Category: Hawaii
On The Banks of Pearl Harbor
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/09Dec14-Pearl-Harbor-Jimmy-Lee.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Jimmy Lee’s family lived on the banks of Pearl Harbor. As a kid, one of his jobs was feeding their…
A Court-Martial and Pearl Harbor
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/12/Pearl-Harbor-Sterling-Cale-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Sterling Cale acted with bravery and courage during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Why, then, was he going to be…
In the Waters at Pearl Harbor
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/12/Pearl-Harbor-Sterling-Cale-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)He was an eyewitness to history, a man who was in the waters of Pearl Harbor during and after the…
A Day That Will Live in Infamy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/12/Pearl-Harbor-Sterling-Cale-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)He was a farm boy from Illinois who thought he’d received the prime spot for anyone to serve in the…
Pearl Harbor Remembered
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Pearl-Harbor-Daniel-Martinez-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.8MB)Although the events of December 7th, 1941 are nearly seven decades old, Americans do remember. They honor those who gave…
Remembering Pearl Harbor
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Pearl-Harbor-Daniel-Martinez.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.8MB)Hawaii has long been a place where people come to enjoy sun, sand and surf. But it is also a…
Days Americans Never Forget
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Pearl-Harbor-Herb-Weathermax.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Before there was a 9/11, there was December 7th. Both are days Americans will never forget. However, there are few…
What’s Left of Hawaii’s Sugar Industry?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Kauai-Sugar-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Hawaii is the land of sugar and sugar cane. At least that is what we may believe. However things have…
The History of Sugar in Hawaii
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Kauai-Sugar-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Many of us remember the commercials that sang of C&H pure cane sugar–that’s the one. You may be surprised who…
The History of Kauai, Hawaii
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Kauai-History.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)We’re back in Hawaii this week for a look at some of the islands history, but also for the December…
An Iowa Class Battleship
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/09/Hawaii-USS-Missouri-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)For the next few days we’ll take a look at an event that took place 65 years ago this week–the…
Hawaii’s Kokee State Park
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/08/Hawaii-Kakee-State-Park.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Most people head to Hawaii for the balmy weather, so it’s quite unexpected to find this place has beautiful ocean…
A Job with a Beautiful View
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/08/Hawaii-Kauai-Marriott.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.4KB)Pristine beaches, huge swimming pools, beautiful fish ponds all surround the place where Sally goes to work. We tag along…
A Hawaiin Luau
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/08/Hawaii-Laua.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 937.8KB)When visiting the Hawaiian Islands, there’s no better experience than a traditional Hawaiian luau–except that’s not what you’ll get here….
Swimming in a Sea of Burning Oil
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/10/Pearl-Harbor-Survivor-Stu-Hedley-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.9MB)Stu Hedley may have believed that once he left his ship, the West Virginia, in Pearl Harbor on the morning…
Surviving Pearl Harbor: A First Hand Account
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/10/Pearl-Harbor-Survivor-Stu-Hedley.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.8MB)We’ve heard of the events of December 7, 1941 at Pearl Harbor. Today, we meet one of the men who…
From Pearl Harbor into World War II
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/09/Al-Bodenlos-Pearl-Harbor-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Al Bodenlos can tell you plenty about building airport runways. Of course, most of those he helped build were on…
A Witness to the Beginning of World War II
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/09/Al-Bodenlos-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Al Bodenlos was in Honolulu on the morning of December 7, 1941. Like many people there, he didn’t immediately realize…
An Eyewitness Account of Pearl Harbor
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/09/Al-Bodenlos-Pearl-Harbor-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 952.2KB)Al was about to witness the most realistic military training exercise he had ever seen. As he got closer to…
