Category: Best of
A November Pardon for the Birds
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/26Nov14-Turkey-Pardon.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s one of the most controversial decisions that can be made in the legal system. The end of November has…
The Battle of Island Mound
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/21Nov14-Battle-of-Island-Mound.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)You may have never heard of the Battle of Island Mound, However the skirmish that took place here is still remembered…
Dressing For Success
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/14Nov14-Tyson-CEO-Donnie-Smith-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)How should you dress for work? It’s a question many businesses must address with their employees. Here, the answer may seem…
Influencing People in Agriculture
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/13Nov14-Tyson-CEO-Donnie-Smith-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:57 — 2.0MB)How do you influence people in agriculture? To some, it may seem like an odd question. However the answer is one…
Oceanfront Property in Arizona
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…
A Bridge in the Desert
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…
A Trip to Yuma, Arizona
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…
One of the Most Sobering Stories of World War II
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/10/31Oct14-USS-Indianapolis-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When Japan surrendered to the U.S., Americans rejoiced to know that the conflict was coming to an end. Buried in the…
One of the Worst Disasters in US Naval History
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/10/30Oct14-USS-Indianapolis-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was one of the worst disasters at sea in U.S. naval history. The loss of life combined with the horrific…
Top Secret Cargo Across the Pacific
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/10/29Oct14-USS-Indianapolis-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)As August of 1945 neared, one ship took a top secret cargo across the Pacific. But for the men of the…
One of the Most Important Stories of Survival Ever Told
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/10/28Oct14-USS-Indianapolis-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)He grew up in the heart of the Midwest, but during world war II, his life at sea would become one…
Success At An Early Age
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/10/27Oct14-Major-General-Arnold-Fields-2014.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Major General Arnold Fields spent 34 years in the Marines. He attributes much of his success to an organization known…
An Interesting Phenomena
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/10/24Oct14-Spook-Light.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)People like to have answers, and perhaps that’s what makes this phenomena so interesting. There seems to be no explaining…
The Philipse Manor
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/10/17Oct14-Philipse-Manor.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)When America won her independence, there were thousands of men and women who remained loyal to England during the war….
A President and a Cherry Tree
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/09/03Oct14-George-Washington-Cherry-Tree-2014.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes a person gains so much fame, they become bigger than life. So is that the case when we hear…
Inside a Safari Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/09/02Oct14-Safari-Museum-2014.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Osa Johnson was certainly not an imposing figure, but give her a gun and she could drop some of the…
The Birthplace of Stephen Douglas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/08/08Sep14-Stephen-Douglas-Birthplace.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Abraham Lincoln led the country through the Civil War, but it was this man who defeated him for the Senate…
Cyrus McCormick and His Threshing Machine
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/29Aug14-Cyrus-McCormick.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)For centuries, crops were cut and threshed by hand. That all changed with a young farmer in Virginia. This is…
Developing the Self Scouring Plow
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/25Aug14-John-Deere-Plow.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Although you may associate his name with tractors, he never saw one. Yet his name is synonymous with the equipment used…
The Fertile Farmland of Palmer, Alaska
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/18Aug14-Palmer-Alaska-Farmers-Market.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When you think of fertile farmland, you perhaps think of a location with deep rich soil in the Midwest. But…
