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A Home for Big Cats
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/27Aug13-National-Tiger-Sanctuary-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Animal shelters may care for unwanted cats. But when it comes to these kind of cats, it takes a special…
The Pontiac Wagon
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/26Aug13-Pontiac-Oakland-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Today we take a look at a very old Pontiac wagon. No, we’re not talking about a station wagon, but…
A Car Named for Oakland County, Michigan
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/23Aug13-Pontiac-Oakland-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)If I were to tell you that there is a car named for Oakland County, Michigan you’d probably not recognize…
The Walldog Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/22Aug13-Walldogs.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What is a “walldog” and why is there a museum devoted to it? Well, the answer can be found in…
Little House on the Prairie
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/21Aug13-Laura-Ingalls-Wilder.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)It’s hard to imagine it happened by chance–8 books and a 10 year television series–all based on one young pioneer…
Where Horses Wouldn’t Drink
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/20Aug13-Bartlesville-Oklahoma.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)George Keeler noticed his horses wouldn’t drink from this spot on the Caney River. The location is today an important…
The Battle of the Hemp Bales
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/19Aug13-Battle-of-the-Hemp-Bales.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)The bullet holes still scar the inside and outside of this home, a place that was a hospital during a…
Clark Gable and the Cyclorama
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/16Aug13-Atlanta-Cyclorama-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Many people remember Clark Gable in the movie Gone With the Wind. But have you seen him in his role…
The Bankruptcy of a Circus Benefits a City
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/15Aug13-Atlanta-Cyclorama-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Never was the bankruptcy of a circus so fortuitous to a city. Not only did they pick up what would…
What Started as a Campaign Poster…
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/14Aug13-Atlanta-Cyclorama-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)It began life as a campaign poster, although you would have to have one very large wall to ever hang…
Remembering the Civil War in Atlanta
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/13Aug13-Atlanta-Cyclorama-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)It’s been over a century and a half since the beginning of the U.S. Civil War, yet many Americans are…
Vermont’s Only National Park
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/12Aug13-Marsh-Billings-Rockafeller.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ve heard of Yellowstone and Yosemite, but try naming the State of Vermont’s only national park…
Surviving the Romanians and the Nazis
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/09Aug13-Paula-Neuman-Gris-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Paula Neuman Gris, her mother and younger sister had survived life in a forced labor camp at the hands of…
The Holocaust From the Eyes of a Child
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/08Aug13-Paula-Neuman-Gris-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Paula Newman Gris was but six years old, but the decision she was about to make could impact her life…
The Difficult Stories of Surviving the Holocaust
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/07Aug13-Paula-Neuman-Gris-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Paula Neuman Gris was but three years old when her family began to be torn apart by the Holocaust. Although…
A Holocaust Survivor’s Story
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/06Aug13-Paula-Neuman-Gris-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Over the next few days you’ll be hearing from Paula Neuman Gris, a girl of only four years of age…
A Nice Place Called Peculiar
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/05Aug13-Peculiar-Missouri.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Not all of us can live in a normal place. While most of the nation resides in cities that are…
Paul & Babe on the Shores of Lake Bemidji
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/02Aug13-Paul-Bunyan-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)On the shores of Lake Bemidji stand Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox. The pair have been immortalized in…
Paul Bunyan & Babe the Blue Ox
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/01Aug13-Paul-Bunyan-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Just about all of us have heard of him and most of us would say he’s just a make believe…
Native American Portraits
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/31Jul13-St-Joseph-Native-American-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What on the surface may appear to be just a bunch of paintings of important Native American leaders, is actually…
