http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/04Nov13-Ralph-Drennen.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)An FFA advisor was driving his students to a competition when the bus broke down with twenty eight students and…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/01Nov13-St-Louis-History-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Daniel Boone is one of the most famous American frontiersmen. But when he crossed the Mississippi River, he went to…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/31Oct13-St-Louis-History-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)It’s one of the oldest and largest cities on the Mississippi River. Although some may have heard of names like…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/30Oct13-Atomic-Clock-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)If I said I’d be back in a second, I’d literally be back in 9,192,631,770 cycles of a cesium atom. …

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/29Oct13-Atomic-Clock-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)For most of human history, the movement of the sun, moon and planets has been used to measure time.  But…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/28Oct13-Great-Locamotive-Chase.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s called the Great Locomotive Chase – an event that occurred in 1862 when a secret force of Union soldiers…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/25Oct13-Fort-Clatsop-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)It was their goal…yet it was only the half way point of the trip…It was the Pacific Ocean that the…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/24Oct13-Fort-Clatsop-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)After spotting the Pacific Ocean on November 7th, 1805, Lewis and Clark searched for a suitable location for their winter…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/23Oct13-Glurs-Tavern-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)One thousand dollar bills were last printed in 1945 and they were officially discontinued in 1969.  You can still find…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/22Oct13-Glurs-Tavern-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)If you drove past Glur’s Tavern in Columbus, Nebraska you might not give it a second thought.  However, if you…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/21Oct13-Balloon-Bombs.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It was a foreign attack on the US mainland, yet few have heard the story about Japan’s balloon bomb and…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/18Oct13-New-Philadelphia.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today it is difficult to find much of the town of New Philadelphia, Illinois.  However, the town’s place in the…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/17Oct13-Spy-Museum-The-Thing.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)It’s often referred to as simply, “The Thing.”  That “thing” was a piece of equipment used to acquire secrets from…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/16Oct13-Spy-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)What’s it take to become a word class spy?  The answers and the job description may just surprise you.  Today…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/15Oct13-Spy-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Today we spent time with a veteran of the CIA.  In fact, he spent over two decades in clandestine operations…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/14Oct13-St-Crois-Salt-River-Bay-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Columbus reached the Americas in 1492.  He returned to Spain and put together a much larger party of ships and…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/11Oct13-St-Crois-Salt-River-Bay-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may remember that Columbus sailed the ocean blue in fourteen hundred and ninety-two.  But what else do you know…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/10Oct13-St-Crois-Salt-River-Bay-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Today we head to the easternmost point in United States territory.  It’s a place that was inhabited for over 1500…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/09Oct13-San-Juan-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This impressive fort has stood watch over the Atlantic for nearly 400 years.  For some of those sentry’s who scanned…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/08Oct13-San-Juan-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you are looking for a fun and relatively inexpensive Caribbean getaway, without leaving the U.S., you might consider heading…