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South Dakota’s First State Park
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/24Jun20-Custer-State-Park-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It is South Dakota’s first state park but when it was established over a century ago one man was worried…
John the Baptist and Music
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/23Jun20-Father-Paul-Turner-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may not think of John the Baptist as someone who would teach you a lot about music, but in…
Another Man’s Birthday Celebrated
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/22Jun20-Father-Paul-Turner-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Everyone knows that Christmas is celebrated on December 25th, but at the opposite point of the year, another man’s birth…
The Historic Route of Cereals
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/19Jun20-Kellogg-Cereal.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Grocery stores devote plenty of shelf space to cereals, but the historic route those breakfast foods took to get there…
The Copper Queen Mine
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/18Jun20-Copper-Queen-Mine.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Under the earth in southern Arizona you’ll find a place that brought people to the dry, wide open stretches of…
Some of the Best Loved Dogs in the World
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/17Jun20-Seeing-Eye.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They are some of the best known and most loved dogs in the world…
A Museum with Big Artifacts
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/16Jun20-South-Dakota-Air-Space-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a museum with some of the biggest artifacts you’ll find and you can walk right up to just about…
Higher and Faster than a Plane
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/15Jun20-South-Dakota-Air-Space-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When you think of an Air Force base you of course think of air planes. But at this base, the…
A Presidential Retreat
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/12Jun20-Catoctin-Mountain-Park-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)People have long recognized this place as a prime spot to get away from it all. During the term of…
A One-time Disaster Area
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/11Jun20-Catoctin-Mountain-Park-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There was a time when these hills were a seeming disaster area. Fires and erosion had driven farmers from the…
Boston’s Black Tide
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/10Jun20-Dark-Tide-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When a massive tank of molasses burst on Boston’s Commerical Street in 1919, 21 lives were lost in the resulting…
A Wall of Molasses
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/09Jun20-Dark-Tide-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)At first it may sound like a hoax, a wall of molasses moving through the city of Boston swallowing everything…
An Oasis in the Middle of a Desert
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/08Jun20-Mojave-Desert.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It is truly an oasis in the middle of a desert, a place where rails, roads and range meet. We…
The Great Molasses Flood of 1919
https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/1d004633-2e9e-47f1-9b89-a754011a2aa9/87acce9d-6e1d-427e-9030-ab9200e3ded5/d7f1086d-a16f-4b38-a652-abd4003c65ac/audio.mp3Podcast: Download ()It may sound like a laughing matter, but it was not. A 25 foot tall wall of molasses was moving through the streets…
The Most Memorable Tour
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/05/05Jun20-Gettysburg-Battlefield-Guide-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He’s shared his knowledge with joint chiefs of staff, ambassadors and other high-ranking government officials. But when you lead tours…
A Title That’s Tough to Attain
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/05/04Jun20-Gettysburg-Battlefield-Guide-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Each of us probably remembers studying hours and hours for a big test. The test given here certainly requires plenty…
The Last Steam Engine
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/05/03Jun20-Sterling-Illinois-Dillon-Home-Barbed-Wire-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You can still find a few steam engines in this country pulling tourist trains. But when was the last steam…
“What” Won the West
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/05/02Jun20-Sterling-Illinois-Dillon-Home-Barbed-Wire-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Who won the west? Perhaps a better question is, “what” won the west? Erin Thompson says what won the west…
A Patent That Changed the Way People Farmed and Ranched
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/05/01Jun20-Sterling-Illinois-Dillon-Home-Barbed-Wire-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the 1870’s, a series of patents were first issued for this product that was destined to change the way…
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show in Europe
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/05/29May20-Buffalo-Bill-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)On the eve of Word War I, the European portion of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show quickly found their operation…
