http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/04Mar15-Tombstone-Arizona-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Most cemeteries have markers with a person’s name, date of birth and death, and little else.  Not so for many…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/25Nov14-Joe-Aggies-Cafe.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we’re at Joe & Aggie’s café, a restaurant that’s been serving up great meals for over 70 years now…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/24Nov14-Wigwam-Hotel.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you, your kids or even your grand kids have seen the movie Cars, then you probably remember the Cozy…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/10/07Nov14-Yuma-Arizona-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)George Strait once sang that he had some oceanfront property in Arizona and if you’d buy that he’d throw the…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/10/06Nov14-Yuma-Arizona-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Before bridges crossed rivers, communities often relied upon ferries to carry people and supplies. In some cases, those ferry operators…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/10/05Nov14-Yuma-Arizona-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Yuma, Arizona is in the Sonora dessert. The annual average rainfall is about three inches per year. So it is…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/16Jun14-Chandler-Arizona-Show-Pigs.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You don’t expect to see 400 hogs in the middle of a city, but that’s what’s happening in the Phoenix…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/05Jun14-Roy-Hawthorne-Navajo-Codetalker-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Roy Hawthorne had three brothers who had already volunteered for the Army.  So when Roy was 17, he too joined…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/04Jun14-Roy-Hawthorne-Navajo-Codetalker-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Our series with Navajo codetalker, Roy Hawthorne continues today.  Remember, you can hear the full interview on the Scenic Route…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/03Jun14-Roy-Hawthorne-Navajo-Codetalker-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When World War II began, many men here in Navajo country volunteered for the armed forces.  Some of those men…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/02Jun14-Roy-Hawthorne-Navajo-Codetalker-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This week you’ll be hearing a series of programs with World War II Navajo codetalker, Roy Hawthorne.  You can also…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/Navaho-Code-Talker-Roy-Hawthorne.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:01:24 — 42.2MB)Beginning in 1942, Navajo men began using their native language to send coded messages in combat during World War II. …

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/04/14May14-Holbrook-Petroglyphs-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)I’ve always enjoyed the chance to view Native American petroglyphs.  The ancient rock writing is fascinating, but it’s hard to…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/04/13May14-Holbrook-Petroglyphs-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)They’re called petroglyphs. They are carvings or drawings made into the stone from hundreds of years ago. We know little…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/04/12May14-Holbrook-Petroglyphs-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)Just outside Holbrook, Arizona you can find the remains of an old corral that once housed the herd of the…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/06/25Jun13-Goose-Eggs.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)We’ve all heard of the goose that laid the golden eggs. While it would be hard to find such a…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/25Apr13-Holocaust-Survivor-Search-Kreisberger-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine a scene in which a boy is wrenched from a mother’s arms…and is headed for certain death.  No doubt…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/24Apr13-Holocaust-Survivor-Search-Kreisberger-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)A diet of chocolate and potatoes is probably not the most balanced ration one can eat…but during World War II…it…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/23Apr13-Holocaust-Survivor-Search-Kreisberger-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)As World War II began, Search Kreisberger and his family struggled just to survive.  His miraculous story of holocaust survival…..

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/22Apr13-Holocaust-Survivor-Search-Kreisberger-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)His city bounced from one country’s control to another during World War II.  No matter who was in control…this young…