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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/31Oct16-Sacramento-History-Underground-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It was just an ordinary field until the winter of 1862.  That’s when floodwaters pushed onto the land and a…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/28Oct16-Sacramento-History-Underground-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ve heard of Noah’s flood.  This city had it worse it terms of numbers of straight days of rain.  What…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/27Oct16-They-Also-Ran-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)On the day the latest U.S. president is sworn into office, the runner-up will receive their own ceremony just a…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/26Oct16-They-Also-Ran-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This man ran for president five times and never won.  Some may call him the “biggest loser.”  Here it just…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/25Oct16-They-Also-Ran-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)If you competed in a race and didn’t win, you might be labeled an “also ran.”  But in this town,…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/24Oct16-June-McCarrol.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Today you could get a ticket if you don’t drive on your side of the road.  But in 1917, Dr….

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/21Oct16-Museums-in-a-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Did you ever imagine you might turn a collection into your own museum?  This man has museums within museums.  In…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/20Oct16-Harold-Bell-Wright.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of Harold Bell Wright.  He was one of the top author’s a century…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/19Oct16-Branson-Worlds-Largest-Toy-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The parents of every young kids, and some old ones, know they love their toys.  Tom Beck set out to…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/18Oct16-Branson-Worlds-Largest-Toy-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What should you do with your time when you retire?  Tom and Wendy Beck took an adventure that resulted in…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/17Oct16-Sacagawea-2016.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)She is probably the most well known Native American woman in our country’s history…a lady vital to the success of…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/14Oct16-Dicks-Five-and-Ten-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)This is the type of store you can get lost in.  Not because the layout is a maze, but rather…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/13Oct16-Dicks-Five-and-Ten-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)An average Wal-Mart SuperCenter has 142,000 items.  Steve Hartley runs a store much smaller in size, yet carries over 75,000…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/12Oct16-Dicks-Five-and-Ten-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)You might think Steve is operating a business that died long ago.  After all, almost all the other similar stores…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/11Oct16-Christopher-Columbus-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)If you told Columbus’ crew to hang on to the “bitter end,” they probably would not take you up on…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/10Oct16-Christopher-Columbus-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We’ve all learned that Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 14 hundred and 92.  We know he had three ships,…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/07Oct16-Matthew-Edel-Blacksmith-Shop-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)His business is truly a time capsule.  When Matthew Edel died in 1940, the doors were closed and no one…

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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/05Oct16-Meers-Oklahoma-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Just northwest of Lawton…in the Wichita Mountains of Okalahoma, you will find a town named Meers.  Its one business is…