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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/18Jan17-Napa-Valley-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)California’s Napa Valley has long been associated with wine.  However, wine is newcomer when compared to all this area grows…

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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/16Jan17-Napa-Valley-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ve probably never heard of a man named Nathan Combs.  However, you have heard of the place he helped create. …

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/13Jan17-Fort-Union-2017.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)It was the site of a vast trading network on the northern plains.  It’s history spanned forty years and today,…

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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/11Jan17-Ryman-Auditorium-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was one of the largest venues in the nation when it was constructed – Union Gospel Tabernacle.  But just…

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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/09Jan17-Ryman-Auditorium-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Tom was quite the entrepreneur.  He built a great steamboat line and became quite wealthy.  But he was also a…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/06Jan17-Knife-River-Indian-Village.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Two centuries ago, these villages contained more people than the city of St. Louis…yet only a handful of Europeans and…

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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/03Jan17-Flip-This-Town-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a common story in many small towns and big cities across America.  Many places have downtown buildings that are…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/02Jan17-Flip-This-Town-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)You’ve heard of people flipping homes for a living.  For many years, that’s how Ron Drake made part of his…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/30Dec16-Best-of-2016-Battle-of-New-Orleans.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)What you know about this battle probably comes from a song you’ve heard.  So today we’ll “Take a little trip…

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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/28Dec16-Best-of-2016-Idaho-National-Laboratory.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)It was an attention getter.  A statement that showed the world the United States was serious about using nuclear energy…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/27Dec16-Best-of-2016-Boundary-Oak-Distillary.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:57 — 2.0MB)Sometimes people will use secret codes to keep vital information from slipping into the wrong hands.  General Patton used such…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/26Dec16-Best-of-2016-Peoria-Penicillin.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:57 — 2.0MB)You could call it the “moldy cantaloupe that saved the world.”  It was an unlikely find, but one that indeed…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/23Dec16-Bethlehem-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Bible tells us that after Jesus’ birth, wise men from the east came to honor the child.   Interestingly, those…