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The 150th Annivesary of the Gettysburg Address
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/19Nov13-Gettysburg-150.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Just four months after the Battle of Gettysburg, over 50,000 people came to that town for the dedication of a…
The Saugus Iron Works
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/18Nov13-Saugus-Iron-Works.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It is a factory that began operation over a century before England’s colonies became the United State of America. We…
Levee High Pie
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/Blue-Owl-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The flood of 1993 almost washed away this restaurant. The levee saved the building and provided the inspiration behind their…
Baking At the Blue Owl
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/Blue-Owl-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)1983 was the best of times and worst of times for Mary. She was going through a divorce, but it’s…
Mystic Seaport
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/11Nov13-Mystic-Seaport-2013.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Long before the birth of this nation, this seaport was building the ships that would create a stream of commerce…
The Rendevous Theatre
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/08Nov13-Rendevous-Theatre.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When hunters and trappers would gather once each season, it was often called a rendezvous. In Alaska and the Yukon…
The Oklahoma Land Rush
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/05Nov13-Cherokee-Strip.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine a train chugging south out of Kansas with people jumping from the cars all along its route. The reason…
Getting to FFA Contest
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/04Nov13-Ralph-Drennen.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)An FFA advisor was driving his students to a competition when the bus broke down with twenty eight students and…
Daniel Boone Crosses the Mississippi
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/01Nov13-St-Louis-History-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Daniel Boone is one of the most famous American frontiersmen. But when he crossed the Mississippi River, he went to…
The History of St. Louis
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/31Oct13-St-Louis-History-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)It’s one of the oldest and largest cities on the Mississippi River. Although some may have heard of names like…
The Cyle of a Cesium Atom
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/30Oct13-Atomic-Clock-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)If I said I’d be back in a second, I’d literally be back in 9,192,631,770 cycles of a cesium atom. …
The Most Accurate of Clocks
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/29Oct13-Atomic-Clock-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)For most of human history, the movement of the sun, moon and planets has been used to measure time. But…
Traveling Back Home
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/25Oct13-Fort-Clatsop-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)It was their goal…yet it was only the half way point of the trip…It was the Pacific Ocean that the…
A Suitable Winter Camp
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/24Oct13-Fort-Clatsop-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)After spotting the Pacific Ocean on November 7th, 1805, Lewis and Clark searched for a suitable location for their winter…
The Balloon Bombs from World War II
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/21Oct13-Balloon-Bombs.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It was a foreign attack on the US mainland, yet few have heard the story about Japan’s balloon bomb and…
Alibates Flint
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/07Oct13-Alibates-Flint.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It’s called Alibates flint, and this spot in the panhandle of Texas is the only place in the world where…
Hiding Cash in a Unique Way
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/30Sep13-Waldo-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When Union and Confederate sympathizers threatened to take this banker’s money, he did what any logical person would do–he dressed…
Where’s Waldo?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/27Sep13-Waldo-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A few years ago, you may remember the popular Where’s Waldo books that had kids searching for a man hidden…
Teaching Small Farming Methods That Work
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/24Sep13-Free-Range-Chickens.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When Herman’s son brought home an antiquated animal production book that he happened to find in his high school ag…
The Birthplace of the “Little Giant”
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/12Sep13-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…
