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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…
A Trip to St. Genevieve, Missouri
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/08/15Aug14-St-Genevieve-Missouri.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We’ve all seen a log cabin. Such structures were the norm for many Americans early in the country’s history. But…
Preparing for the Iditarod
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/08Aug14-Iditarod-Headquarters-Reddington.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Some sports not only require thousands of hours of training, they also require a hefty financial investment. For those who…
Over the Falls in a Barrel
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/01Aug14-Niagra-Falls-NY-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Don Lokor is asked many questions about Niagara Falls. He is considered the resident historian of the national landmark. The…
A Visit to Niagra Falls
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/31Jul14-Niagra-Falls-NY-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Before Yellowstone was ever made the first national park, Niagara Falls became the nation’s first state park. The thundering waters…
A Hangar to Park a Plane
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/25Jul14-Frank-Phillips-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)When Frank bought a plane he needed a hangar in which to park it. Soon the plane wasn’t the only…
The Phillips Home
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/24Jul14-Frank-Phillips-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)The president of this oil company was looking for a place to entertain business leaders from the east coast and…
Going to Hell
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/07/18Jul14-Hell-Michigan.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We go to great lengths to gather the stories you here on this program…and this time we literally went to…
The Inventor of the First Automobile
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/07/17Jul14-Elwood-Haynes.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Who invented the first automobile? You might be surprised that it wasn’t Henry Ford…but this man from Kokomo, Indiana…
A Famous Inventor
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/07Jul14-Inventor-Benjamin-Franklin.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)His first invention involved a kite–and perhaps his most famous discovery involved one too…
