Posted in American Countryside Ohio

Shooting Apples Off Heads

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/07/11Jul18-Annie-Oakley-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Perhaps you’ve heard of someone shooting an apple off of someone’s head or hitting a cigarette in someone’s mouth.  It…

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Posted in American Countryside Ohio

Amazing and Totally Unexpected Skills

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/07/10Jul18-Annie-Oakley-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Her skills were amazing and totally unexpected.  A young lady from the frontier was outshooting men of all ages and…

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Posted in American Countryside Ohio

Greenville, Ohio’s Most Popular Person

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/07/09Jul18-Annie-Oakley-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)She is arguably the most famous person to grow up in Greenville, Ohio.  You’ve most likely heard of her and…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Tennessee

The Story of Daddy Bryson

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/06Jul18-Smokey-Mountain-Railroad-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)His name was Daddy Bryson…and he became one of the best-known train engineers in the Smoky Mountains…not because of his…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Tennessee

Logging to Create A Park

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/05Jul18-Smokey-Mountain-Railroad-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Visitors to Smoky Mountain National Park can wander miles of trails that meander through endless forests.  It wasn’t that long…

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Posted in American Countryside American Revolution Best of Pennsylvania

A Bell That Took Time to Become Famous

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/04Jul18-Liberty-Bell.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)July 4th, 1776.  It’s Indpendence Day in the United States and one of the symbols of our freedom is the…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Pennsylvania

When George Washington Surrendered

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/03Jul18-Fort-Necessity-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was the only time General Washington ever surrendered an army…and that just may have everything to do with July…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Pennsylvania

Shaping Independence

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/02Jul18-Fort-Necessity-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s a war most American know little about, yet it’s a conflict that shaped America’s war for Independence just a…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of California

Naturalist John Muir

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/29Jun18-John-Muir-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Over a century ago, President Roosevelt was so interested in preserving natural wonders, he traveled all the way to California…

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Nature Closer to Home

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/28Jun18-John-Muir-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When this man’s trip to the Amazon fell through, he instead began to travel this country to see all that…

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Posted in American Countryside South Dakota

An Unusual Museum

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/27Jun18-Vinegar-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When you pull up to this small building, you may be surprised to learn that people are making detours just…

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Posted in American Countryside South Dakota

Knowledgeable About Vinegar

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/26Jun18-Vinegar-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a product you can find named in the Bible and in ancient texts.  However, it’s something that is familiar…

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Posted in American Countryside South Dakota

Putting the Town on the Map

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/25Jun18-Vinegar-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Lawrence Diggs is not you average citizen.  If he seemed out-of-place here, he certainly wasn’t for long as the residents…

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Posted in Alabama American Countryside

An American Idol

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/22Jun18-American-Idol-Garett-Miles.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You never know who you might meet when doing an interview.  On a recent trip to Alabama to a historic…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Montana

A Place Known As Traveler’s Rest

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/21Jun18-Travelers-Rest-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was a meeting place, a point were Lewis and Clark twice stopped during very important points in their journey…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Montana

The Lolo Trail

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/20Jun18-Travelers-Rest-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was the most difficult climb in their journey west–the Rocky mountains of Montana and Idaho.  We hit the Lolo…

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Posted in American Countryside South Dakota

Poker Alice

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/19Jun18-Rapid-City-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)She was simply known as Poker Alice.  She was an expert card player who used to begin each game by…

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Posted in American Countryside South Dakota

Rapid City’s Historical Museum

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/15Jun18-Rapid-City-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we say hello to our listeners on KOTA in Rapid City, South Dakota.  Residents there know of an amazing…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Texas

Alibates Flint

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/14Jun18-Alibates-Flint.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s called Alibates flint…and this spot in the panhandle of Texas is the only place in the world where you…

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Posted in American Countryside South Dakota

The Discovery of Black Hills Gold

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/18Jun18-Rapid-City-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Perhaps you’ve heard of Black Hills gold.  Its discovery rapidly changed life in today’s western South Dakota…

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