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When Mom Negotiates Your Major League Contract

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/28May15-Rex-Hudler-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Today’s sports stars often have high powered agents who negotiate their contracts.  However, this first round draft pick simply turned…

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Dreams of Playing Professional Sports

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/27May15-Rex-Hudler-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Many young boys have dreams of playing pro sports.  This man had many sports from which to choose which left…

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West of the Mississippi to Illinois

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/26May15-Kaskaskia-2015.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Today we head west of the Mississippi to the State of Illinois.  Yes, west of the Mississippi to the State of…

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A Man of Legend

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/25May15-Harpers-Ferry-2015-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)He is a man of legend…a man whose story may be larger than life…a renegade who history now looks upon…

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One of the Busiest and Important Towns in the Nation

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/22May15-Harpers-Ferry-2015-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Today the place is almost a ghost town.  But over a century ago it was one of the busiest and…

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How a Sixteen Year Old Saved the United States

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/21May15-Wheeling-Revolution-2015-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Where did the American Revolution end?  Why Wheeling, West Virginia of course–when a sixteen year old girl saved the newly…

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A String A Battles on the Western Frontier

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/20May15-Wheeling-Revolution-2015-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It’s a chapter of the American Revolution that few know today–a string of battles fought on what was then the…

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Facing What Seemed to be a Lose-Lose Decision

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/19May15-Wheeling-Legends-2015.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Samuel McCulluck faced what seemed to be a lose-lose decision.  Either surrender to his enemy and face certain death…or plunge…

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The Wedding Capitol of the South

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/18May15-Eureka-Springs-Weddings.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It’s billed as the wedding capital of the south.  The scenic beauty draws couples here and perhaps some legislation initially…

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A Drug Store Soda Fountain Reopens

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/15May15-Ava-Drug-Store-2015-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)When this drug store soda fountain reopened, they began charging 1950s prices. What’s unusual is they’re still using prices from…

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Back from the Past

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/14May15-Ava-Drug-Store-2015-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Once upon a time, just about every town had at least one drug store soda fountain. Today we head to…

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Coronado’s Exploration

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/13May15-Coronado-National-Monument.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It’s been nearly half a millennium since Coronado’s exploration party marched through what is today’s Arizona. We head to a…

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The 70th Anniversary of Victory in Europe

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/12May15-Melvin-Alper-2015-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Melvin Alper fought an entire year in Europe during WW II, but it was the last two months of the…

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Trained to Face the Enemy

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/11May15-Melvin-Alper-2015-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Melvin Alper had trained to face the enemy, but nothing could have prepared him for the scene he would face…

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The Second-Most Visited Cemetery in the United States

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/08May15-Abraham-Lincoln-Oak-Ridge-Cemetery.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Arlington National Cemetery is the most visited cemetery is the nation.  Which one ranks second?  Well a stop here honors…

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One Bookend of the Lincoln Presidency

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/07May15-Abraham-Lincoln-Inauguration.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)On the surface, this old train station in Springfield, Illinois may not seem to be that important.  However, when you…

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A Quick-Draw Shootout

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/06May15-Wild-Bill-Hickok-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)John Sellers says the key to winning an old-west shootout was not quickness, but accuracy.  And when you take into…

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Gambling Over a Pocketwatch

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/05May15-Wild-Bill-Hickok-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In a movie “western” you might see two gunslingers fire their pistols at each other in the town square.  That’s…

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Deadly Tensions

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/04May15-Wild-Bill-Hickok-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the Civil War ended, there were still many unsettled scores of course.  Towns along the border with North and…

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Don’t Break Down Here

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/01May15-Australia-Ayers-Rock-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If your car breaks down you probably call for help, or walk if needed.  Here, if your car breaks down…

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