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The Holiday Christmas Store

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/12/Holiday-Christmas-Store.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)If Santa Claus needed a place to buy all of his decorations, this would be it. It’s big business in…

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The Toughest Place on the Basketball Court

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/25Nov11-Womens-Official-Marianne-Karp.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)It may just be the toughest position to play on the basketball court. The worst part is, no matter how…

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The First Thanksgiving

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/24Nov11-Berkley-Plantation-Thanksgiving.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)You may have thought Thanksgiving dates back to the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony in today’s state of Massachusetts. But there’s…

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The Buckhorn Saloon

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/Buckhorn-Saloon-2011.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)When people can’t pay cash for the items they want, they may try to barter. That’s what this saloon did,…

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King of the Cowboys

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/Tom-Mix.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.8MB)Tom Mix was known as the King of the Cowboys, starring in over 300 films from 1910 – 1935. He…

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Smuggling Cash Under Your Skirt

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/David-Waldo.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.8MB)When Union and Confederate sympathizers threatened to take this banker’s money, he did what any logical person would do–he dressed…

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The Carthage, Illinois Jail

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/Carthage-Illinois-Jail.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Jails aren’t supposed to be a thing of beauty, but the tan limestone walls of the 1839 jailhouse in Carthage,…

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Living Through The War of the Worlds

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/War-of-the-Worlds.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)It was Halloween Eve, 1938. Suddenly, the ghosts and goblins that were just an imagination in one’s mind became very…

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A Bunker Hidden in Plain Site

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/Greenbrier-Bunker-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)In 1958 construction began on a new wing at the luxurious Greenbrier resort in West Virginia. What many people didn’t…

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Project Greek Island

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/Greenbrier-Bunker-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)It was called project Greek Island and it was just a part of this nation’s preparedness during the cold war….

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The Presidency of Zachary Taylor

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/Zachary-Taylor-2011.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Although this president died in office in 1850, his body was exhumed over a century later to determine if his…

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Aroostook County’s Potato Harvest

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/Maine-Potato-Harvest-2011.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)This week, many schools in this county are giving their students a couple of weeks of vacation.  It is a…

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The International Towing and Recovery Museum

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/09/Towing-Museum-2011.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Not long after the first cars were made, the first cars began to break down or get involved in accidents….

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Die or Betray a Friend?

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/09/Sam-Davis-2011-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Sam Davis had an important choice to make. His decision would determine if he would live or be hung…..

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A Story Everyone from Tennessee Knows by Heart

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/09/Sam-Davis-2011-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)His job was to use his stealth to maneuver through enemy lines and gather as much information as possible for…

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Show-Me Energy

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/09/Show-Me-Energy-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 955.1KB)We may have heard of cellulosic ethanol production, but cellulosic plants can be used to provide a variety of energy…

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Grave Robbers

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/09/William-Henry-Harrison-Tomb.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)We may have heard tales of grave robbers, but perhaps you never knew that one such case took place in…

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Lindberger Cheese

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/09/Lindberger-Cheese-2011.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)It’s a story that radio can not do justice. Not because you need to see it, but because you need…

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Fact vs Fiction of the Famous Ride

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/Paul-Revere-2011-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)LISTEN, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere. On the eighteenth of April, in…

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A Famous Dentist

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/Paul-Revere-2011-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)He’s probably the most famous dentist that helped win the Revolutionary War. You might not know he cleaned teeth, but…

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