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A Home for Big Cats
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/27Aug13-National-Tiger-Sanctuary-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Animal shelters may care for unwanted cats. But when it comes to these kind of cats, it takes a special…
The Pontiac Wagon
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/26Aug13-Pontiac-Oakland-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Today we take a look at a very old Pontiac wagon. No, we’re not talking about a station wagon, but…
A Car Named for Oakland County, Michigan
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/23Aug13-Pontiac-Oakland-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)If I were to tell you that there is a car named for Oakland County, Michigan you’d probably not recognize…
The Walldog Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/22Aug13-Walldogs.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What is a “walldog” and why is there a museum devoted to it? Well, the answer can be found in…
Little House on the Prairie
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/21Aug13-Laura-Ingalls-Wilder.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)It’s hard to imagine it happened by chance–8 books and a 10 year television series–all based on one young pioneer…
Where Horses Wouldn’t Drink
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/20Aug13-Bartlesville-Oklahoma.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)George Keeler noticed his horses wouldn’t drink from this spot on the Caney River. The location is today an important…
The Battle of the Hemp Bales
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/19Aug13-Battle-of-the-Hemp-Bales.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)The bullet holes still scar the inside and outside of this home, a place that was a hospital during a…
Clark Gable and the Cyclorama
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/16Aug13-Atlanta-Cyclorama-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Many people remember Clark Gable in the movie Gone With the Wind. But have you seen him in his role…
The Bankruptcy of a Circus Benefits a City
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/15Aug13-Atlanta-Cyclorama-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Never was the bankruptcy of a circus so fortuitous to a city. Not only did they pick up what would…
What Started as a Campaign Poster…
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/14Aug13-Atlanta-Cyclorama-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)It began life as a campaign poster, although you would have to have one very large wall to ever hang…
Remembering the Civil War in Atlanta
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/13Aug13-Atlanta-Cyclorama-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)It’s been over a century and a half since the beginning of the U.S. Civil War, yet many Americans are…
Vermont’s Only National Park
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/12Aug13-Marsh-Billings-Rockafeller.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ve heard of Yellowstone and Yosemite, but try naming the State of Vermont’s only national park…
Surviving the Romanians and the Nazis
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/09Aug13-Paula-Neuman-Gris-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Paula Neuman Gris, her mother and younger sister had survived life in a forced labor camp at the hands of…
The Holocaust From the Eyes of a Child
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/08Aug13-Paula-Neuman-Gris-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Paula Newman Gris was but six years old, but the decision she was about to make could impact her life…
The Difficult Stories of Surviving the Holocaust
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/07Aug13-Paula-Neuman-Gris-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Paula Neuman Gris was but three years old when her family began to be torn apart by the Holocaust. Although…
Scenic Route 13: Paula Neuman Gris
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/ScenicRoute-013c.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 39:10 — 26.9MB)On this edition of The Scenic Route, Andrew talks to Paula Neuman Gris, who was just three years old when…
A Holocaust Survivor’s Story
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/06Aug13-Paula-Neuman-Gris-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Over the next few days you’ll be hearing from Paula Neuman Gris, a girl of only four years of age…
A Nice Place Called Peculiar
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/05Aug13-Peculiar-Missouri.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Not all of us can live in a normal place. While most of the nation resides in cities that are…
More on Lake Bemidji
Wednesday’s show featured information on the statue of Paul Bunyan and Babe, his trusty blue ox sidekick, on the shores of Lake Bemidji. That’s a…
Paul & Babe on the Shores of Lake Bemidji
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/02Aug13-Paul-Bunyan-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)On the shores of Lake Bemidji stand Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox. The pair have been immortalized in…