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One of the Nation’s Most Famous Writers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/03/05Apr18-Edgar-Allen-Poe-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)He is one of the nation’s most famous writers and although he bounced from city to city, it was here…
Working Together at Pipestone
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/03/26Mar18-Pipestone.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This place is so important in native American culture, that even when warring tribes arrived here, they put down their…
More Than Two Blocks of Murals
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/03/16Mar17-Cape-Girardeau-River-Mural-2018.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Michelangelo had a very large canvass when he began work on the Sistine chapel. Make a trip to this river…
Where Civil War Engineers Ran Out of Names
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/03/15Mar17-Cape-Girardeau-Civil-War-2018.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Civil War engineers were simply running out of names…but that doesn’t mean the forts here were not important. It’s a…
Chicago’s Old City Library
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/03/05Mar18-Old-Chicago-Library.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Chicago’s Michigan Avenue has long been a place noted for fine shops, hotels and attractions. Many people though, pass by…
Chicago’s Cultural Center on Michigan Avenue
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/02/02Mar18-Chicago-Cultural-Center.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Chicago’s Michigan Avenue has long been a place noted for fine shops, hotels and attractions. Many people though, pass by…
A Japanese Teenager’s Journey to the US
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/02/01Mar18-Barbara-Law-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)As a Japanese teenager, Barbara was taught to defend herself from American soldiers arriving in her country. She ended up…
Living In Japan When World War II Ended
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/02/28Feb18-Barbara-Law-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)This week we are featuring Barbara Law who recently passed away. She was a teenager living in Japan when World…
A Look Back At The Story of Barbara Law
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/02/27Feb18-Barbara-Law-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)This past week Barbara Law of King City, Missouri passed away at the age of 87. I had the honor…
The Oasis in the Desert
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/26Jan18-Palm-Springs-Tour.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Before Palm Springs was a resort town–before Palm Springs was really even a town, for that matter; movie stars began…
Crops For Those Who Aren’t Afraid of Heights
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…
A Unique Farm
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…
An Astronaut Program For Women
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/23Jan18-Mercury-Women-Program-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)In the early 1980s, the United States put its first woman into space, a full two decades after space travel…
Training Another Gender for Outer Space
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/22Jan18-Mercury-Women-Program-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)The first man in space, the first man to orbit the earth, the first man to walk on the moon…you…
The Worst Blizzard You Ever Experienced
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/19Jan18-Mt-Washington-Weather-Observatory-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)If you are ever tempted to think the winter weather where you live is bad…just wait until you hear Brian…
Extreme Conditions At the Top of the Mountain
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/18Jan18-Mt-Washington-Weather-Observatory-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)The warmest temperature ever recorded here was 72 degrees. It once got down to 47 below. Brian Clark’s job is…
Clear For 130 Miles
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/17Jan18-Mt-Washington-Weather-Observatory-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)This lookout sees an average of 237 days of fog each year…but on a clear day you can see up…
Pawnee Bill
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/12/12Jan18-Pawnee-Bill-2018-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)It may have seemed this famous western showman had married the wrong woman. After all, his bride was a city…
The Cowboy Named Gordon Lillie
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/12/11Jan18-Pawnee-Bill-2018-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)Many of us had childhood heroes, and for Gordon it was the famous showman Buffalo Bill. What he might never…
The Indirect Transformation of a Florida Neighborhood
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/12/08Jan18-Ybor-City-Florida-2018-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)When U.S. soldiers crossed the Atlantic to fight in World War I, they not only preserved freedom, they also discovered…
