http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/02/22Feb23-Indio-California-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most people have heard of Chuck Yeager, but most have not heard of his good friend Jackie…a pilot who set…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/02/21Feb23-Indio-California-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the rails came through this stretch of dry wilderness, the only people living here were the Cahuilla Indians.  This…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/11/14Nov22-Hulaville.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most people think you need to go to Hawaii to see hula girls.  Not so.  In fact, it was one…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/07/22Jul22-Sy-Brenner-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Life inside a POW camp in Germany was a struggle for survival.  Yet inside the barbed wire and the horrific…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/07/21Jul22-Sy-Brenner-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sy Brenner was an American soldier captured by the Germans and held in a POW camp.  He was fearful his…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/07/20Jul22-Sy-Brenner-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sy Brenner served as a medic during World War II.  However, he was about to be asked to serve in…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/07/19Jul22-Sy-Brenner-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)November 29th, 1944 was the night Sy Brenner was killed in action in southern France.  At least that’s what many…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/17Jun22-Elmer-Long-Bottle-Tree.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Elmer Long doesn’t manage a national forest, but it may be the most unique collection of trees in the nation. …

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/30May22-Santa-Monica-Pier-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Dan Rice has traveled the length of Route 66 over two dozen times.  It might surprise people that his original…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/27May22-Santa-Monica-Pier-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today this sign on Santa Monica Pier attracts a steady stream of travelers who pose by it.  Interestingly, it’s a…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/26May22-Santa-Monica-Pier-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1926 Route 66 ended at the corner of 7th and Broadway in downtown Los Angles, California.  Today, most people…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/22Apr22-Redwood-National-Park-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Normally the taller a tree grows, the deeper its roots sink into the ground.  But these trees seem to do…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/21Apr22-Redwood-National-Park-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s one of the smallest seeds – in fact, it’s just about the size of a tomato seed.  However, what…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/05Oct21-Artichoke-Lady-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some people turn up their nose at brussels sprouts.  Where do artichokes fare in comparison?  We head to a valley…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/04Oct21-Artichoke-Lady-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes it’s hard to get kids to eat their vegetables.  Now imagine the vegetable looks like a hand grenade and…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/02/09Mar21-Tom-Crosby-POW-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)American troops had finally made it to Manilla and were attempting to free POWs like Tom Crosby.  Just when things…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/02/04Mar21-Tom-Crosby-POW-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Life was good for eight year old Tom Crosby, an American living in Manilla in 1941.  Then December 7th came,…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/08/24Aug20-Joshua-Tree-National-Park-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)To some people a rock is just a rock, but to those who climb them, this place is special.  It…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/08/21Aug20-Joshua-Tree-National-Park-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Summer heat and a lack of water have always made this a difficult place to make a living…yet evidence shows…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/08/20Aug20-Joshua-Tree-National-Park-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Although it is called a tree by name, it certainly doesn’t look anything like an oak, elm or maple.  In…