http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/26Jan15-Bates-County-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In the decade leading up to the Civil War, tensions rose along Kansas’ border with Missouri. Even if one tried…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/23Jan15-Penneytown-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Virginia Houston holds a unique distinction. She was the last child born in Penneytown. It’s a fact that holds much…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/22Jan15-Penneytown-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)Establishing a new city can take plenty of planning. Now imagine trying to begin that new town when others are…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/21Jan15-Jim-the-Wonder-Dog-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Any betting man or woman would love to know the winners before placing a wager. The people of Marshall, Missouri…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/20Jan15-Jim-the-Wonder-Dog-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)Many people have dogs and some of us have even taught our dogs to do tricks. But Sam had a…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/19Jan15-Jim-the-Wonder-Dog-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It all began quite by accident. A pup mysteriously arrived on a train, addressed to a man who loved to…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/16Jan15-War-in-the-Pacific-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)Getting an appointment to one of the military academies can be difficult. But Mike Hagee had a hometown connection that…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/15Jan15-War-in-the-Pacific-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Where is the War in the Pacific museum located? It stands to reason it would be next to the Pacific…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/14Jan15-Maui-Gold-Pineapple-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)There is perhaps nothing sweeter and more delicious to taste than a pineapple cut straight out of the field. Steve…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/13Jan15-Maui-Gold-Pineapple-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Gardeners and farmers are used to planting seed and then waiting in due time for their harvest. But for those…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/12Jan15-Maui-Gold-Pineapple-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)There once were thousands of acres in the Hawaiian islands devoted to growing pineapple. Much has changed over time. Today…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/09Jan15-Kauai-Farm-Bureau-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)Many seed companies have research stations in locations that can grow multiple crops each year.  However, one of those locations…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/08Jan15-Kauai-Farm-Bureau-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Many farmers must deal with conditions that are both hot and cold, wet and dry, tough and tougher.  So, on…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/07Jan15-Kahuka-Farms-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)The average American eats about 25 pounds of bananas each year.  It’s safe to say most of us can’t tell…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/06Jan15-Kahuka-Farms-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)American Countryside listeners recently had  a chance to tour agriculture in Hawaii.  One of the highlights was a farm growing…

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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/02Jan15-Best-of-2014-The-Rights-to-a-Cowboy-Song.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)In the 1930s a cowboy song began to get quite a bit of air time on radio stations.  But suddenly…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/01Jan15-Best-of-2014-Burning-the-White-House.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It was an act that seemed unthinkable.  Another nation’s army marched into the United States capital and burned its most…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/31Dec14-Best-of-2014-Navajo-Codetalker.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When World War II began, many men here in Navajo country volunteered for the armed forces.  Some of those men…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/30Dec14-Best-of-2014-Archduke-Ferdinand-Assassination.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s difficult for many of us to name many specific battles or events in World War I.  We may have…