Posted in American Countryside Best of Missouri

Your Face on the Side of a Semi

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/28Nov13-Fred-Mares-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Each of the communities that we call home can claim outstanding individuals who go the extra mile when it comes…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Missouri

A Helpful Smile In Every Aisle

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/27Nov13-Fred-Mares-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Image a man who speaks over ten languages, can play multiple musical instruments and serenade customers with his wonderful voice….

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Posted in American Countryside Kentucky

Inside the Brown Hotel

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/26Nov13-Brown-Hotel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)It’s not everyday you check into a hotel and catch a fish in the lobby.  It’s just one of the…

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Posted in American Countryside Kentucky

A Motivation to Start Your Own Business

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/25Nov13-Brown-Hotel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)James Graham Brown never forgot the day he was refused service at a Louisville business.   The event served as a…

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Posted in American Countryside Presidents Texas

Inside Trauma Room One at Parkland Hospital

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/22Nov13-JFK-Nurse-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Trauma Room One at Parkland Hospital is a place Phyllis Hall knew well.  As a nurse, she had worked in…

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Posted in American Countryside Presidents

A Part of Presidential History in Dallas

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/21Nov13-JFK-Nurse-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)Phyllis Hall worked in the emergency room and clinics of Dallas’ Parkland Hospital for eight years.  No day could compare…

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Posted in American Countryside Presidents Texas

A Dallas Emergency Room Nurse

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/20Nov13-JFK-Nurse-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)For the next few features we’ll be visiting with Phyllis Hall, nurse at Dallas’ Parkland Hospital.  She was in the…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Civil War

The 150th Annivesary of the Gettysburg Address

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/19Nov13-Gettysburg-150.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Just four months after the Battle of Gettysburg, over 50,000 people came to that town for the dedication of a…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Massachusetts

The Saugus Iron Works

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/18Nov13-Saugus-Iron-Works.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It is a factory that began operation over a century before England’s colonies became the United State of America. We…

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Levee High Pie

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/Blue-Owl-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The flood of 1993 almost washed away this restaurant. The levee saved the building and provided the inspiration behind their…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Missouri

Baking At the Blue Owl

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/Blue-Owl-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)1983 was the best of times and worst of times for Mary. She was going through a divorce, but it’s…

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The Decatur House

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/13Nov13-Decatur-House.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)This was the first home, other than the White House, built on Lafayette Square.  It is a place rich with…

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Posted in American Countryside New York

The Survivor Tree

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/12Nov13-Survivor-Tree.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)When the twin towers collapsed on September 11th, 2001, emergency responders raced to the scene to save lives.  Interestingly, there…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Connecticut

Mystic Seaport

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/11Nov13-Mystic-Seaport-2013.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Long before the birth of this nation, this seaport was building the ships that would create a stream of commerce…

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The Rendevous Theatre

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/08Nov13-Rendevous-Theatre.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When hunters and trappers would gather once each season, it was often called a rendezvous. In Alaska and the Yukon…

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Posted in American Countryside Washington, DC

Standing Your Ground

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/07Nov13-Octagon-House-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)When the British entered the Washington, D.C. during the War of 1812, they burned many of the government’s buildings, including…

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Posted in American Countryside Washington, DC

The Octagon in Washington, DC

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/06Nov13-Octagon-House-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Everyone knows the Pentagon is in Washington.  But did you know the city is home to an Octagon as well? …

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Oklahoma

The Oklahoma Land Rush

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/05Nov13-Cherokee-Strip.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine a train chugging south out of Kansas with people jumping from the cars all along its route. The reason…

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Getting to FFA Contest

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/04Nov13-Ralph-Drennen.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)An FFA advisor was driving his students to a competition when the bus broke down with twenty eight students and…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Missouri

Daniel Boone Crosses the Mississippi

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/01Nov13-St-Louis-History-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Daniel Boone is one of the most famous American frontiersmen. But when he crossed the Mississippi River, he went to…

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