Category: American Countryside
The Oldest House
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/09/St-Augustine-Oldest-House.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:31 — 2.3MB)(St. Augustine, Florida) – Some people may purchase older homes and restore them to their original beauty. But when it…
Strong Man Steve Schmidt
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/09/Strong-Man-Steve.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 954.7KB)(Leslie, Missouri)–Every dentist that has ever advised not to crush ice or hard candy with one’s teeth will not want…
Teaching Small Farming Methods That Work
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/09/Free-Range-Chickens-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)When Herman’s son brought home an antiquated animal production book that he happened to find in his high school ag…
Free Range Poultry
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/09/Free-Range-Chickens-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.8MB)This poultry producer wouldn’t say his goal is to take on the big boys in the chicken world and win,…
Herm’s 1930s Farm in the 21st Century
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/09/Free-Range-Chickens-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Herman’s farm may look like it is cut out of the 1930’s, but when you dig deeper, you find that…
Antietam Battle
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/09/Antietam-Battle-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Even by today’s standards, the cost of this battle was staggering. It was a 12 hour conflict that saw a…
Chad Hymas: From Salt Lake to Las Vegas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/09/Chad-Hymas-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 960.2KB)You can make a quick drive from Salt Lake City to Las Vegas or an even shorter flight if you…
Antietam Battle’s Blood Lane
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/09/Antietam-Battle-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 953.1KB)The fields were filled with ears of corn nearing harvest during September, but the kernels would never be shelled. In…
Knowing Someone Else’s Battle Plan
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/09/Antietam-Battle-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 950.0KB)Imagine going into a battle and having the enemy’s plan of attach in your hands. It sounds like it would…
Battle at Antietam
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/09/Antietam-Battle-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 953.7KB)You may have heard stories of family members fighting against one another during the Civil War. At this famous battlefield,…
Preparing for the Iditarod
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/09/Iditarod-Headquarters-Reddington-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Some sports not only require thousands of hours of training, they also require a hefty financial investment. For those who…
1156 Miles on a Sled
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/08/Iditarod-Headquarters-Reddington-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 953.1KB)Some athletes train for a marathon–a race just over 26 miles in length. This athlete’s family trains for an event…
Family Ties and the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/08/Iditarod-Headquarters-Reddington-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 948.8KB)For the next three features here on the American Countryside you’re in for a real treat as we discover what…
The Palmer, Alaska Farmer’s Market
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/08/Palmer-Alaska-Farmers-Market.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 952.9KB)When you think of fertile farmland, you perhaps think of a location with deep rich soil in the Midwest. But…
Silver Moon Feeds
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/08/Silver-Moon-Feeds.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 954.7KB)You can buy feed from a lot of different places, but what makes Silver Moon Feeds special is how this…
Butte, Montana Speakeasy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/08/Butte-Speakeasy-2009.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 954.7KB)Beginning in 1920, the 18th Amendment made the manufacturing and consumption of alcohol illegal until it was repealed in 1933….
Battle of the Hemp Bales
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/08/Battle-of-the-Hemp-Bales.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)The bullet holes still scar the inside and outside of this home, a place that was a hospital during a…
Vermont’s Only National Park
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/08/Marsh-Billings-Rockafeller-NHP-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)You’ve heard of Yellowstone and Yosemite, but try naming the State of Vermont’s only national park…..
The Marsh, Billings, Rockafeller National Historic Park
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/08/Marsh-Billings-Rockafeller-NHP-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Many farms today use terraces, waterways and conservation tillage to protect soil and water. However, few people can tell you…
The Carthage Jail
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/08/Carthage-Illinois-Jail.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Jails aren’t supposed to be a thing of beauty, but the tanned limestone walls of this 1839 jailhouse in Carthage,…