Author: Tom
Drew Hastings
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/01/Drew-Hastings.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)There are many ways you can make a living on the farm, including finding the humor in it. That’s what…
The Statues of Easter Island
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/01/21Jan11-Easter-Island-21.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 940.8KB)For centuries these giant stone carvings have stood watch over an isolated outpost in the Pacific. They are the moi…
A Thousand Miles Away
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/01/20Jan11-Easter-Island-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.8MB)Imagine a living in a place where your nearest neighbors resided over 1000 miles away. That’s real life for the…
Growing Seed for North America
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/01/Tuniche-Seeds-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)While American fields lie dormant each winter, the seed that will be planted the coming spring is often already growing…
Seed from Chile
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/01/Tuniche-Seeds-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Last planting season as I poured a bag of corn in our planter, I noticed the seed originated in Chile….
Menno Attema
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/01/17Jan11-Minnow-Altama.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Imagine growing up on a farm and then in your early twenties traveling on your own a half a world…
The Women’s Astronaut Program
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/01/Mercury-Women-Program-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.8MB)In the early 1980’s, the United States put its first woman into space, a full two decades after space travel…
The Mercury Training Program for Women
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/01/Mercury-Women-Program-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.8MB)The first man in space? The first man to orbit the earth? The first man to walk on the moon?…
William Quantrill
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/01/William-Quantril.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.8MB)Mention the name William Quantrill in Kansas or Missouri, and you’re likely to get stories of Quantrill’s Raiders sweeping into…
A Farmer’s Market in the North
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/01/27Aug09-Palmer-Alaska-Farmers-Market.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 952.9KB)When you think of fertile farmland, you probably think about rich, deep soil in the heart of the Midwest. But…
Salem, Illionois’ Library
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/01/10Jan11-Bryan-Bennett-Library.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)In Salem, Illinois you’ll find a library named for a man who never set foot in this town. He simply…
The Official FFA Jacket
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/01/FFA-Jackets-2011.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)A doctor is expected to wear a white coat. A policeman is supposed to have a badge. A cowboy, of…
Free Range Chickens
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/01/Free-Range-Chickens.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.8MB)When Herman’s son brought home an antiquated animal production book that he happen to find in his high school ag…
William Jenning Bryan
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/01/William-Jenning-Bryan.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)ver a century has passed since this man ran for president three times. While he never held the oval office,…
The Hearthstone Mansion
http://www.tombrand.info/audio/AMC/HearthstoneMansion.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Reports say the lights in this home made it seem like night had turned to day. In fact, the lights…
Mike Rinard, Deffense Attorney
http://www.tombrand.info/audio/AMC/03Jan11MikeRinard.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Perry Mason was a star defense attorney on the silver screen, but it’s doubtful that he ever had to work…
Best of 2010: Ava Drugstore
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Best-of-2010-Ava-Drugstore.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 937.2KB)In 1950s America kids might have finished their school day with a trip by the drug store soda fountain where…
Best of 2010: Jim Thorpe
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Best-of-2010-Jim-Thorpe.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.4KB)In 1912 he was proclaimed the world’s greatest athlete and some of his Olympic records from that year still stood…
Best of 2010: The Alamo
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Best-of-2010-Alamo.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.4KB)It’s one of the most famous buildings at the center of one of the most famous battles in history. A…
Best of 2010: Tom Crosby
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Best-of-2010-Tom-Crosby.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)American troops had finally made it to Manila and were attempting to free POWs like Tom Crosby. Just when things…