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President Grant’s Mobile Home

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/19Feb24-Grant-Boyhood-Home.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Presidential birthplaces are visited by many tourists each year.  But no home may have quite the story as this small…

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Avoiding Locust Trees and Other Obstacles

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/12Jul23-Wright-Brothers-Dayton-Ohio-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Wright Brothers made their first flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.  However, it was the farmers around Dayton that…

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The Wright Brothers in Dayton, Ohio

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/11Jul23-Wright-Brothers-Dayton-Ohio-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Although Kitty Hawk, North Carolina received most of the attention regarding the Wright Brothers first flight, it was this Ohio…

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Pop Top Soda and More!

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/11/15Nov21-Dayton-Carillon-Historical-Park.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you’re over 40 years old, you probably remember aluminum cans that had the old pull off tabs.  Today of…

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Wright Flyer III

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/11/12Nov21-Wright-Brothers-Flyer.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Wright Brothers first took flight in 1903 and that plane is in the Smithsonian.  But the brothers said there…

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More Than An Ice Cream Cone

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/27Sep21-Youngs-Dairy-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When is an ice cream cone more than just ice cream in a cone?  It is here.  It’s a family…

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Young’s Jersey Dairy

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/24Sep21-Youngs-Dairy-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)North of Xenia, Ohio you’ll find a dairy farm with quite a history.  Not only have they been milking cows…

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Cemeteries without Headstones

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/30Mar21-Hopewell-Mounds-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Cemeteries usually have headstones to make the spot of loved ones who have passed.  But this civilization used something far…

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Long Before Columbus…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/29Mar21-Hopewell-Mounds-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)History on this continent is young when compared to places like Europe…but that mentality is to forget about the centuries…

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The Non-Electric Shopping Mall

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/26Mar21-Lehmans-Amish-Store-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you lived without electricity…either by choice or simply because of the location you lived…where would you go to find…

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A Successful Business That’s Behind the Times

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/25Mar21-Lehmans-Amish-Store-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you’re going to do well in business you have to stay up with the times…but for jay Lehman…doing the…

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The Coonskin Library

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/10/21Oct19-Coonskin-Library.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s called the Coonskin Library, a private library established on the American frontier.  But few people today would know the…

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The American Whistle Company

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/05/23May19-American-Whistle-Company.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)You might hear it because someone is in danger, or you could hear it when you’ve done something wrong. Whatever…

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The Jesse Owens Story

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/10/12Oct18-Jesse-Owens-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)He won four gold medals in track and field at the 1936 Olympics, a feat that would not be duplicated…

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From Sharecropper to Legend

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/10/11Oct18-Jesse-Owens-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He was born into a family of sharecroppers in northern Alabama.  His time on this farm lasted until the age…

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Tabloid Reporting Over a Century Ago

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/07/12Jul18-Annie-Oakley-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If the tabloids report it, is the story really true?  Over a century ago, many American believed this star had…

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Shooting Apples Off Heads

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/07/11Jul18-Annie-Oakley-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Perhaps you’ve heard of someone shooting an apple off of someone’s head or hitting a cigarette in someone’s mouth.  It…

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Amazing and Totally Unexpected Skills

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/07/10Jul18-Annie-Oakley-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Her skills were amazing and totally unexpected.  A young lady from the frontier was outshooting men of all ages and…

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Greenville, Ohio’s Most Popular Person

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/07/09Jul18-Annie-Oakley-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)She is arguably the most famous person to grow up in Greenville, Ohio.  You’ve most likely heard of her and…

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A Meeting of Notables

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/03/29Mar18-Treaty-of-Greenville-Ohio-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The years was 1795 and on what was then the western frontier of the United States, a meeting of some…

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