Category: American Countryside
The Portage at Portage
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Fox-River-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)It is still revered as one of the most difficult canal building projects ever undertaken–a project to tame a rapidly…
Mistaking Wisconsin for China
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/12Nov10-Fox-River-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Wisconsin and China are nearly a half a world from each other on the globe. So, it?s hard to imagine…
Your Face on the Side of a Semi
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Fred-Mares-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Each of the communities that we call home can claim outstanding individuals who go the extra mile when it comes…
A Helpful Smile in Every Aisle
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Fred-Mares-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Image a man who speaks over ten languages, can play multiple musical instruments and serenade customers with his wonderful voice….
Service With A Smile
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Fred-Mares-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)As many of you know, I travel to many parts of the nation to speak to a variety of groups….
Saugus Iron Works
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Saugus-Iron-Works-2010.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 939.8KB)It is a factory that began operation over a century before England’s colonies became the United State of America. We…
The Battle of Cedar Creek
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Cedar-Creek-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)There are nearly 400 national park sites in the United States. Today we visit one of the newest in the…
Burning the Fields
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Cedar-Creek-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Farmer’s crops can fall prey to the elements of mother nature. Heat, hail, wind and much more can destroy a…
Belle Grove Plantation
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Belle-Grove-Plantation.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Our history books tell us the south had many slave holding plantations in the years leading up to the Civil…
Election Day 2010
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Voting-2010.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Today we may not think much about the way we vote, unless a close contest causes us to have to…
What’s behind the “Spook” Light?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Spook-Light-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)People like to have answers, and perhaps that’s what makes this phenomena so interesting. There seems to be no explaining…
The “Spook” Light
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Spook-Light-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)I don’t care for stories about evil and gruesomeness at Halloween, yet a spooky tale may be in order. For…
Oceanfront Property in Arizona
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Yuma-Arizona-History-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)George Strait once sang that he had some oceanfront property in Arizona and if you’d buy that he’d throw the…
A Ferry Crossing in the Desert
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Yuma-Arizona-History-21.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Before bridges crossed rivers, communities often relied upon ferries to carry people and supplies. In some cases, those ferry operators…
An Oasis in the Desert
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Yuma-Arizona-History-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Yuma, Arizona is in the Sonora dessert. The annual average rainfall is about three inches per year. So it is…
Pawnee Bill
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Pawnee-Bill-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 954.3KB)It may have seemed this famous western showman had married the wrong woman. After all, his bride was a city…
The Last National Convention
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/22Oct10-Larry-Case-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)“Being older than the rest of you I’m asked to advise you from time to time as the need arises…..”…
Dr. Larry Case’s Most Memorable Day
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/21Oct10-Larry-Case-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Dr. Larry Case became National FFA Advisor in 1984, but perhaps his most memorable day as an advisor at any…
“Here By the Owl…”
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/20Oct10-Larry-Case-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)The National FFA Convention is in Indianapolis this week, and this will be the last such event for Dr. Larry…
June McCarroll’s Lasting Legacy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/18Oct10-June-McCarroll.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Today you could get a ticket if you don’t drive on your side of the road. Worse yet, you could…
