http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/13Jun12-Joe-Jeffrey-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)When the first residents of this area began building bridges to cross the nearby river, they found they often needed…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/12Jun12-St-Gaudens.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)It’s New Hampshire’s only National Park Service site, named after the man who’s work it preserves…..

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/06/11Jun12-Bottle-Tree.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Elmer Long doesn’t manage a national forest, but it may be the most unique collection of trees in the nation….

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/08Jun12-Chain-of-Rocks-Bridge-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Every two years the city of St. Louis gets an added route to cross the Mississippi River from Missouri to…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/07Jun12-Chain-of-Rocks-Bridge-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)The development of not only cars, but roads themselves, has improved safety and lessened highway fatalities.  But in the 1920s,…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/06Jun12-D-Day-Memorial-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)It’s been nearly seven decades since allied troops landed at Normandy on D-day.  Over four thousand men gave their lives…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/06/05Jun12-D-Day-Memorial-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Many of those who served in World War II actually joined the armed forces before the tragedy at Pearl Harbor….

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/06/04Jun12-Bob-Garst-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Bob Garst spent 22 years in the armed forces.  Today he is retired, but much of his job is simply…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/01Jun12-Bob-Garst-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)It’s estimated that over three million military men and women served in Vietnam and neighboring nations during the Vietnam War….

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/31May12-Santa-Monica-Pier-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Dan Rice has traveled the length of Route 66 over two dozen times.  It might surprise people that his original…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/30May12-Santa-Monica-Pier-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Today this sign on Santa Monica Pier attracts a steady stream of travelers who pose by it.  Interestingly, it’s a…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/29May12-Santa-Monica-Pier-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)In 1926 Route 66 ended at the corner of 7th and Broadway in downtown Los Angles, California.  Today, most people…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/28May12-Wounded-Warrior-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)On Memorial Day we remember our friends and family who have passed.  It is a day of tribute and remembrance…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/25May12-Wounded-Warrior-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Soldiers may encounter all kinds of obstacles on the battlefield. What Mary did not realize was the great challenges they…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/24May12-William-Paca.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)As the colonies approached the year 1776, old social ties were sometimes stretched thin.  But in the capitol of Maryland,…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/23May12-Boonville-County-Jail-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Occasionally there are nationally known celebrities that break the law and must serve some jail time.  Those cases, of course,…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/22May12-Boonville-County-Jail-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)The historic jail in Boonville, Missouri was built to house those convicted of crimes in the county.  However, it also…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/21May12-Camp-Algona-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)It’s hard to imagine being held as a prisoner of war and then, after the war, immigrating to the country…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/18May12-Camp-Algona-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Over the years, you’ve heard us feature some towns in the heartland of America that served as POW camps during…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/17May12-Globetrotter-Lodge.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Many people would love to live in the Austrian Alps.  This couple decided the wide open spaces of eastern Arizona…