http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/01May17-El-Dorado-Mine-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A place can be deceiving.  That was exactly the case here in what is today’s desert south of Las Vegas….

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/28Apr17-New-Bedford-Seamans-Bethel.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)You’ll find many churches in New Bedford, Massachusetts, but you’ll have to look far and wide to find one with…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/27Apr17-New-Bedford-Whaling-Museum-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The ship’s name was the Dartmouth.  When it took a cargo of whale oil to England no one perhaps thought…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/26Apr17-New-Bedford-Whaling-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Did you ever leave home for a while, then return and find that lots had changed?  That was commonplace in…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/25Apr17-New-Bedford-Whaling-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s called a Nantucket sleigh ride.  Sounds like a nice winter ride, but it’s actually far from a peaceful dash…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/24Apr17-New-Bedford-Whaling-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you made good revenue from a field you might call it your “cash crop.” Here the cash crop doesn’t…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/21Apr17-Postville-Courthouse-2017.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Americans regard him as one of their most beloved presidents…a man that pulled a nation together as civil war tore…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/20Apr17-Osama-of-Jordan-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)If you were ever fascinated in the adventures of Harrison Ford playing Indiana Jones, then you have definitely seen this…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/19Apr17-Osama-of-Jordan-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s estimated that about 40% of American do not know how to swim.  Today I’ll take you to a place…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/18Apr17-Osama-of-Jordan-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we interview a gentlemen named Osama.  He laughs because that name may bring certain images to mind for an…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/03/14Apr17-Isreal-Easter-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)The Church of the Holy Sepulcher contains the site of Jesus’ crucifixion, burial and resurrection.  Several denominations have a presence…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/03/13Apr17-Isreal-Easter-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Holy Week is a time when Christians reflect on the death and resurrection of Christ.  The events of Easter week…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/03/12Apr17-Isreal-Easter-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Most people would consider the country of Syria to be a dangerous place right now.  However, here, along this country’s…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/03/11Apr17-Ocmulgee-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It this country…the U.S. Capitol is the place where laws are made…but 1000 years ago…it was perhaps this earth lodge…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/03/10Apr17-Ocmulgee-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most of what we know about this group of people comes from the mounds they built all across the U.S. …

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/03/07Apr17-Oblong-Illinois-Oil-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Just south of Interstate 70 in southeast Illinois, you may begin to see some unusual sights popping up and down…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/03/06Apr17-Oblong-Illinois-Oil-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There was a time when the farmers of southeastern Illinois found something far more profitable on their land than corn…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/03/05Apr17-Hico-Texas-Chocolatier-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What is the busiest time of year for a chocolate shop?  You can probably guess a couple of holidays will…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/03/04Apr17-Hico-Texas-Chocolatier-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It is perhaps an unexpected business to find on the streets of Hico, Texas.  It is a place some might…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/03/03Apr17-Hico-Texas-Chocolatier-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It all began with a 4-h project in a rural area about an hour outside of Texas.  Fast forward about…