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“Here By the Owl…”

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/20Oct10-Larry-Case-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)The National FFA Convention is in Indianapolis this week, and this will be the last such event for Dr. Larry…

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Show-Me Energy

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Show-Me-Energy.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:58 — 925.7KB)You may have heard of cellulosic ethanol production, but cellulosic plants can be used to provide a variety of products…..

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Jailhouse Families

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Jailhouse-Families.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)When the Sheriff was away, the prisoners might play; that is, until the Sheriff’s wife got involved…..

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One Pitch

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Carl-Mays-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Carl Mays’ baseball statistics are comparable to many who are in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. However, one…

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Baseball’s Carl Mays

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/09/Carl-Mays-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of Carl Mays. He played on teams with Babe Ruth, had a 15…

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Brayan Pena

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/09/Bryan-Pena-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Bryan Pena has played catcher for the Atlanta Braves and the Kansas City Royals. However, his proudest accomplishment may be…

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Leaving Cuba

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/09/Bryan-Pena-11.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Imagine growing up in a country where you were not allowed to leave its borders; a place where the stories…

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Honoring the Veterans from Vietnam War

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/09/Vietnam-Moving-Wall-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Imagine uprooting one of the most popular monuments in Washington, D.C. and taking it on tour all across the U.S….

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The Moving Vietnam Wall

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/09/Vietnam-Moving-Wall-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Millions have visited the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, DC, but thousands more have been able to share a similar experience…

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The Blue Owl Restaurant

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/09/Blue-Owl-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 942.2KB)The flood of 1993 almost washed away this restaurant, but the levy saved the building and provided the inspiration behind…

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The USS Missouri

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/09/Hawaii-USS-Missouri-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)On September 2nd, 1945 Japan officially surrendered, ending WW II. Douglas MacCarthur addressed the world that day at the event…

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Preparing for a Japanese Surrender

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/09/Hawaii-USS-Missouri-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)If you saw a sailor with a broomstick strapped to his leg ascending and descending stairs aboard a ship, you’d…

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Moving the Official End of World War II

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/09/Hawaii-USS-Missouri-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 936.7KB)September 2nd, 1945. The Japanese were ready to sign documents officially ending World War II. That event took place aboard…

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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…

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The Story Behind Little House on the Prairie

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/08/Laura-Ingalls-Wilder-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 937.3KB)It’s hard to imagine it happened by chance–8 books and a 10 year television series–all based on one young pioneer…

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The Birthplace of Little House on the Prairie

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/08/Laura-Ingalls-Wilder-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 939.6KB)She never set out to become a famous author; she was simply writing down some stories from her childhood. But…

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A 21st Century Soda Fountain with 1950s Prices

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/08/Ava-Drugstore-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 940.2KB)In 1950s America kids might have finished their school day with a trip by the drug store soda fountain where…

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A Drugstore for Ava

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/08/23Aug10-Ava-Drug-Store-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.8MB)Today many cities of a few thousand people or more have pharmacies from one of a number of large national…

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A Collector of Pens and Pencils

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/08/Pencil-Collector-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.8MB)Residents in Trenton, Missouri know that when they need a pen or pencil, there’s one man in town that can…

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The Battle of the Hemp Bales

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/08/24Aug09-Battle-of-the-Hemp-Bales.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.8MB)The bullet holes still scar the inside and outside of this home–a place that was a hospital during a skirmish…

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