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The Path to Gold
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/07/Skagway-Gold-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 940.4KB)For many this trail to gold began in Seattle, but the toughest part of the journey was in the mountains…
North to Alaska!
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/07/Skagway-Gold-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 941.8KB)Just about every gold rush has the same story line: Gold is discovered, a handful of people early to the…
Restoring Masterpieces
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/07/Pool-Table-Restoration-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 941.4KB)To say Joe Newell restores pool tables is like saying Michelangelo was just a painter. The work Joe does is…
Pool Table Restoration
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/07/Pool-Table-Restoration-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 940.2KB)In the middle of farm country, you can find one of the nation’s experts on this game, not to mention…
Harnessing Electricity from the Wind
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/07/Palm-Springs-Wind-Farm-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 942.4KB)For those who visit Palm Springs, California for the first time, they are often most surprised, not by the luxurious…
The History of Wind Farming in California
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/07/Palm-Springs-Wind-Farm-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 939.8KB)If someone tells tall tales we might say they are full of wind. Mr. Oliver’s story was not only full…
An Island with A View
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/07/Alcatraz-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:05 — 978.2KB)This island has some of the best views of San Francisco Bay and the city itself, yet most people didn’t…
An Island Called Alcatraz
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/07/Alcatraz-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 944.5KB)At one time, it was one of the nation’s most important forts, but that’s not how the it’s known today….
Palm Springs Oasis
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/07/Palm-Springs-Oasis.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 944.5KB)If you visit Palm Springs, California, you may be tempted to believe this resort town was carved out of an…
Casa Grande
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/07/Casa-Grande-Phoenix.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 942.9KB)Today skyscrapers in Phoenix tower above the city below. Roll back the clock six hundred years and it was this…
Honoring America’s Heroes
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/07/Arlington-Tomb-Guard-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 956.3KB)Every independence day we celebrate our freedom. This soldier is reminded of the cost of that freedom as he protects…
A Uniform of Perfection
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Arlington-Tomb-Guard-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 940.8KB)Some jobs require you to wear a uniform. Imagine a job where that uniform had to be worn with perfection…where…
Young, Arizona
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Young-Arizona.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 944.9KB)It’s just a small town of about 500 people. You’ve driven through bunches of them. But you probably have not…
Buckeye, Arizona
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Buckeye-Arizona.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 939.8KB)The city of Buckeye, Arizona was a small farming community for much of its life. That’s not so today. The…
Ocmulgee National Monument
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Ocmulgee-National-Monument.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 950.4KB)In this country, the US Capitol is the place the laws are made, but 1000 years ago, it was this…
Rebuiling the Pine Creek Grist Mill
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Pine-Creek-Mill-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 942.4KB)Retirees are often looking for a good cause to which to devote their time. Not many take up grinding flour…
The Pine Creek Mill
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Pine-Creek-Mill-11.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 946.5KB)People near Muscatine have always known of a place called Pine Creek Mill, but for most of the 20th century,…
A Radio Quack in Muscatine
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Muscatine-Cancer-Cure-Quack.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 945.5KB)Today we say hello to out listeners in Muscatine, IA on KWPC. Eighty years ago it was a station called…
The Car with the Hill Gear
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Muscatine-Car-Dealer.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 943.3KB)For many of Marvin Kreeger’s 84 years, he’s operated a car dealership in Muscatine, IA. It’s a successful business, but…
Lewis & Clark’s Montana Obstacle
Although sandbars and other river snags were a danger for Lewis and Clark on the way up the Missouri River, it was this obstacle in…
