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The Ontonagan Boulder
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/08/16Aug18-Calument-Copper-Mines-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s called the Ontonagan Boulder – a rock of pure copper that reports said was larger than a canoe. Native…
As Easy As Eating Pie
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/08/15Aug18-Calument-Copper-Mines-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There’s an old cliché that says if something is not hard to do, “It’s as easy as pie.” I guess…
Who Was Vice President of the Confederacy?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/08/14Aug18-AH-Stephens.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ve heard of Jefferson Davis, president of the confederacy. But who was his vice president?
The Confederacy on the Move
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/08/13Aug18-Jefferson-Davis-Capture-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)As Union troops advanced on Richmond, Virginia, the president of the Confederacy was on the move. The story of the…
Trying to Stay a Step Ahead of the Union Troops
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/08/10Aug18-Jefferson-Davis-Capture-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He was the president of the confederacy and in the Spring of 1865, he and members of his cabinet were…
The First Emancipation Proclomation
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/08/09Aug18-Fort-Pulaski-2018.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was the first emancipation proclamation of the Civil War and it wasn’t issued by Lincoln. We’ll go to the…
The Wilbur Wright Birthplace
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/08/08Aug18-Wilbur-Wright-Birthplace-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)At the Wilbur Wright Birthplace in Indiana you’ll find a nearly exact replica of the first plane the famous brothers…
A Gift That Planted a Seed
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/08/07Aug18-Wilbur-Wright-Birthplace-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was not a big or fancy gift. In fact, most kids today would play with it for a few…
Punishment in the Closet that Changed Lives
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/08/06Aug18-Wilbur-Wright-Birthplace-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)As a kid, what was your punishment for not doing what you were told? These boys were sent to the…
The Story of a Cup of Coffee (and much more…)
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/07/03Aug18-Gettysburg-Christian-Commission-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today someone might drive through Starbucks to get a cup of coffee. During the Civil War…this group instead brought the…
The Organization That Grew to the YMCA
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/07/02Aug18-Gettysburg-Christian-Commission-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When a soldier heads to battle, there are many organizations that volunteer their services to help he or she and…
The Adamantine Guard
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/07/01Aug18-Adamantine-Guard.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It was called the Adamantine Guard…a military unit formed in one Pennsylvania County with over a century of service to…
Inside the Dickson Mounds
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/07/31Jul18-Dixon-Mounds-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Long before there were cities like New York and Chicago…these giant cities were scattered across the nation. Today we try…
An Early City of a Thousand Years Ago
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/07/30Jul18-Dixon-Mounds-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Havana, Illinois is located on the Illinois River but is far from the first city that’s stood here. In fact,…
The Little Red House in Western Kansas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/07/27Jul18-Santa-Fe-Trail-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The first building in this town didn’t begin its life here. In fact i’s route to this city is a…
The Superhighway of the 1800s
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/07/26Jul18-Santa-Fe-Trail-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was a superhighway of the 1800s…a thruway carrying people and cargo from two ends of the country. It may…
A Steel Post and a Glow Plug
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/07/25Jul18-Fort-Leonardwood-History-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What’s a steel fence post and a diesel glow plug have to do with saving lives? It was just one…
Going to a Museum to Prepare for the Future
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/07/24Jul18-Fort-Leonardwood-History-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It may seem odd to take young men and women to a museum to help prepare them for the future. …
A Place Carved in the Woods
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/07/23Jul18-Fort-Leonardwood-History-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a place carved from the woods – a place created from the necessities of World War II. Yet, it…
Unearthing the Bones of an Unknown Animal
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/07/20Jul18-Mastadon-Park-2018.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine you unearthed the bones of an animal and had little idea of what you found. Now imagine making up…
