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Posted in American Countryside Hawaii

Reuniting Lost Items

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/29Sep21-Daves-Metal-Detecting-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Have you ever had to go to a lost and found department? These days, those departments are often found online…

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Posted in American Countryside Hawaii

Finding a Needle in the Haystack

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/28Sep21-Daves-Metal-Detecting-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine having a job that is like trying to find the needle in the proverbial haystack. Now imagine that is…

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Posted in American Countryside Ohio

More Than An Ice Cream Cone

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/27Sep21-Youngs-Dairy-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When is an ice cream cone more than just ice cream in a cone?  It is here.  It’s a family…

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Posted in American Countryside Ohio

Young’s Jersey Dairy

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/24Sep21-Youngs-Dairy-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)North of Xenia, Ohio you’ll find a dairy farm with quite a history.  Not only have they been milking cows…

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Posted in American Countryside baseball New York

Hotel of the Hall of Famers

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/23Sep21-Otesage-Hotel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Baseball Hall of Fame has an induction ceremony each year and when that event takes place, the baseball greats…

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Posted in American Countryside baseball New York

Last of the Mohicans

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/22Sep21-Otesage-Hotel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Perhaps you remember the book and the movie, the Last of the Mohicans.  James Fennimore Cooper was the author of…

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Posted in American Countryside Wyoming

Pioneer Days of Ten Sleep, Wyoming

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/21Sep21-Wyoming-Homesteader-Hester-Currence.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you are a resident of Wyoming, a four or five hour drive to get somewhere may not seem too…

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Posted in American Countryside Oregon

A Museum Dedicated to Advertising

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/20Sep21-Museum-of-Advertising.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If it were not for sponsors…daily broadcasts like this…and radio stations themselves for that matter would not be able to…

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Posted in American Countryside Iowa

Amazing Photos from A Historic Event

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/17Sep21-Union-Pacific-Railroad-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This company was created from scratch in the 1860s.  From the start, those founders knew that their work would be…

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Posted in American Countryside Iowa

West from Mile Zero

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/16Sep21-Union-Pacific-Railroad-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This is Mile Zero.  For several years mile zero of this railroad would only take you to the banks or…

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Posted in American Countryside Iowa

Lincoln’s Site To Begin a Railroad

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/15Sep21-Union-Pacific-Railroad-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Abraham Lincoln had an important decision to make.  Where would be the beginning point of a new railroad.  We don’t…

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Posted in Alabama American Countryside

Who Inhabited Russel Cave?

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/14Sep21-Russell-Cave-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today you might get bad teeth from drinking too much soda…ten thousand years ago teeth were a problem as well…but…

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Posted in Alabama American Countryside

The Unusual National Park Cave

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/13Sep21-Russell-Cave-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a cave in the national park system…yet it is far different that well known sites such as Mammoth Cave…

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Posted in American Countryside Nebraska

The Salt King’s Home

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/10Sep21-Arbor-Day-Farm-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)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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Posted in American Countryside Nebraska

A Place With No Trees Was No Place For Him

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/09Sep21-Arbor-Day-Farm-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may enjoy a tree for its beauty, it’s shade, or perhaps the fruit that comes from it.  But when…

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Posted in American Countryside Oregon

Where is the Applegate Trail?

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/08Sep21-Applegate-Trail.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most people have heard of the Oregon Trail…but few have come across the Applegate Trail…yet it was the latter that…

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Posted in American Countryside Illinois

The French Arrive in Illinois

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/07Sep21-Chester-Illinois-History-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Take a drive south of St. Louis on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River and you’ll find some very…

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Posted in American Countryside Illinois

Illinois’ Largest City – A Long Time Ago

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/06Sep21-Chester-Illinois-History-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Illinois’ Largest City – A Long Time Ago Chicago is by far the largest city in the state of Illinois. …

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Posted in American Countryside Illinois

The Guy Who Liked Spinach

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/08/03Sep21-Chester-Illinois-Popeye-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A lot of people don’t like spinach, but this guy did.  In fact he really liked spinach.  And when he…

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Posted in American Countryside Illinois

Drawing Caricatures of Locals

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/08/02Sep21-Chester-Illinois-Popeye-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There was no doubt this young man had talent.  He was operating motion picture as the local opera house in…

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