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Columbus’ Return in 1493

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/14Oct13-St-Crois-Salt-River-Bay-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Columbus reached the Americas in 1492.  He returned to Spain and put together a much larger party of ships and…

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In Fourteen Hundred and Ninety Two…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/11Oct13-St-Crois-Salt-River-Bay-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may remember that Columbus sailed the ocean blue in fourteen hundred and ninety-two.  But what else do you know…

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1500 Years Before Christopher Columbus

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/10Oct13-St-Crois-Salt-River-Bay-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Today we head to the easternmost point in United States territory.  It’s a place that was inhabited for over 1500…

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Standing Watch

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/09Oct13-San-Juan-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This impressive fort has stood watch over the Atlantic for nearly 400 years.  For some of those sentry’s who scanned…

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Posted in American Revolution Blog National Historic Site National Memorial National Monument National Park Service Tourism Travel Washington, DC

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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A Caribbean Getaway

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/08Oct13-San-Juan-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you are looking for a fun and relatively inexpensive Caribbean getaway, without leaving the U.S., you might consider heading…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Texas

Alibates Flint

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/07Oct13-Alibates-Flint.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It’s called Alibates flint, and this spot in the panhandle of Texas is the only place in the world where…

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Posted in Blog History Scenic Route

Scenic Route – Conversation with an Assassin

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/ScenicRoute-015.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 21:28 — 14.7MB)Pierce Allman was working as a young man at a Dallas radio station in November 1963. He was only feet…

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Posted in American Countryside Presidents Texas

An Unexpected Surprise

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/04Oct13-Pierce-Allman-JFK-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)All this week we’ve heard from Pierce Allman, a Dallas broadcaster who witnessed and reported on the JFK assassination.  The…

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Posted in American Countryside Presidents Texas

First Hand Accounts of the Kennedy Assassination

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/03Oct13-Pierce-Allman-JFK-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)One of the first broadcasters on the air with news of the shooting of President Kennedy was Pierce Allman.  He…

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Posted in American Countryside Presidents Texas

A Reporter on the Biggest Story of All

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/02Oct13-Pierce-Allman-JFK-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Pierce Allman was a broadcaster and manager at WFFA, a radio and television station in Dallas.  In the fall of…

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On the Scene of An Assassination

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/01Oct13-Pierce-Allman-JFK-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1963, Pierce Allman was manager of programming and production for WFAA radio in Dallas, Texas.  When President Kennedy came…

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Posted in Blog History Texas Tourism Travel

Five Texas Hotspots for JFK History Buffs

Today’s Dallas is a busy, growing city. But 50 years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, it remains inextricably linked to a tragic…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Kansas City Missouri

Hiding Cash in a Unique Way

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/30Sep13-Waldo-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When Union and Confederate sympathizers threatened to take this banker’s money, he did what any logical person would do–he dressed…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Civil War Kansas City Missouri

Where’s Waldo?

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/27Sep13-Waldo-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A few years ago, you may remember the popular Where’s Waldo books that had kids searching for a man hidden…

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Posted in American Countryside Kansas

Kafir Corn

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/26Sep13-El-Dorado-Kansas-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)You’ve probably never heard of Kafir Corn.  However, turn back the clock a century and you may have been hearing…

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Posted in American Countryside Kansas

A Change of Fortune

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/25Sep13-El-Dorado-Kansas-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)The first settlers to this region began to farm the land, but drought and grasshoppers made life miserable for most….

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Missouri

Teaching Small Farming Methods That Work

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/24Sep13-Free-Range-Chickens.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When Herman’s son brought home an antiquated animal production book that he happened to find in his high school ag…

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Posted in American Countryside Missouri

Bringing the Pheasant Home

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/23Sep13-Pheasant-Aircraft-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)Dr. Larry Wiggins had always hoped his hometown would be able to bring home a Pheasant airplane.  The aircraft was…

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Posted in American Countryside Missouri

The Pheasant Aircraft Company

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/20Sep13-Pheasant-Aircraft-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)It was a promising young business – the Pheasant Aircraft Company.  In the early days of aviation, a well known…

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