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Posted in American Countryside Arizona Podcast

The San Marcos Hotel and Resort

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/San-Marcos-Resort.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Phoenix, Arizona has plenty of golf resorts that attract thousands of visitors, but ask someone who established the first course…

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Posted in American Countryside Arizona FFA Podcast

The Karate Kid

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/FFA-Karate-Kid-Keillie-Summey1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)It’s not often you get to visit with someone who’s won multiple national titles in anything.  Now add in the…

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Posted in American Countryside Nebraska Podcast

Rock Creek Station

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Rock-Creek-Station-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)Mention the name Wild Bill Hickok and many people have images of a western lawman not afraid to enter a…

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Posted in American Countryside Nebraska Podcast

Ruts That Are Never Filled

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Rock-Creek-Station-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)If someone cuts ruts down a muddy dirt trail, someone else will probably need to come and fill them in…

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Posted in Miscellaneous

Reenactment of the Civil War

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Civil-War-Reenactment.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)Perhaps you’ve been hearing quite a bit about the Civil War. For the next four years, many sites will hosts…

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Posted in American Countryside Podcast

The Flying Priest of Bolivia

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Flying-Priest-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Buying a plane seemed like a good idea. Then again, Mike Gould didn’t know how to fly. It turned out…

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Posted in American Countryside Podcast

To Bolivia and Back

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/22Jul11-Flying-Priest-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)It’s been nearly sixty years since Mike Gould was assigned to work in Bolivia. He’s spent almost all of those…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Virginia

Manassas Sesquicentennial

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Manassas-2011.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)As July 21st, 1861 dawned, residents of northern Virginia could not fathom what was about to take place. It’s been…

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Posted in American Countryside Oklahoma Podcast

A New City Overnight

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Oklahoma-City-Land-Run-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)If a city grows quickly, we might say it sprang up overnight.  This state capital literally sprang into existence in…

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Posted in American Countryside Oklahoma Podcast

Land on the Run

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Oklahoma-City-Land-Run-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)If you found a great deal on a house or a piece of land, we might say that we ran…

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Posted in American Countryside Oklahoma Podcast

Stockyards City, Oklahoma

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Oklahoma-City-Cattlemens-Steakhouse-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)You might go to a fancy clothing store to get measured for a suit.  But where do you go to…

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Posted in American Countryside Oklahoma Podcast

The Cattlemen’s Cafe

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Oklahoma-City-Cattlemens-Steakhouse-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Why are nurses on the night shift eating breakfast in the Oklahoma City Stockyards?  Here’s a place popular for breakfast…

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Posted in American Countryside Oklahoma Podcast

The Banjo Museum

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Banjo-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)When I was in fifth grade I wanted to play the trumpet.  My parents scratched together $300 for a used…

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Posted in American Countryside Oklahoma Podcast

Duelling Banjos

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Banjo-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)You’ve heard of dueling banjos–now multiply it times several hundred.  It’s a unique convention of sights and sounds that arrives…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Utah

Kennecott Copper Mine

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/12Jul11-Kennecott-Copper-Mine.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)It’s the largest open pit mine in the world, with a hole so deep it swallowed entire towns.  The mine…

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Posted in American Countryside Missouri Podcast Saint Joseph

Jowler Creek Winery

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Jowler-Creek-Winery-21.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Most crops in the Midwest are planted in the spring and harvested in the fall.  The farmer’s investment is mostly…

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Posted in American Countryside Missouri Podcast Saint Joseph

Growing Grapes

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Jowler-Creek-Winery-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)What led this beef and row crop farmer to begin growing grapes?  The answer is a good one, but it…

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Posted in American Countryside New York Podcast

A Reward for Remaining Loyal to the King

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Philipse-Manor-31.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)When America won her independence, there were thousands of men and women who remained loyal to England during the war….

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Posted in American Countryside New York Podcast

Signing the Declaration of Dependence

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Philipse-Manor-21.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)Fifty-six men signed the Declaration of Independence in July of 1776, but not everyone was pleased with the patriotic document….

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Posted in American Countryside New York Podcast

A Woman Ship’s Captain of the 1600’s

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Philipse-Manor-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)It’s rare to find a young married lady commanding a ship, crisscrossing the Atlantic multiple times each year. Now imagine…

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