Author: Tom
Unusual Fenceposts
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/06/15Jun12-Joe-Jeffrey-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Every cattleman needs good fences to keep the herd from roaming free. Joe Jeffrey has seen many miles of those…
Finding Ways to Water the Crops
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/14Jun12-Joe-Jeffrey-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)You can plant a crop in the ground, but without water it will do very little. The farmers in this…
Mile Long Bridges Over Dry River Beds
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/13Jun12-Joe-Jeffrey-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)When the first residents of this area began building bridges to cross the nearby river, they found they often needed…
Saint Gaudens National Historic Site
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/12Jun12-St-Gaudens.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)It’s New Hampshire’s only National Park Service site, named after the man who’s work it preserves…..
The Bottle Tree Ranch
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/06/11Jun12-Bottle-Tree.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Elmer Long doesn’t manage a national forest, but it may be the most unique collection of trees in the nation….
Crossing a Bridge Every Two Years
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/08Jun12-Chain-of-Rocks-Bridge-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Every two years the city of St. Louis gets an added route to cross the Mississippi River from Missouri to…
A Bridge With a Curve
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/07Jun12-Chain-of-Rocks-Bridge-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)The development of not only cars, but roads themselves, has improved safety and lessened highway fatalities. But in the 1920s,…
The Location of the National D-Day Memorial
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/06Jun12-D-Day-Memorial-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)It’s been nearly seven decades since allied troops landed at Normandy on D-day. Over four thousand men gave their lives…
From a Small Farming Community
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/06/05Jun12-D-Day-Memorial-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Many of those who served in World War II actually joined the armed forces before the tragedy at Pearl Harbor….
The National D-Day Memorial
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/06/04Jun12-Bob-Garst-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Bob Garst spent 22 years in the armed forces. Today he is retired, but much of his job is simply…
Bob Garst
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/01Jun12-Bob-Garst-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)It’s estimated that over three million military men and women served in Vietnam and neighboring nations during the Vietnam War….
Inspired by a Character from Happy Days
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/31May12-Santa-Monica-Pier-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Dan Rice has traveled the length of Route 66 over two dozen times. It might surprise people that his original…
The Sign at Santa Monica Pier
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/30May12-Santa-Monica-Pier-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Today this sign on Santa Monica Pier attracts a steady stream of travelers who pose by it. Interestingly, it’s a…
The End of Route 66
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/29May12-Santa-Monica-Pier-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)In 1926 Route 66 ended at the corner of 7th and Broadway in downtown Los Angles, California. Today, most people…
The Wounded Warrior Program
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/28May12-Wounded-Warrior-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)On Memorial Day we remember our friends and family who have passed. It is a day of tribute and remembrance…
A Program for Injured Soldiers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/25May12-Wounded-Warrior-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Soldiers may encounter all kinds of obstacles on the battlefield. What Mary did not realize was the great challenges they…
William Paca
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/24May12-William-Paca.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)As the colonies approached the year 1776, old social ties were sometimes stretched thin. But in the capitol of Maryland,…
A Celebrity Inmate
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/23May12-Boonville-County-Jail-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Occasionally there are nationally known celebrities that break the law and must serve some jail time. Those cases, of course,…
The Cooper County Jail
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/22May12-Boonville-County-Jail-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)The historic jail in Boonville, Missouri was built to house those convicted of crimes in the county. However, it also…
Returning to the Country That Held You Prisoner of War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/21May12-Camp-Algona-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)It’s hard to imagine being held as a prisoner of war and then, after the war, immigrating to the country…