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An Inspiration Along I-35
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/12/22Dec21-Faribault-Christmas-Tree-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Jerry Lageson is very well known for what he does every Christmas. He never set out to be popular or…
Jerry’s Christmas Tree
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/12/21Dec21-Faribault-Christmas-Tree-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)On the surface it would seem Jerry has an easy Christmas lighting situation. He puts lights on just one tree…
Remembering LeRoy Keyes
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/12/20Dec21-LeRoy-Keyes.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In1968, O.J Simpson won the Heisman Trophy…but it was this man who was runner-up in the Heisman balloting that year. …
The Oakley and the Hills of Muscatine
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/12/17Dec21-Muscatine-Car-Dealer.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)For many years Marvin Kreiger operated a car dealership in Muscatine, Iowa. Today, we take a look back at a…
Flaunting the Law on a Radio Station
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/12/16Dec21-Muscatine-Quack-Hospital.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We appreciate the many stations that air our broadcast each day, but a century ago there was a station with…
The Thing That Put Muscatine on the Map
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/12/15Dec21-Muscatine-Pearl-Buttons.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There’s plenty of fertile farmland along the Mississippi River here. But a century ago, this city was known for something…
The Arkansas Spring Water From Alaska?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/12/14Dec21-Blue-Springs-Heritage-Center-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Natural springs are a thing of beauty and also of mystery. Attempts to find the source of this spring have…
Blue Spring Heritage Center
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/12/13Dec21-Blue-Springs-Heritage-Center-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Just outside of Eureka Springs, Arkansas you will find one of the largest natural springs in the area. It’s captivating…
Meet the American Ninja Warrior
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/12/10Dec21-American-Ninja-Warrior-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We never give it a thought, but most of us perform our jobs with our feet on the ground. Even…
What’s A Comedic, Sports Actor to Do?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/12/09Dec21-American-Ninja-Warrior-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In his early 20s Alex Weber realized that he was some sort of comedic sports actor. Perhaps he wondered if…
Sterling Cale – Hero Under Attack
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/12/08Dec21-Pearl-Harbor-Sterling-Cole-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sterling Cale acted with bravery and courage during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Why then was he going to be…
The Attack at Pearl Harbor
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/12/07Dec21-Pearl-Harbor-Sterling-Cole-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He was an eye witness to history, a man who was in the waters of Pearl Harbor during and after…
Remembering Pearl Harbor
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/12/06Dec21-Pearl-Harbor-Sterling-Cole-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He was a farm boy from Illinois who thought he’d received the prime spot for anyone to serve in the…
Celebrating Thanksgiving
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/11/03Dec21-Burnham-Phillipine-Hostages-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today’s story is about Thanksgiving. Yes, it does involve the holiday, but in a much different way. It’s the story…
Taken Hostage in the Philippines
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/11/02Dec21-Burnham-Phillipine-Hostages-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the Spring of 2001 several people were taken hostage in the Philippines by terrorist and held for over a…
Training for Future Missions
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/11/01Dec21-Burnham-Phillipine-Hostages-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)For a time the Burnham family few crop dusting jobs in western Nebraska. Perhaps it was good training for flights…
Flying Planes In and Out of Mountainous Jungles
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/11/30Nov21-Burnham-Phillipine-Hostages-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was a flight not for the faint of heart – flying small planes in and out of mountainous jungles. …
History Alive! Lanesboro, MN
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/11/29Nov21-Lanesboro-MN-History-Alive.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Jane loved history and the performing arts and when she found herself in this town of under 1000 people she…
The First Thanksgiving
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/11/26Nov21-Plymouth-Plantation.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We associate the first Thanksgiving with the Native American and Pilgrims living in Plymouth Colony. However, we know very little…
Rock Hunting
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/11/25Nov21-Plymouth-Rock.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Each Thanksgiving we are likely to remember the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth Rock. But is that rock really the…
