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Six D.C. Sites to Visit During a Government Shutdown

I was just in the nation’s capital gathering audio for our daily broadcasts.  For tourists, the government shutdown means many of the sites they planned…

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Casa Grande

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/07/Casa-Grande-Phoenix.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 942.9KB)Today skyscrapers in Phoenix tower above the city below. Roll back the clock six hundred years and it was this…

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Ocmulgee National Monument

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Ocmulgee-National-Monument.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 950.4KB)In this country, the US Capitol is the place the laws are made, but 1000 years ago, it was this…

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Freedman’s Village and Arlington National Cemetery

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Section-27-Arlington-Cemetery-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 940.2KB)It was a village inside Arlington National Cemetery, a place where people found refuge during the Civil War. Here’s the…

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Sunset Volcano Crater National Monument

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/01/Sunset-Volcano.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 957.1KB)Although it’s been about a millennium since this place rumbled to life, the mountain still speaks of the event that…

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