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The Kansas Oil Boom
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/04Dec13-Kansas-Oil-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.7MB)You may not think of this state as a top producing oil area. However, turn back the clock about a…
The Denver Sleigh Works
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/03Dec13-Denver-Sleigh-Works.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Santa needs a sleigh to make deliveries around the world. This man makes sure he will never run out of…
A Store For the Holidays
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/02Dec13-Holiday-Christmas-Store.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If Santa Claus needed a place to buy all of his decorations, this would be it. This big business in…
Grilling the Turkey
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/29Nov13-Turkey-Grilling.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Thanksgiving is the time most Americans talk turkey, but Sheerleen Clausen hopes to change that they’ll think of turkey every…
Your Face on the Side of a Semi
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/28Nov13-Fred-Mares-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Each of the communities that we call home can claim outstanding individuals who go the extra mile when it comes…
A Helpful Smile In Every Aisle
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/27Nov13-Fred-Mares-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Image a man who speaks over ten languages, can play multiple musical instruments and serenade customers with his wonderful voice….
Inside the Brown Hotel
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/26Nov13-Brown-Hotel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)It’s not everyday you check into a hotel and catch a fish in the lobby. It’s just one of the…
A Motivation to Start Your Own Business
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/25Nov13-Brown-Hotel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)James Graham Brown never forgot the day he was refused service at a Louisville business. The event served as a…
Inside Trauma Room One at Parkland Hospital
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/22Nov13-JFK-Nurse-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Trauma Room One at Parkland Hospital is a place Phyllis Hall knew well. As a nurse, she had worked in…
A Part of Presidential History in Dallas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/21Nov13-JFK-Nurse-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)Phyllis Hall worked in the emergency room and clinics of Dallas’ Parkland Hospital for eight years. No day could compare…
Scenic Route: Inside the ER After the JFK Assassination
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/ScenicRoute-016.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 17:07 — 15.7MB)Phyllis Hall was a nurse at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, and she was on duty on November 22, 1963, the…
A Dallas Emergency Room Nurse
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/20Nov13-JFK-Nurse-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)For the next few features we’ll be visiting with Phyllis Hall, nurse at Dallas’ Parkland Hospital. She was in the…
The 150th Annivesary of the Gettysburg Address
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/19Nov13-Gettysburg-150.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Just four months after the Battle of Gettysburg, over 50,000 people came to that town for the dedication of a…
The Saugus Iron Works
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/18Nov13-Saugus-Iron-Works.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It is a factory that began operation over a century before England’s colonies became the United State of America. We…
Levee High Pie
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/Blue-Owl-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The flood of 1993 almost washed away this restaurant. The levee saved the building and provided the inspiration behind their…
Baking At the Blue Owl
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/Blue-Owl-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)1983 was the best of times and worst of times for Mary. She was going through a divorce, but it’s…
The Decatur House
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/13Nov13-Decatur-House.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)This was the first home, other than the White House, built on Lafayette Square. It is a place rich with…
The Survivor Tree
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/12Nov13-Survivor-Tree.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)When the twin towers collapsed on September 11th, 2001, emergency responders raced to the scene to save lives. Interestingly, there…
Mystic Seaport
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/11Nov13-Mystic-Seaport-2013.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Long before the birth of this nation, this seaport was building the ships that would create a stream of commerce…
The Rendevous Theatre
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/08Nov13-Rendevous-Theatre.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When hunters and trappers would gather once each season, it was often called a rendezvous. In Alaska and the Yukon…
