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“Bidding” to Host the Scopes Trial

Although the case was heard in 1925, it is still one of the best known today. A trial that one town, in a sense, went…

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The Future of Farm Policy

Turn on any news program and you can find plenty of debate on how Congress should tackle any number of high priorities right now. Perhaps…

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Posted in American Countryside Kansas Kansas City Missouri Podcast

The Farm Foundation

The world will add approximately three billion people in the next forty years. Farmers will be asked to feed those souls with less land, less…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Massachusetts Podcast

Parker Brothers

Park Place and Boardwalk are real places in Atlantic City, NJ. They became famous of course, through the game of Monopoly. The company that made…

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Posted in American Countryside Illinois Podcast

A Fountain Mightier than Skyscrapers

Many city parks have fountains.  But imagine a fountain that could shoot water higher than buildings and drew visitors from across the nation to view…

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Posted in American Countryside Illinois Podcast

To the Courts For a Park

We know names like Montgomery Ward and Marshall Field because of the stores that carried their name.  But most people do not know of the…

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Chicago’s Lake Park

In downtown Chicago there is a wide stretch of land between Michigan Avenue and the Lake Michigan that was never developed for business.  But why…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Podcast Virginia

Cyrus McCormick

For centuries, crops were cut and threshed by hand. That all changed with a young farmer in Virginia. This is the story of a birthday…

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Pearl Harbor Remembered

Although the events of December 7th, 1941 are nearly seven decades old, Americans do remember. They honor those who gave their lives in service to…

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Remembering Pearl Harbor

Hawaii has long been a place where people come to enjoy sun, sand and surf. But it is also a place of deep history; a…

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