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Honoring America’s Heroes
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/04Jul14-Tomb-Guard.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Every independence day we celebrate our freedom. This soldier is reminded of the cost of that freedom as he protects…
A Chaplain in the Civil War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/03Jul14-Gettysburg-Chaplain-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In the fall of 1861, Father William Corby, a Notre Dame educated priest, not yet 30 years old, joined the…
A Small Rock Marking a Big Impact
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/02Jul14-Gettysburg-Chaplain-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are hundreds of monuments here at Gettysburg National Battlefield. Many times it’s difficult to know the story behind each…
The Role of Chaplains in the Civil War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/01Jul14-Gettysburg-Chaplain-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)If you are a student of the Civil War, you probably know some of the important names like Generals Lee…
The Importance of Faith in Battle
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/30Jun14-Gettysburg-Chaplain-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A soldier needs many resources in battle. One of those items is perhaps most important, yet intangible. It’s the importance…
The Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/27Jun14-World-War-I-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s difficult for many of us to name many specific battles or events in World War I. We may have…
The Beginning of World War I
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/26Jun14-World-War-I-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some say the event that began the first World War occurred on June 28, 1914…a century ago. Today we take…
100 Years Since The World’s First Global Conflict
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/25Jun14-World-War-I-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)This week marks 100 years since the world faced its first global conflict. It was a war that would engulf…
The Center of the Hemisphere
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/24Jun14-Center-of-the-Hemisphere.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Head west on highway 29 from Wausau, Wisconsin, then turned north, back west, then back north…and then, find yourself next to…
A Recognizable Last Name
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/23Jun14-Circus-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It all began with Albert, Otto, Alfred, Charles, and John. Without their last names, those first names might not mean…
Home of the Six Toed Cats
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/20Jun14-Ernest-Hemmingway-Home-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you walk around Key West, Florida, there’s a good chance you may encounter a most unusual type of cat….
The Largest Residential Property in Key West
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/19Jun14-Ernest-Hemmingway-Home-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s the single largest residential property in Key West, Florida. The couple who lived here led lives that most of…
Replacing Ceiling Fans with Chandaliers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/18Jun14-Ernest-Hemmingway-Home-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Replacing your ceiling fans with Parisian chandeliers might be an upgrade. That’s what this decorator believed to be the case. …
A Trip to Ernest Hemmingway’s Home
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/17Jun14-Ernest-Hemmingway-Home-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)We’ll be in Key West, Florida for the next installments of our stories, taking a look at well-known author, Ernest…
Pigs in the Middle of a City
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/16Jun14-Chandler-Arizona-Show-Pigs.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You don’t expect to see 400 hogs in the middle of a city, but that’s what’s happening in the Phoenix…
Rebuilding the Pine Creek Grist Mill
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/13Jun14-Pine-Creek-Mill-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)Retirees are often looking for a good cause to which to devote their time. Not many take up grinding flour…
The Pine Creek Mill
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/12Jun14-Pine-Creek-Mill-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)People near Muscatine have always known of a place called Pine Creek Mill, but for most of the 20th century,…
A Recognizable Railroad Depot
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/11Jun14-Wausau-Insurance.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)There’s a good chance you’ve never been to this railroad depot. However, if you’re over forty years old, there’s a…
Graffiti on a Ship
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/10Jun14-Wausau-Vietnam-Exhibit-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Most people consider graffiti a visual nuisance, something to be removed and forgotten. The type of graffiti on this ship…
Inside the General Nelson M Walker
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/09Jun14-Wausau-Vietnam-Exhibit-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In the 1960s, ships like the General Nelson M Walker took thousands of men across the Pacific to the war…
