietnam-Wall-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This Washington D.C. memorial is just a kid when compared to monuments to Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson that are nearby. …

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/24May18-Vietnam-Wall-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)A few years ago I sat on a park bench and visited with a man about a wall he helped…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/23May18-Cannonball-House-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)By 1864 the situation the situation in Macon, Georgia was so dire that men in the hospital were asked to…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/22May18-Cannonball-House-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The city of Macon, Georgia is still a place where you can find elegant plantation mansions…homes of some of the…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/21May18-Atomic-Clock-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 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. …

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/18May18-Atomic-Clock-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)For most of human history…the movement of the sun, moon and planets has been used to measure time.  But even…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/17May18-Atomic-Clock-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s the most accurate clock on earth…and it doesn’t even have hands to tell the time.  It’s an unusual but…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/10May18-John-J-Audobon-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Frankly, he had the makings of a man who would squander his family’s money and accomplish little in life.  But…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/09May18-Lawrence-Welk.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)His music entertained millions of listeners both over the radio and later via TV.  Today we head to his homestead…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/04/02May18-Old-Drum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)We’ve all heard of man’s best friend…but it was this dog that probably gave us the phrase so common today. …

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/04/02May18-Old-Drum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In the courthouse square in Warrensburg, Missouri you will find a statue in tribute to a dog named Old Drum. …

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/04/01May18-New-Market-Virginia-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)There was nothing left to do.  A group of 15-21 year old students would be forced  into battle if there…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/04/30Apr18-New-Market-Virginia-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley is one of the most scenic farming regions in the world.  The fertile valley is flanked by…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/04/27Apr18-Monterey-Aquarium.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s one of the few places where you can see a white shark…safely.  Although these sharks make but a rare…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/04/23Apr18-Prohibition-Party-2018-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Before there was a Got Milk slogan…some dairymen used an amendment to the constitution to help keep their product ahead…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/04/20Apr18-Prohibition-Party-2018-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)You may have thought this political party died when this became legal again back in the 1930s.  You’ll be intrigued…

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…

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…

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…