http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Scopes-Trial-2-2010.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)In the days before air conditioning and microphones, this famous trial was held outside the courtroom, where thousands could get…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Scopes-Trial-1-2010.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Although the case was heard in 1925, it is still one of the best known today. A trial that one…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Farm-Foundation-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Turn on any news program and you can find plenty of debate on how Congress should tackle any number of…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Farm-Foundation-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.8KB)The world will add approximately three billion people in the next forty years. Farmers will be asked to feed those…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Parker-Brothers-2010.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Park Place and Boardwalk are real places in Atlantic City, NJ. They became famous of course, through the game of…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Grant-Park-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Many city parks have fountains.  But imagine a fountain that could shoot water higher than buildings and drew visitors from…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Grant-Park-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)We know names like Montgomery Ward and Marshall Field because of the stores that carried their name.  But most people…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Grant-Park-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)In downtown Chicago there is a wide stretch of land between Michigan Avenue and the Lake Michigan that was never…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Cyrus-McCormick.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 952.9KB)For centuries, crops were cut and threshed by hand. That all changed with a young farmer in Virginia. This is…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Pearl-Harbor-Daniel-Martinez-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.8MB)Although the events of December 7th, 1941 are nearly seven decades old, Americans do remember. They honor those who gave…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Pearl-Harbor-Daniel-Martinez.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.8MB)Hawaii has long been a place where people come to enjoy sun, sand and surf. But it is also a…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Pearl-Harbor-Herb-Weathermax.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Before there was a 9/11, there was December 7th. Both are days Americans will never forget. However, there are few…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Kauai-Sugar-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Hawaii is the land of sugar and sugar cane. At least that is what we may believe. However things have…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Kauai-Sugar-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Many of us remember the commercials that sang of C&H pure cane sugar–that’s the one. You may be surprised who…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Kauai-History.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)We’re back in Hawaii this week for a look at some of the islands history, but also for the December…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Cowpens-National-Battlefield-2010-Part-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Imagine being captured during a war and then forced to fight against the army from which you came. What would…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Cowpens-National-Battlefield-2010-Part-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)It was once known as just a giant pasture, but today it’s also the site of an important battle in…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Turkey-Grilling-2010.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Thanksgiving is the time most Americans talk turkey, but Sheerleen Clausen hopes to change that they’ll think of turkey every…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Grassland-Dairy-Butter-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)We all know Santa’s elves must work year round to meet toy demand at year’s end, but who knew this…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Grassland-Dairy-Butter-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Folks in the heart of dairy country know that this fourth generation business touches the diets of almost every American…..