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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/10Aug15-Monument-Valley-Bussing.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Some students must ride a bus to school.  But imagine a school district where a student might spend nearly six…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/07Aug15-Cottonwood-Falls-Courthouse-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A county of only about three thousand people was tasked with a major challenge.  They needed to raise about $4…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/05Aug15-Cottonwood-Falls-Courthouse-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It only cost $40,000 to build this architectural masterpiece.  Of course, that was about 150 years ago, but the small…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/06Aug15-Cottonwood-Falls-Courthouse-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)I’ve seen many courthouses in my journeys, but this one has to be one of the most amazing.  Beautiful inside…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/04Aug15-Movie-Manor-Motel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When you check into this hotel, you’ll find the name of a movie star on your door.  In fact, you…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/03Aug15-Movie-Manor-Motel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Many folks have fallen asleep on their couch while watching a movie.  In the case of one man in Monte…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/31Jul15-Ed-Davidson-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most prison camps wouldn’t want their detainees digging tunnels to freedom. But at Ed’s camp, it was a way to…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/30Jul15-Ed-Davidson-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Ed believed he was a well informed pilot flying for the United States. Then the German captured him and told…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/29Jul15-Ed-Davidson-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Ed Davidson got to cross the Atlantic on the Queen Mary…but his trip wasn’t for pleasure, for he made that…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/28Jul15-Concordia-Brown-Grand-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Most of us recognize the name Napoleon Bonaparte as that of a famous French general. But for the residents of…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/27Jul15-Concordia-Brown-Grand-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Today you don’t see many opera stars performing in rural America. But a century ago, the name on many buildings…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/24Jul15-Concordia-POW-Camp-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)At first glance, housing enemy soldiers in low security camps in the Midwest may not have seemed wise.  But for…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/23Jul15-Concordia-POW-Camp-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)During World War II thousands of enemy soldiers taken as prisoners of war where housed in hastily built camps in…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/22Jul15-Concordia-POW-Camp-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When the Allies began the fight against Germany in World War II, they began to take prisoners of war.  Some…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/21Jul15-Alcatraz-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This island has some of the best views of San Francisco Bay and the city itself…yet most people didn’t want…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/20Jul15-Alcatraz-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)At one time it was one of the nation’s most important forts…but that’s not how people would know it today…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/17Jul15-JFK-Birthplace-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)There was no doubt in Fitz’s mind that Joe was not the man for his daughter. The story of what…

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