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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/09Aug12-Squirrel-Cage-Jail-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:28 — 1.1MB)If you seem to be busy, but going nowhere in life, you might be said to be a “hamster in…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/08/08Aug12-John-Browns-Cave-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)For a decade, this place kept its true purpose a secret.  To do otherwise would jeopardize those who came here….

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/07Aug12-John-Browns-Cave-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)This small log cabin has been in Nebraska City for over 150 years.  It appears to be much like other…

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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/03Aug12-Bucks-County-Pennsylvania.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 1.4MB)There are many places in the United States that were once thriving agricultural areas and are now under pressure from…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/02Aug12-Fanning-Outpost-Rocking-Chair.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 1.4MB)Some people have a chair lift to assist them.  But this chair requires a lift just to sit in it….

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/01Aug12-Gene-Tunks-Drought.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Imagine a drought so severe that you began to cut down trees just so the cattle could eat the leaves….

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/31Jul12-Uncle-Bill-Drought.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 1.4MB)Drought.  It causes crops to shrivel, prices to spike and farmers to worry about making ends meet.  There is no…

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