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Encouragement for a Lifetime of Creative Thinking
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/07/05Aug20-Marceline-Walt-Disney-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1906 this man’s family moved from Chicago to a farm in northern Missouri. That relocation may have made all…
Teaching a Unique Craft to Keep the Skill Alive
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/07/04Aug20-Ryan-Staub-Glass-Blowing-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s estimated that there are fewer than 5000 people still involved in this craft in the U.S. Ryan believes the…
A Hot Summer Job
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/07/03Aug20-Ryan-Staub-Glass-Blowing-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Maybe you think you have a hot summer time job. I doubt you’ll deal with more heat than Ryan. His…
A Unique Store in Maui
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/07/31Jul20-Endangered-Pieces-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some people visit a store just to look at the merchandise. David’s store has a unique policy: you are free…
Endangered Pieces
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/07/30Jul20-Endangered-Pieces-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We’ve heard of endangered species, but the name of David’s store is “Endangered Pieces.” He considers most of what he…
A Century-old Steakhouse
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/07/29Jul20-Peter-Luger-Steakhouse-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Across the East River on the Long Island side of the Brooklyn Bridge there is a place that has changed…
The Best Steak
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/07/28Jul20-Peter-Luger-Steakhouse-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)As long as there have been cattle on the range, there has been debate over who could serve up the…
Two Different Burial Spot Claims
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/07/27Jul20-Sitting-Bull.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He is one of the greatest Indian chiefs ever to lead his tribes in peace and battle. Ironically, two different…
The Lost Colony of Roanoke
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/07/24Jul20-Fort-Raleigh-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s known as the lost colony of Roanoke…a settlement of English that vanished between 1587 and 1590 in what is…
The Voyage That Didn’t Reach Its Destination
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/07/23Jul20-Fort-Raleigh-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1587 three ships set sail from England bound for Chesapeake Bay. The voyage wouldn’t make that destination though…and the…
Fort Raleigh
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/07/22Jul20-Fort-Raleigh-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Over 300 years before the Wright Brothers would make there first flight at nearby Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Europeans landed…
The Oldest Working Theater West of the Allegheny Mountains
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/07/21Jul20-Boonville-Missouri-Thespian-Hall-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Where will you find the oldest working theater west of the Allegheny Mountains? The answer may surprise you and the…
The Dominate Fixture on the Boonville Skyline
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/07/20Jul20-Boonville-Missouri-Thespian-Hall-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It dominates the skyline of Boonville, Missouri. If you’re from Boonville, you might chuckle at that statement, given the buildings…
Consistently Mispelling Your Name
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/07/17Jul20-Boonville-Missouri-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You probably don’t give much thought to signing your name on a check or receipt. It’s something we’ve done thousands…
An Important Point for Settlers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/07/16Jul20-Boonville-Missouri-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we say hello to our listeners on KWRT in Boonville, Missouri. Their town was founded in the early 1800s…
The Nation’s Oldest Fort
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/07/15Jul20-Castillo-de-San-Marcos-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s the oldest fort in the nation’s oldest city, and that means it can tell plenty of stories about many…
A Storied History
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/07/14Jul20-Castillo-de-San-Marcos-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a place that has been attacked by the British, the army of the confederacy and even bands of Pirates….
Conquering the Appalachian Trail – A Physical & Spiritual Journey
https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/1d004633-2e9e-47f1-9b89-a754011a2aa9/87acce9d-6e1d-427e-9030-ab9200e3ded5/a71ace57-7af4-46ac-b4b6-abf7012d0cb1/audio.mp3Podcast: Download ()You’ll soon find, this was about much more that just a very long walk – it was a walk of faith. By the…
The Arkansas Post
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/07/13Jul20-Arkansas-Post.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It is here that the Arkansas, White and Mississippi Rivers meet, and it is here that European and Native American…
Where Superstitions Reside
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/07/09Jul20-Superstitions-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If a black cat crossed my way, I might knock on wood and send bad luck away. But what if…
