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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/10May22-Chillicothe-Sliced-Bread-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sliced bread was born, but there’s much more to this story, including how the new product was received and where…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/09May22-Chillicothe-Sliced-Bread-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Go down a supermarket aisle and you can find lots of different types of bread.  White bread, wheat, honey oat,…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/06May22-Holbrook-Arizona-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes movies do more than just bring in dollars at the box office.  They occasionally have an impact on the…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/05May22-Holbrook-Arizona-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are many towns in the western U.S. that had rough and tumble beginnings.  They are places where it was…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/04May22-Chilicothe-T-Mobile-Hometown-Grant.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)On the north side of the square in Chillicothe, MO you’ll find a small park where some buildings once stood. …

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/03May22-Fort-Riley-Kansas-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There is a lot of important military artifacts in this museum and Dr. Robert Smith can tell you why each…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/02May22-Fort-Riley-Kansas-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you drive by Junction City, Kansas on Interstate 70 you’ll see the airfield and buildings related to one of…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/29Apr22-Pima-Air-and-Space-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine flying a plane called the “Super Guppy.”  There are only two in existence and one is here for the…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/28Apr22-Pima-Air-and-Space-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The President of the United States flies in Air Force One…and to some extent they can customize the ride to…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/27Apr22-Pima-Air-and-Space-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In Tucson, Arizona you’ll find a place dubbed “the boneyard.”  It’s a military facility that scraps old airplanes.    Across the…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/26Apr22-Wahoo-Nebraska-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s certainly one of the more unique names for a town in the country.   Interestingly, no one knows for sure…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/25Apr22-Wahoo-Nebraska-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Lots of people have nicknames.  This baseball hall of famer was so proud of his hometown, they inserted it into…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/22Apr22-Redwood-National-Park-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Normally the taller a tree grows, the deeper its roots sink into the ground.  But these trees seem to do…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/21Apr22-Redwood-National-Park-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s one of the smallest seeds – in fact, it’s just about the size of a tomato seed.  However, what…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/20Apr22-Perry-Iowa-100-Plus-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Four times each year a group of people in Perry, Iowa are writing $100 checks to an important local cause…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/19Apr22-Perry-Iowa-100-Plus-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s called One Hundred Plus for Perry.  Although local residents can’t take credit for the idea, they adapted in from…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/18Apr22-Grotto-of-the-Redemption-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It took 80 years to build this structure in West Bend, IA and today it is valued in the millions…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/15Apr22-Grotto-of-the-Redemption-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It is a story fitting for the message of Good Friday – the story of a priest who recovered from…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/14Apr22-Big-Bend-River-Guide-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was a land full of tall grass – a place perfect to graze cattle and set up a ranch. …