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The 24 Hour Las Vegas Museum

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/01/25Jan12-Las-Vegas-Endurance-Plane-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)You may recall we recently discussed a pair of brothers in Mississippi who in 1935 set a record by keeping…

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Posted in American Countryside Iowa Podcast

The World’s Longest Flight

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/12/24Jan12-Iowa-Aviation-Museum-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)The longest nonstop commercial flight in the world is currently a Singapore Airlines route from Newark to Singapore.  It’s in…

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Posted in American Countryside Iowa Podcast

Iowa’s Aviation Museum

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/01/23Jan12-Iowa-Aviation-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)For the past few days we,ve been in Greenfield, Iowa, home to the Iowa Aviation Museum.  You probably never realized…

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Charles Levine

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/01/20Jan12-Iowa-Aviation-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Chalres Lindburgh was the first person to fly an airplane across the Atlantic Ocean.  But lost in our history books…

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Posted in American Countryside Iowa Podcast

Landing A Plane on a Boat

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/01/19Jan12-Iowa-Aviation-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Today, aircraft carriers and the planes they transport play a vital role in country’s military might.   However, have you…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of

Root Capitol

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/01/18Jan12-Root-Capitol.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 1.4MB)Willy Foote saw farmers and farmer cooperatives in developing nations often struggle to survive.  What resulted was a vision that…

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Pearl Harbor Survivor Al Bodenlos

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/01/17Jan12-Al-Bodenlos-Pearl-Harbor.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 1.4MB)Al can tell you plenty about building airport runways.  Of course, most of those he helped build were on surfaces…

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Chattanooga Battlefield

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/01/16Jan12-Chattanooga-Battlefield.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Imagine being a slave at the beginning of the Civil War only later to have an opportunity to join the…

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Posted in American Countryside Illinois Podcast

Turkey Tracks

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/01/13Jan12-Route-66-Turkey-Tracks.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 1.4MB)There is definitely an art to tracking and calling a wild turkey.  Jerry Law had no trouble tracking this turkey….

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Posted in American Countryside Illinois Podcast

The Luna Cafe

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/01/12Jan12-Luna-Cafe.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)In front of the Luna Café, on old route 66 near Mitchell, Illinois, you’ll find a beautifully restored neon sign….

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Posted in American Countryside cattle Nebraska Podcast

A Palm Beach Girl on the Ranch

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/01/11Jan12-Ann-Burkholder.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)She was a very unlikely candidate to manage a cattle feedyard in central Nebraksa.  She grew up in Palm Beach…

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Posted in American Countryside Nebraska Podcast

The Snowstorm That Built a Radio Station

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/12/10Jan12-KRVN-Radio.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Many radio stations have interesting stories of how they were born.  This station in central Nebraska was the product of…

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Posted in American Countryside Iowa Podcast

A Unique Midwest Harvest

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/01/09Jan12-Jim-Stillman.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)In some parts of the Midwest, you can buy a brand new car for the same price as one acre…

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Ghana’s District Farmer of the Year

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/01/06Jan12-Ghana-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Today we meet the district farmer of the year.  A lady growing ten acres of corn–a farmer adopting some of…

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Corn Stored Under Tarps

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/01/05Jan12-Ghana-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Drive through farm country and you can find plenty of shiny new grain bins to hold ever increasing yields. Drive…

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The Challenges of Growing Corn in Africa

http://www.showmetractorcruise.com/audio/AmericanCountryside/04Jan12__Ghana2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Many farm events and banquets in the US begin with prayer.  This farm meeting opened with a joint prayer of…

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Corn Harvest in Ghana

http://www.showmetractorcruise.com/audio/AmericanCountryside/03Jan12__Ghana1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)I always enjoy the harvest on our farm.  Days spent in the combine or hauling grain to the bins are…

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Free Range Chickens

http://www.showmetractorcruise.com/audio/AmericanCountryside/02Jan12__Free_Range_Chickens.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)When Herman’s son brought home an antiquated animal production book he found in his high school ag classroom, Herman decided…

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Best of 2011: Barbara Law

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/12/30Dec11-Best-of-2011-Barbara-Law.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Our best of 2012 continues today with a lady named Barbara who was a teenager living in Japan when World…

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Best of 2011: The New Mallery Abbey

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/12/29Dec11-Best-of-2011-New-Mallery-Abbey.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)When people began attending funerals here, many had the exact same reaction. They mentioned that when they passed, they wanted…

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