Category: American Countryside
An Early Tourist Trap
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/14Jul15-St-Thomas-Pirates-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)If a vacation spot tried to sell you all kinds of tacky trinkets and charged you a mint to enter…
Pirates Roaming the Seas in Search of Treasure
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/13Jul15-St-Thomas-Pirates-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)We’ve all heard stories of pirates roaming the seas in search of golden treasure. It’s true there were men roaming…
More With Holocaust Survivor Judy Straus
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/10Jul15-Judy-Straus-5.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)We conclude our story with Holocaust survivor Judy Straus. If you’ve missed any of her story of tragedy and triumph,…
Lives In Jeopardy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/09Jul15-Judy-Straus-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)As the end of World War II in Europe drew ever closer, the Germans stepped up the pace of sending…
Nazi Death Camps Through the Eyes of a Child
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/08Jul15-Judy-Straus-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The scenes from Nazi death camps were staggering. Now imagine experiencing those horros through the eyes of a child. That…
The Nazis Invade Home
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/07Jul15-Judy-Straus-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The Straus family left Germany in the 1930s to escape the rising power of Adolf Hitler. Then, in the early…
Holocaust Survivor Judy Straus
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/06Jul15-Judy-Straus-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)This week we visit with Judy Straus, a survivor of the Holocaust Her story is one of tragedy and hope…and…
A Reminder of the Cost of Freedom
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/03Jul15-Tomb-Guard-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Every independence day we celebrate our freedom. This soldier is reminded of the cost of that freedom…as he protects the…
Wearing The Uniform
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/02Jul15-Tomb-Guard-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Some jobs require you to wear a uniform. Imagine a job where that uniform had to be worn with perfection…where…
Campaigning Against Another Player
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/01Jul15-Carl-Mays-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Ty Cobb was a great baseball player, but he was also known as a guy who would bend and break…
A Baseball Career Not Recognized By Cooperstown
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/30Jun15-Carl-Mays-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Carl Mays had a career worthy of the baseball hall of fame, however many in his hometown will tell you…
A Gun Without Bullets
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/29Jun15-Carl-Mays-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Some boys grow up hunting animals in the woods. That was the case for Carl Mays, but he didn’t use…
The Colville Indian Reservation
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/26Jun15-Colville-Indian-Reservation-2015.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The name of their current tribal home is not an ancestral name, but rather the name of a fort where…
A Trip Off the Beaten Path
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/25Jun15-Grand-Coulee-Dam-2015.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It is the largest hydroelectric dam in the nation…spanning just a few feet shy of one mile across and over…
The 1930’s Largest Lake in the World
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/24Jun15-Lake-of-the-Ozarks-2015.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In the 1930s it became the largest lake in the world…and interestingly, that record setter was nestled in the undeveloped…
Possibly the Only Expert in the World
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/23Jun15-Hair-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)If you have a valuable heirloom you’d like to sell, you might see an expert appraiser to assess its value….
Curator of A Unique Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/22Jun15-Hair-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)You might not picture our founding fathers wearing broaches or other jewelry. However, this lady says it’s just one of…
An Odd Method of Tracking A Family History
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/19Jun15-Hair-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Today many people like to trace their family tree. Before the age of photos and computerized records, there was another…
An Airplane Born From Tragedy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/17Jun15-Strategic-Air-Museum-Pilot-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s a plane that was born from tragedy, and interesting, a plane that would go on to haul millions of…
Living in Death Valley
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/16Jun15-Death-Valley-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Very few people have attempted to live inside Death Valley National Park, but one that did built one of the…
