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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/19Aug15-Knute-Rockne-Memorial-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)It’s been over eighty years since Knute Rockne walked the football sidelines at Notre Dame.  However, phrases like “Win one…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/18Aug15-Knute-Rockne-Memorial-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was an unlikely spot for a national story – the Flint Hills of Kansas in the early 1930s.  A…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/17Aug15-Royal-Gorge-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)For over seven decades, this bridge was a record setter, the highest suspension bridge in the world.  It continues to…

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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/13Aug15-Great-Lakes-Shipwreck-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Perhaps it’s fitting that you have to go a bit out of the way to find the Great Lakes Shipwreck…

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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/11Aug15-Great-Lakes-Shipwreck-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)On a road map, it’s simply listed as “Whitefish Point.”  That place name has little significance to most, but for…

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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/05Aug15-Cottonwood-Falls-Courthouse-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It only cost $40,000 to build this architectural masterpiece.  Of course, that was about 150 years ago, but the small…

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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/31Jul15-Ed-Davidson-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most prison camps wouldn’t want their detainees digging tunnels to freedom. But at Ed’s camp, it was a way to…

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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/29Jul15-Ed-Davidson-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Ed Davidson got to cross the Atlantic on the Queen Mary…but his trip wasn’t for pleasure, for he made that…

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