Category: American Countryside
Sequoia
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/02/Sequoia-2010.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 952.2KB)His work helped teach almost an entire nation to read and write within a matter of just a few years….
Temple Grandin
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/02/Temple-Grandin-HBO.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 960.8KB)Many people in agriculture know her name well. This weekend, the world will get to know the subject of a…
The Buckhorn Saloon
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/02/Buckhorn-Saloon.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 956.1KB)When people can’t pay cash for items they want, they may try to barter. That’s what this saloon did; what…
The National Cattlemens Beef Association’s MBA Program
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/02/NCBAs-MBA-Program.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 949.2KB)Many universities provide MBA degrees, but the one you can get from this organization will cost you nothing and perhaps…
Punxsutawney Phil
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/02/Groundhog-Day-2010.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 954.1KB)He’s by the far the oldest and wisest ground hog in the nation and every February 2nd, you can be…
The Point Loma Lighthouse
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/02/Point-Loma-Lighthouse-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 951.0KB)Not long after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Americans began to see and hear things–things like Japanese tanks, subs and…
Sunset Volcano Crater National Monument
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/01/Sunset-Volcano.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 957.1KB)Although it’s been about a millennium since this place rumbled to life, the mountain still speaks of the event that…
Mike Rowe: Dirty Jobs
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/01/Mike-Rowe-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 960.4KB)Mike Rowe is known for the dirty jobs he has to perform. But how many times do those jobs really…
Dirty Jobs
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/01/Mike-Rowe-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 957.8KB)Some people believe they have bad jobs. Dirty jobs. Jobs no one else would want to have. So, now they…
Sun Valley Ski Resort
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/01/Sun-Valley-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)The Union Pacific Railroad had the perfect new resort to sell to its passengers. The only problem was convincing them…
Technology at a Ski Resort
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/01/Sun-Valley-Resort-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 955.1KB)When you need new technology at a ski resort you of course look to someone in the railroad industry to…
Looking for a Resort Location
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/01/Sun-Valley-Resort-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 959.2KB)This town got it’s start because a railroad was looking for a new destination to transport passengers. What resulted is…
Menno Attema
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/01/Minnow-Altama-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 951.0KB)Imagine growing up on a farm and then in your early twenties traveling on your own a half a world…
Farming on Two Continents
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/01/Minnow-Altama-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 960.2KB)As you know, AgriGold has been our sponsor of the American Countryside for the past few weeks, and I recently…
Hansen Wheel and Wagon
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/01/Wheel-and-Wagon.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 950.0KB)If American automakers are struggling to make ends meet, perhaps they should meet one of the country’s premiere wagon builders….
Frederick Douglass
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/01/Frederick-Douglass.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 957.1KB)Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a national holiday, but this man is noted by some to be the grandfather…
Inventor Elwood Haynes
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/01/Elwood-Haynes-2010.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 957.8KB)Who invented the first automobile? You might be surprised that it wasn’t Henry Ford, but this man from Kokomo, Indiana…
The San Diego Veterans Center
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/01/San-Diego-Veterans-Center.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 956.1KB)The plan was to tear down San Deigo’s old navy hospital. A new hospital was built, but portions of the…
Tunnelling to Pass the Time
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/01/Ed-Davidson-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Most prison camps wouldn’t want their detainees digging tunnels to freedom, but at Ed’s camp, it was a way to…
A World War 2 Pilot and POW
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/01/Ed-Davidson-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.9MB)Ed believed he was a well informed pilot flying for the United States. Then the German captured him and told…