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Arbor Day Farm

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/21Nov12-Arbor-Day-Farm-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.1MB)Today corn and soybeans can be used for much more than just a food and feed ingredient for people and…

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Dawson Dolly

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/19Nov12-Dawson-Dolly.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:31 — 1.2MB)Skagway, Alaska has a wealth of history from its gold mining days. One of the personalities who shares that story…

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Promoting Agriculture with a Holiday

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/20Nov12-Arbor-Day-Farm-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)You probably know this gentleman’s son for the salt company he founded that bears his name.  But the father was…

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You Don’t Have to Go to Hawaii to See Hula Girls

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/16Nov12-Hulaville.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.1MB)Most people think you need to go to Hawaii to see hula girls.  Not so.  In fact, it was one…

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A Museum of Salt and Pepper Shakers

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/11/15Nov12-Salt-Pepper-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:33 — 1.2MB)We sometimes bill our program as a slice of Americana…and today’s broadcast certainly fills that theme. We visit with a…

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Conquering the Barrier to Progress

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/14Nov12-Victorville-California.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.1MB)When trains and cars made their way westward to Los Angeles, they encountered an obstacle between San Bernardino and Barstow….

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The Hunter Dawson Mansion

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/13Nov12-Hunter-Dawson.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 2.3MB)In the days just ahead of the Civil War, one prominent young lady in New Madrid, Missouri built a grand…

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A Chocolate Display

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/12Nov12-Union-Station-Chocolate.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:32 — 2.3MB)For 90% of this agricultural product’s history, it was used as a drink.  People certainly still drink it today, but…

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A Place to Get Away From It All

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/11/09Nov12-Catoctin-Mountain-Park-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:33 — 1.2MB)People have long recognized this spot as a way to get away from it all.  During the Roosevelt administration, the…

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Nanibajou Lodge

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/08Nov12-Nanibajou-Lodge-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.1MB)Pick a paint color or new carpet for your home and it will probably fade over time.  However, the paint…

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An Exclusive Club

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/07Nov12-Nanibajou-Lodge-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey were members of this exclusive club, yet they may have never set foot here.  It’s…

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Just One Vote

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/06Nov12-Voting-2012.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:31 — 1.2MB)One of our greatest American freedoms is the power to vote.  You may think one ballot may not mean much,…

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Lincoln on the Other Side of Slavery

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/04Nov12-Lincoln-Log-Cabin-Slavery-Case.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.1MB)Abraham Lincoln is known as the great emancipator, a champion of ending slavery in the United States.  However, in the…

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A Two Story Outhouse

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/02Nov12-Double-Decker-Outhouse.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)Outhouses built before the ear of indoor plumbing are becoming hard to find.  Now try finding a double-decker outhouse.  That…

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A Wisconsin Dairy Farmer and an Alaska Gold Mine

When Dexter Clark decided that the life of a Wisconsin dairy farmer was not for him, he took up a new career that he says…

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What’s Behind the “Spook” Light?

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/10/31Oct12-Spook-Light.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)People like to have answers, and perhaps that’s what makes this phenomena so interesting. There seems to be no explaining…

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A Circus Museum

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/10/30Oct12-Circus-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:31 — 2.3MB)It all began with Albert, Otto, Alfred, Charles, and John. Without their last names, those first names might not mean…

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Joe and Aggie’s Restaurant

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/29Oct12-Joe-and-Aggies-Restaurant.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.1MB)If you own a restaurant that’s been in business for over 70 years, you’re probably doing some very good cooking!…

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The Battle of Island Mound

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/26Oct12-Island-Mound-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)You may have never heard of the Battle of Island Mound.  However, what occurred there in the fall of 1862…

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Former Slaves in the Union Army

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/25Oct12-Island-Mound-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.1MB)Where did the first former slaves take up arms and fight with the Union army?  You may be surprised to…

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