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The Unplanned Writer of the Declaration of Independence
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/03Jul17-Independence-Day-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Thomas Jefferson took an important role in writing our Declaration of Independence, but most people don’t know he wasn’t even…
The Mount Washington Auto Race
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/30Jun17-Mt-Washington-Auto-Road-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine running the Daytona 500 on a mountain road with steep grades and no guardrails. The cars may not be…
Hairpin Turns and No Guardrails
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/29Jun17-Mt-Washington-Auto-Road-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a mountain road with hairpin curves, no guardrails and an average grade of 12%. That makes it one of…
The Mountain Road
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/28Jun17-Mt-Washington-Auto-Road-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was big news when this mountain road opened…not because it linked two cities, but rather because it linked tourists…
A Ticket To Get Into Church
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/27Jun17-Selma-Church-5.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Did you ever think you might need a ticket to get into your church? It happens here, but that’s a…
A Bridge In American History
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/26Jun17-Selma-Church-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today you can drive over this bridge and perhaps never know its important place in American history. But today we…
Find the Right To Vote Too Difficult
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/23Jun17-Selma-Church-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many of us take the right to vote for granted. It may be something we do when there is an…
Skipping School for Something Far More Important
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/22Jun17-Selma-Church-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most parents would not wanting their children skipping school. But in this case, there was something far more important –…
One of the Most Famous Churches in the Nation
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/21Jun17-Selma-Church-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It’s one of the most famous churches in the nation – a place that is about more than just a…
Going to Where the Need Is
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/20Jun17-Eleos-Coffee-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)For Rich Casebolt it’s always been about going to where the need is, not waiting for the need to come…
Coffee That Helps Fill a Need
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/19Jun17-Eleos-Coffee-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A lot of people enjoy a good cup of coffee every morning, but here it was hard to find such…
An Unbelievable Story
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/16Jun17-Missouri-State-Prison-5.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It’s a story that will probably make you mad, make you laugh and shake your head AND a story you’ll…
Prison Warden: Balancing Act
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/15Jun17-Missouri-State-Prison-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a job that can be a real balancing act. A place where you have to manage the best and…
The Path of a Heavyweight Champion
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/14Jun17-Missouri-State-Prison-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When this man became heavy weight champion of the world, one of the first men he thanked was a prison…
The Largest Prison in the Nation
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/13Jun17-Missouri-State-Prison-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was once the largest prison in the nation and quite possibly the world. A place housing criminals from a…
Three Decades in a Supermax Prison
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/12Jun17-Missouri-State-Prison-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This week we focus on a man who spent over three decades of his life in a SuperMax state prison…
Brice’s Crossroads
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/09Jun17-Brices-Crossroads-Tupelo.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)His cavalrymen fought like none other…and their maneuvers are still the topic of military studies today. That has many history buffs…
The Patriotic Girl
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/08Jun17-Dublin-Bottling-Works-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)One would think the title of “Patriotic Girl” would be a good thing. However, the general public was appalled by…
A Special Cash Register
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/07Jun17-Dublin-Bottling-Works-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)There is a cash register in Dublin, Texas that many might simply pass off as a unique antique. However, when…
Shoot Me A Waco!
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/06Jun17-Dublin-Bottling-Works-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If someone said, “Shot me a Waco” what would they want from you? It may sound like an odd request…
