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The Last National Convention
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/22Oct10-Larry-Case-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)“Being older than the rest of you I’m asked to advise you from time to time as the need arises…..”…
Dr. Larry Case’s Most Memorable Day
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/21Oct10-Larry-Case-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Dr. Larry Case became National FFA Advisor in 1984, but perhaps his most memorable day as an advisor at any…
“Here By the Owl…”
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/20Oct10-Larry-Case-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)The National FFA Convention is in Indianapolis this week, and this will be the last such event for Dr. Larry…
June McCarroll’s Lasting Legacy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/18Oct10-June-McCarroll.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Today you could get a ticket if you don’t drive on your side of the road. Worse yet, you could…
The Kansas Cosmosphere
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/15Oct10-Kansas-Cosmosphere-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.9MB)Today we’re back in Hutchinson, KS and say hello to our listeners on KWBW. I can attest to what folks…
A Cosmosphere in the Plains
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Kansas-Cosmosphere-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.9MB)Where can you find the largest collection of Soviet space artifacts on display in the world? The answer is in…
A Museum for a Date
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Date-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)A new museum is opening that is perfect for you and a date. It’s a bad pun but a fun…
Show-Me Energy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Show-Me-Energy.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:58 — 925.7KB)You may have heard of cellulosic ethanol production, but cellulosic plants can be used to provide a variety of products…..
Arkansas’ Spanish Treasure Cave
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Spanish-Treasure-Cave-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)In the years following Columbus’ voyage to the new world, other Europeans followed, some with ideas of conquering native American…
Chasing a Treasure
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Spanish-Treasure-Cave-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Imagine finding a treasure map with a route marking the spot where you could find unimaginable riches. Sounds like a…
Jailhouse Families
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Jailhouse-Families.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)When the Sheriff was away, the prisoners might play; that is, until the Sheriff’s wife got involved…..
Big Pumpkins
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Big-Pumpkin.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Some people put a lot of time into carving a jack-o-lantern. But if you want to use one of Don…
Joplin, Missouri’s Murals
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Joplin-Murals.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)The two large murals inside Joplin, Missouri’s city hall are certainly great works of art. However, when you hear the…
One Pitch
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Carl-Mays-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Carl Mays’ baseball statistics are comparable to many who are in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. However, one…
Baseball’s Carl Mays
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/09/Carl-Mays-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of Carl Mays. He played on teams with Babe Ruth, had a 15…
Inside the Kansas Salt Mines
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/09/Kansas-Salt-Mines-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 940.0KB)When you think of healthy jobs, mining doesn’t leap to the top of many people’s lists. However, in Kansas, people…
Going Underground
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/09/Kansas-Salt-Mines-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 940.2KB)We’ve sunk to a new level to bring you this program. That doesn’t necessarily mean we’ve lost our morals or…
Brayan Pena
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/09/Bryan-Pena-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Bryan Pena has played catcher for the Atlanta Braves and the Kansas City Royals. However, his proudest accomplishment may be…
Leaving Cuba
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/09/Bryan-Pena-11.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Imagine growing up in a country where you were not allowed to leave its borders; a place where the stories…
Honoring the Veterans from Vietnam War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/09/Vietnam-Moving-Wall-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Imagine uprooting one of the most popular monuments in Washington, D.C. and taking it on tour all across the U.S….