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Misery Among Beauty
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/21Jul15-Alcatraz-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This island has some of the best views of San Francisco Bay and the city itself…yet most people didn’t want…
The Story of One Very Famous Rock
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/20Jul15-Alcatraz-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)At one time it was one of the nation’s most important forts…but that’s not how people would know it today…
Not the Man For His Daughter
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/17Jul15-JFK-Birthplace-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)There was no doubt in Fitz’s mind that Joe was not the man for his daughter. The story of what…
What Looks Like Another Street in Suburban Boston
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/16Jul15-JFK-Birthplace-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Beals Street looks to be just another street in suburban Boston. But one house here is special, as it’s a…
A Reminder of the Cost of Freedom
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/03Jul15-Tomb-Guard-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Every independence day we celebrate our freedom. This soldier is reminded of the cost of that freedom…as he protects the…
Wearing The Uniform
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/02Jul15-Tomb-Guard-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Some jobs require you to wear a uniform. Imagine a job where that uniform had to be worn with perfection…where…
Living in Death Valley
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/16Jun15-Death-Valley-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Very few people have attempted to live inside Death Valley National Park, but one that did built one of the…
The 20 Mule Team
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/15Jun15-Death-Valley-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Some of you might remember 20 mule team borax and the old episodes of the Death Valley TV show. Today…
How Death Valley Earned Its Name
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/12Jun15-Death-Valley-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Because Death Valley is such a difficult environment to support plant and animal life…most suppose that is how it earned…
A Place of Beauty and Danger
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/11Jun15-Death-Valley-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)On the border of California and Nevada you will find a place that has daunted countless travelers for the past…
Demonstrating a New Rifle at the White House
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/03Jun15-Spencer-Rifle.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Imagine that you had developed a new type of rifle that could helpful to the US Military. How would you…
The World’s Greatest Athlete
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/02Jun15-Jim-Thorpe.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In 1912, he was proclaimed “The World’s Greatest Athlete” and some of his Olympic records stood two decades later. He…
Bartering Is What Built the Place
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/01Jun15-Buckhorn-Saloon.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When people can’t pay cash for items they want, they may try to barter. That’s what this saloon did, and…
West of the Mississippi to Illinois
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/26May15-Kaskaskia-2015.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Today we head west of the Mississippi to the State of Illinois. Yes, west of the Mississippi to the State of…
A Man of Legend
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/25May15-Harpers-Ferry-2015-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)He is a man of legend…a man whose story may be larger than life…a renegade who history now looks upon…
One of the Busiest and Important Towns in the Nation
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/22May15-Harpers-Ferry-2015-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Today the place is almost a ghost town. But over a century ago it was one of the busiest and…
How a Sixteen Year Old Saved the United States
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/21May15-Wheeling-Revolution-2015-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Where did the American Revolution end? Why Wheeling, West Virginia of course–when a sixteen year old girl saved the newly…
A String A Battles on the Western Frontier
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/20May15-Wheeling-Revolution-2015-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It’s a chapter of the American Revolution that few know today–a string of battles fought on what was then the…
Facing What Seemed to be a Lose-Lose Decision
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/19May15-Wheeling-Legends-2015.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Samuel McCulluck faced what seemed to be a lose-lose decision. Either surrender to his enemy and face certain death…or plunge…
One Bookend of the Lincoln Presidency
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/07May15-Abraham-Lincoln-Inauguration.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)On the surface, this old train station in Springfield, Illinois may not seem to be that important. However, when you…
