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Keokuk, Iowa–Major League Baseball Town?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/04Jun18-Bud-Fowler-Keokuk-Baseball-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)You probably don’t think of Keokuk, Iowa as a town that could support a Major League Baseball team. But that…
The Name and the Story Behind An Indiana Couple
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/01Jun18-Fountain-City-IN-Levi-Coffin-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Many fourth graders are required to study their states history. If you live in Indiana you probably studied this name. …
“Fair Trade” During the Civil War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/31May18-Fountain-City-IN-Levi-Coffin-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Perhaps you’ve heard of “fair trade” products you can purchase in this country that guarantee the producers in developing nations…
Carrying On Without Saying A Word
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/30May18-Fountain-City-IN-Levi-Coffin-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The work of the Underground Railroad needed to be secretive of course. But it seems many in this town knew…
The Secretive Work of the Couple From Fountain City
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/29May18-Fountain-City-IN-Levi-Coffin-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In Fountain City, Indiana you will find an older brick home with quite a story. If you step inside you’ll…
A Museum for Things Left Behind
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/28May18-Vietnam-Wall-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s a simple memorial. 140 black granite panels containing over 58,000 names. A simple memorial with deep meaning. A place…
Where Thousands Come to Pay Respect
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/25May18-Vietnam-Wall-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This Washington D.C. memorial is just a kid when compared to monuments to Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson that are nearby. …
Not “Just” a Wall
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/24May18-Vietnam-Wall-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)A few years ago I sat on a park bench and visited with a man about a wall he helped…
Leaving Your Hospital Bed to Fight
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/23May18-Cannonball-House-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)By 1864 the situation the situation in Macon, Georgia was so dire that men in the hospital were asked to…
The Cannonball House
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/22May18-Cannonball-House-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The city of Macon, Georgia is still a place where you can find elegant plantation mansions…homes of some of the…
The Importance of a Cesium Atom
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/21May18-Atomic-Clock-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If I said I’d be back in a second…I’d literally be back in 9,192, 631,770 cycles of a cesium atom. …
Measuring Time
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/18May18-Atomic-Clock-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)For most of human history…the movement of the sun, moon and planets has been used to measure time. But even…
The Most Accurate Clock on Earth
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/17May18-Atomic-Clock-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s the most accurate clock on earth…and it doesn’t even have hands to tell the time. It’s an unusual but…
A Motel With a Radio in Every Room
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/16May18-Boots-Court-Motel-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This motel advertisers a “radio in every room.” Perhaps it doesn’t sound too elegant, but it’s doing a nice business…
Movie Stars on Wide-Open Roads
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/15May18-Boots-Court-Motel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There was a time when the movie stars of the day did not fly to their destination, but rather drove…
Searching for the Crossroads of the Nation
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/14May18-Boots-Court-Motel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)He was a man in search of the crossroads of the nation. For of course, that would be the best…
A Book That Took 13 Years to Complete
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/11May18-John-J-Audobon-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It was a massive book, both in cost and sheer size…yet it’s pages are some of the most recognized yet…
Drawing Birds
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/10May18-John-J-Audobon-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Frankly, he had the makings of a man who would squander his family’s money and accomplish little in life. But…
The Homestead of Lawrence Welk
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/09May18-Lawrence-Welk.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)His music entertained millions of listeners both over the radio and later via TV. Today we head to his homestead…
A Cemetery With a Guidebook
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/08May18-Tombstone-Arizona-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Most cemeteries don’t offer a guidebook with brief stories of those you’ll find buried there, but this one does. And…
