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James Madison Helps Save a Nation
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/06/04Jul19-James-Madison-Constitution-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The United States was just eleven years old, but it was a nation in crisis. James Madison was the man…
Dave Roever
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/06/03Jul19-Dave-Roever-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)His name is Dave Roever, spelled R-o-e-v-e-r. If you’ve not heard or seen his message, you need to watch him…
Looking In the Mirror
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/06/02Jul19-Dave-Roever-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)What do you see when you look in the mirror? What Dave Roever saw was far from himself. In fact,…
Hit by a Sniper’s Bullet
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/06/01Jul19-Dave-Roever-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Dave Roever was serving his country in Vietnam when a sniper’s bullet would change his life forever. And in turn…
The Pink Castle
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/06/28Jun19-Pickler-Mansion-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s known as the “Pink Castle.” You’d be surprised how many notable figures passed through these halls and the importance…
Putting Stakes in the Ground
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/06/27Jun19-Pickler-Mansion-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)They built their home so far from civilization, they put stakes in the ground so they could find their way…
From Korea to Vietnam
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/06/26Jun19-Kermit-Bell.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Over 2 decades after he first entered the army, Kermit Bell was now on his way to Vietnam. Not only…
The Sunset Volcano
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/06/25Jun19-Sunset-Crater.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Although it’s been about a millennium since this place rumbled to life…the mountain still speaks of the event that took…
Three Island State Park
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/06/24Jun19-Three-Island-State-Park.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The Oregon Trail had plenty of dangers for the many emigrants who traversed its path…but here in southern Idaho lied…
A Method to Your Work
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/06/21Jun19-Methodist-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)If you do something the same way day after day, you might be said to have a method to your…
The Beginning of a Reformation Movement
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/06/20Jun19-Methodist-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)On the southeast coast of Georgia you can find the place were these brothers encountered one of their most trying…
Not the Man for Joe’s Daughter
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/06/19Jun19-JFK-Birthplace-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)There was no doubt in Fitz’s mind, Joe was not the man for his daughter. This is the story of…
A Special House on Beal Street
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/06/18Jun19-JFK-Birthplace-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Beals street looks to be just another street in suburban Boston. But one house here is special…
Just the Start of a Military Career
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/06/17Jun19-D-Day-Higgins-Boat-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Perhaps landing at D-Day would be the biggest event in one’s military career. But for Marvin Perrett, he was just…
The D-Day Invasion
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/06/14Jun19-D-Day-Higgins-Boat-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It was early June of 1944 and for the American GI’s along the coast of England, they knew the time…
A Ride on a Higgins Boat
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/06/13Jun19-D-Day-Higgins-Boat-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Marvin Perrett can still take you on a ride on a Higgins boat today. If you don’t know what that…
America’s Most Visited National Park
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/05/12Jun19-Smokey-Mountain-National-Park.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s America’s most visited National Park and although masses to come to enjoy its wooded mountains, you can still find…
Preserving History and Bringing It Back to Life
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/05/11Jun19-Jackson-Old-Country-Store-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Some folks may just stop by for the well-known buffet. But take a stroll around this place and you’ll be…
A Very Old Store
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/05/10Jun19-Jackson-Old-Country-Store-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)Clark Shaw oversees a very old store. In fact, it’s so old, some people probably thought he was a little…
The Story of the Famous Engineer
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/05/07Jun19-Casey-Jones-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)If you know his name, it is perhaps from a ballad sung by Johnny Cash. This is the story of…