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Saving the Lives of Rescue Workers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/23Jan14-Fireman-Joe-Torillo-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Amid the tragic loss of life at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, one man saved the lives…
A Ceremony That Would Not Take Place
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/22Jan14-Fireman-Joe-Torillo-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Joe Torrillo was ready to unveil a new action figure for a giant toy company in New York City. However,…
Tragedy and Triumph on 9-11
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/21Jan14-Fireman-Joe-Torillo-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we begin a series of programs with New York City firefighter, Joe Torrillo, as he shares his story of…
Scenic Route: Inside the World Trade Center
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/01/ScenicRoute_JoeCarillo.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 23:29 — 16.1MB)If you were old enough to remember September 11th, 2001, you know exactly where you were when you heard the…
Beautiful Works of Restoration
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/17Jan14-Pool-Table-Restoration.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)To say Joe Newell restores pool tables is like saying Michelangelo was just a painter. The work Joe does is…
A Game of Basketball in the Rain
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/16Jan14-Basketball-History-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Football is a game played in the elements. Mud, rain, ice and snow may impact the game. Now imagine if…
The First Olympic Games with Basketball
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/15Jan14-Basketball-History-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)1936 was the first time the Olympics recognized the game of basketball as an official sport. In the U.S., AAU,…
The Globe Refiners
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/14Jan14-Basketball-History-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ve heard of basketball teams like the Lakers, Bulls and Celtics. But what about the Globe Refiners? Turn back the…
A Winter Sport for Young Men & Women
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/13Jan14-Basketball-History-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It all began as a way for young men and women to have a sport to play during the winter. …
A Deer in the Courthouse
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/10Jan14-Chase-County-Courthouse-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A deer that runs loose inside the courthouse might cause a scene. Now imagine enraged residents chaining themselves to trees…
The County Seat of Chase County, Kansas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/09Jan14-Chase-County-Courthouse-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Cottonwood Falls is the county seat of Chase County, Kansas. The town has just over 900 people, but don’t let…
The World’s Tallest
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/08Jan14-Worlds-Tallest-Hill.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)It is one of the highest points in the world and it isn’t out of reach for any climber, no…
A Hotel on the Frontier
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/07Jan14-Poteau-Oklahoma-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine a six story hotel in a place some would consider the frontier border of Oklahoma and Arkansas. That was…
A Place Called Poteau
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/06Jan14-Poteau-Oklahoma-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Most folks aren’t quite sure how to pronounce the name of this town. The name looks like it belongs to…
A Method to Your Work
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/Methodist-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.4MB)If you do something the same way day after day, you might be said to have a method to your…
Encountering Trying Times
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/Methodist-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)On the southeast coast of Georgia you can find the place were these brothers encountered one of their most trying…
Best of 2013: Big Bud
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/01Jan14-Best-of-2013-Big-Bud.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)Deere, Case, Oliver, Ford and Allis-Chalmers…they are but a few of …..many companies that have built tractors. The largest tractor…
Best of 2013: Inside the Presidential Limo
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/31Dec13-Best-of-2013-Presidential-Limo.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may have heard people say that President Kennedy would have never been assassinated in Dallas if he ordered the…
Best of 2013: A Viking Ship
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/30Dec13-Best-of-2013-Viking-Ship.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)On the surface it seemed to be a ludicrous project. A man with no experience building boats, was going to…
Best of 2013: Arecibo Observatory
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/27Dec13-Best-of-2013-Arecibo-Observatory.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)On occasion you may here a story about an asteroid making a close pass to our planet. So who tells…