http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/19Nov11-Ha-Ha-Tonka-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Everyone who ventures here seems to have the same two questions: How did this place get its name and why…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/18Nov11-Chicago-Community-Gardens.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)They are small plots of land, but add them together and they account for a growing trend in the city…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/Buckhorn-Saloon-2011.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)When people can’t pay cash for the items they want, they may try to barter. That’s what this saloon did,…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/16Nov11-Peter-Shinn-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)In this nation, a veterinarian may be called upon to help a sick animal. The vets Peter Shinn helps train…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/15Nov11-Peter-Shinn-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)There are certainly plenty of battles and firefights that continue to be waged in Afghanistan. However, for this team, most…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/Ethanol-Debate.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.8MB)Is turning corn into ethanol causing food prices to rise and some people to starve around the globe? You may…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/Josh-Bliell.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.8MB)On Veterans Day, we remember those who have served our country and those who have fought to preserve freedom at…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/Tom-Mix.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.8MB)Tom Mix was known as the King of the Cowboys, starring in over 300 films from 1910 – 1935. He…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/David-Waldo.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.8MB)When Union and Confederate sympathizers threatened to take this banker’s money, he did what any logical person would do–he dressed…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/Washington-State-Park-Petroglyph.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)When the Civilian Conservation Corp was working here in the 1930s they began to notice some unusual carving in the…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/Town-Country-Inn-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Too many cooks spoil the broth, and too many presidential candidates in the kitchen can cause a lot of problems…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/Town-Country-Inn-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)When do you need to ride 100 yards in a limo to get from your motel room to the banquet…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/Carthage-Illinois-Jail.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Jails aren’t supposed to be a thing of beauty, but the tan limestone walls of the 1839 jailhouse in Carthage,…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/Harry-Houdini-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)They threw him in jail cells, put him in straight jackets, handcuffed him underwater, suspended him in the air from…

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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/War-of-the-Worlds.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)It was Halloween Eve, 1938. Suddenly, the ghosts and goblins that were just an imagination in one’s mind became very…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/23Oct09-Dusenberg.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.0MB)In Northeast Indiana, there’s a town that once produced the top cars of the day. In this very showroom, some…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/Vernice-Flygirl-Armour-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Vernice Armour was a combat pilot in Iraq.  It was an extraordinary mission, working to rebuild the country and protecting…

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