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A Method to Your Work

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/Methodist-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.4MB)If you do something the same way day after day, you might be said to have a method to your…

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Encountering Trying Times

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/Methodist-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)On the southeast coast of Georgia you can find the place were these brothers encountered one of their most trying…

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Best of 2013: Big Bud

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/01Jan14-Best-of-2013-Big-Bud.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)Deere, Case, Oliver, Ford and Allis-Chalmers…they are but a few of …..many companies that have built tractors. The largest tractor…

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Best of 2013: Inside the Presidential Limo

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/31Dec13-Best-of-2013-Presidential-Limo.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may have heard people say that President Kennedy would have never been assassinated in Dallas if he ordered the…

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Best of 2013: A Viking Ship

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/30Dec13-Best-of-2013-Viking-Ship.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)On the surface it seemed to be a ludicrous project.  A man with no experience building boats, was going to…

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Best of 2013: Arecibo Observatory

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/27Dec13-Best-of-2013-Arecibo-Observatory.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)On occasion you may here a story about an asteroid making a close pass to our planet. So who tells…

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The Best of 2013: Antelope Island

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/26Dec13-Best-of-2013-Antelope-Island.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Every fall there is a round-up of the herd here just outside of Salt Lake City, Utah.  You can even…

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The Only Noel

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/25Dec13-Noel-Missouri.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)At Christmas we may sing, “The First Noel.”  In the United States, this is the “Only Noel.”  Confused?  Join me…

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Twas the Night Before Christmas

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/24Dec13-Night-Before-Christmas.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)We know the words of “’twas the night before Christmas;” words that helped solidify the image of Santa over 200…

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Keeping Ahead of the Beverage of the Day

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/19Dec13-Prohibition-Party-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)Before there was a Got Milk slogan…some dairymen used an amendment to the constitution to help keep their product ahead…

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The Prohibition Party

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/18Dec13-Prohibition-Party-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)You may have thought this political party died when alcohol became legal again back in the 1930s.  You’ll be intrigued…

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One of The Largest Sheep Export Cities in the World

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/17Dec13-Kethchum-Sheep.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)When the silver ran out, the sheep moved in–thousands of them, in fact. This place became one of the largest…

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A POW-built Nativity

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/16Dec13-Algona-Iowa-Nativity.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)It was Christmas 1945. German POWs at Camp Algona in Algona, Iowa would be returning to Europe the next year….

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The Heisman Runner-Up

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/13Dec13-Leroy-Keyes.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)In 1968, O.J Simpson won the Heisman Trophy, but it was this man who was runner-up in the Heisman balloting…

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Keith’s Cafe

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/09Dec13-Keiths-Cafe.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In Memphis, Missouri, there’s a café where great food has been served for about 65 years now. This is the…

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The Denver Sleigh Works

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/03Dec13-Denver-Sleigh-Works.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Santa needs a sleigh to make deliveries around the world. This man makes sure he will never run out of…

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A Store For the Holidays

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/02Dec13-Holiday-Christmas-Store.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If Santa Claus needed a place to buy all of his decorations, this would be it. This big business in…

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Grilling the Turkey

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/29Nov13-Turkey-Grilling.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Thanksgiving is the time most Americans talk turkey, but Sheerleen Clausen hopes to change that they’ll think of turkey every…

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Your Face on the Side of a Semi

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/28Nov13-Fred-Mares-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Each of the communities that we call home can claim outstanding individuals who go the extra mile when it comes…

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A Helpful Smile In Every Aisle

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/27Nov13-Fred-Mares-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Image a man who speaks over ten languages, can play multiple musical instruments and serenade customers with his wonderful voice….

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