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Alaska’s Famous Ice
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/11Nov09-Alaska-Glaciers-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Alaska has plenty to offer visitors when it comes to natural beauty. One of the most popular attractions for tourists…
Fire In the Form of Vegetables
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/08/03Oct17-Hatch-Chile.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you play with fire your liable to get burned. But on Jim Lidle’s farm, fire is what they grow. …
The Little Giant
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/08/02Oct17-Stepen-Douglas.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Abraham Lincoln led the country through the Civil War…but it was this man who defeated him for the senate just…
All Kinds of Currencies
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/09/26Sept17-Dozens-of-Currencies.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)One, five, ten, twenty? Those are the denominations of bills we normally see when paying for items. Now imagine that…
Part of Chicago’s Famous Park Landscape
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/09/25Sept17-Lincoln-Parks-Lilly-Pool.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)This famous architect was hired to design one of Chicago’s famous park landscapes. No sooner did he design it than…
The King of Smokejumpers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/09/22Sept17-Smokejumper-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You might be a little crazy to jump out of an airplane and fight a fire. So what does it…
Smokejumpers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/09/21Sept17-Smokejumper-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When a forest fire flames up in a remote area, it may be Dan Ryan’s crew that is called in…
A Career of Jumping Out of Planes and Fighting Fires
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/09/20Sept17-Smokejumper-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine a job that combines jumping out of airplanes and fighting fires. Now imagine you want to make it your…
Pastures Full of Danger
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/08/15Sep17-Wright-Brothers-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Wright Brothers made their first flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. However, it was the farmers around Dayton that…
Before First Flight
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/08/14Sep17-Wright-Brothers-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Although Kitty Hawk, North Carolina received most of the attention regarding the Wright Brothers first flight, it was this Ohio…
The Top Mounted Military Man in the Nation
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/08/08Sep17-Nathan-Boone-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Before their was a U.S. cavalry, this man was noted to be the top mounted military man in the nation. …
The Baby of the Boone Family
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/08/07Sep17-Nathan-Boone-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most of us remember the frontiersman and explorer, Daniel Boone from our history books. However, we may not be familiar…
When The Teeth Are The Main Attraction
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/08/04Sep17-Strongman-Steve.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Every dentist that has ever advised not to crush ice or hard candy with one’s teeth will not want to…
Stories of a Pioneer Girl Growing Up
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/08/30Aug17-Laura-Ingels-Wilder-Home-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It is hard to imagine it happened mostly by accident…eight books and a ten year television series all based on…
Childhood Stories
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/08/29Aug17-Laura-Ingels-Wilder-Home-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)She never set out to become a famous author…she was simply writing down some stories from her childhood. But those…
Pheasants In Arizona
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/08/28Aug17-Arizona-Pheasant-Grower.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most people don’t go pheasant hunting in Phoenix, AZ. But if you to come to Molly’s farm, you will perhaps…
Hotel Rooms for $11 A Night
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/08/18Aug17-Wagon-Wheel-Motel.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Connie Echols admits she was crazy when she purchased the business just down the street. She had no idea what…
A Grand Mansion For the Family
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/07/28Jul17-Hunter-Dawson-Home.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)In the days just ahead of the Civil War, one prominent young lady in New Madrid, Missouri built a grand…
Grinding Teeth Over the Declaration of Independence
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/04Jul17-Independence-Day-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Thomas Jefferson helped write the Declaration of Independence…but he wasn’t happy with the final product. Why was Jefferson grinding his…
The Unplanned Writer of the Declaration of Independence
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/03Jul17-Independence-Day-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Thomas Jefferson took an important role in writing our Declaration of Independence, but most people don’t know he wasn’t even…
