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Painting a Rock with Purpose
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/03Jul12-Freedom-Rock-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)This boulder was once the marker for a nearby rock quarry. It was also a great spot for graffiti artists…
John Burns at Gettysburg
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/07/Gettysburg-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Imagine hitting the age to retire and then deciding to go volunteer for the army. That is what John Burns…
Remembering Our Prisoners of War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/06/29Jun12-Tom-Crosby-POW.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Today marks the three year anniversary of U.S. army soldier Bowe Burgdahls capture in Afghanistan. It is a story that…
Hundreds of Miles Underground
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/06/28Jun12-Mammoth-Cave-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Stalagmites are cave formations that seemingly rise up from a cave floor. Conversely, stalactites appear to hang from the ceiling….
A Summer Vacation for Centuries
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/06/27Jun12-Mammoth-Cave-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Maybe you are looking forward to a summer vacation. Every year thousands of visitors flock to this national park. However,…
Steep Grades, Sharp Curves and Driving Backwards
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/06/26Jun12-Cool-Springs-Arizona-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)It’s a road that may seem to lead to nowhere. What’s more intriguing is that road has some of the…
Cool Springs, Arizona
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/06/25Jun12-Cool-Springs-Arizona-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Most cars have long ago left this lonely road west of Kingman Arizona. When the cars disappeared, so did many…
Providing Power to the Southwest
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/22Jun12-Kingman-Arizona-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 1.4MB)Before Hoover Dam supplied electricity for this region of the southwest, this old powerhouse generated the electricity. In fact, in…
A Must-See on Route 66
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/21Jun12-Kingman-Arizona-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Dinosaurs, caves and safari parks are the things summer road trips are made of. Perhaps that’s why the combination still…
Meat on the Menu
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/20Jun12-Kelsie-Grimsley-Rabbits-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)If there is meat on the menu, it’s often beef, pork or chicken. Perhaps there’s some lamb or turkey, but…
Tans and Mini Rex
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/06/19Jun12-Kelsie-Grimsley-Rabbits-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Kelsie works in an industry where Tans and Mini Rex are her specialties. Do you know what she has on…
Hagerman Fossil Beds
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/06/18Jun12-Hagerman-Fossil-Beds.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Many ranchers might have horses to round up their herd. But this rancher found the horses on his ranch were…
Unusual Fenceposts
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/06/15Jun12-Joe-Jeffrey-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Every cattleman needs good fences to keep the herd from roaming free. Joe Jeffrey has seen many miles of those…
Finding Ways to Water the Crops
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/14Jun12-Joe-Jeffrey-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)You can plant a crop in the ground, but without water it will do very little. The farmers in this…
Mile Long Bridges Over Dry River Beds
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/13Jun12-Joe-Jeffrey-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)When the first residents of this area began building bridges to cross the nearby river, they found they often needed…
Saint Gaudens National Historic Site
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/12Jun12-St-Gaudens.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)It’s New Hampshire’s only National Park Service site, named after the man who’s work it preserves…..
The Bottle Tree Ranch
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/06/11Jun12-Bottle-Tree.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Elmer Long doesn’t manage a national forest, but it may be the most unique collection of trees in the nation….
Crossing a Bridge Every Two Years
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/08Jun12-Chain-of-Rocks-Bridge-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Every two years the city of St. Louis gets an added route to cross the Mississippi River from Missouri to…
A Bridge With a Curve
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/07Jun12-Chain-of-Rocks-Bridge-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)The development of not only cars, but roads themselves, has improved safety and lessened highway fatalities. But in the 1920s,…
The Location of the National D-Day Memorial
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/06Jun12-D-Day-Memorial-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)It’s been nearly seven decades since allied troops landed at Normandy on D-day. Over four thousand men gave their lives…
