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Manassas Sesquicentennial
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Manassas-2011.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)As July 21st, 1861 dawned, residents of northern Virginia could not fathom what was about to take place. It’s been…
Kennecott Copper Mine
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/12Jul11-Kennecott-Copper-Mine.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)It’s the largest open pit mine in the world, with a hole so deep it swallowed entire towns. The mine…
Shopping at Lehman’s
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Kidron-Ohio-Lehman-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)If you lived without electricity–either by choice or simply because of the location you lived–where would you go to find…
Niche Marketing at Its Best
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Kidron-Ohio-Lehman-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)If you’re going to do well in business you have to stay up with the times. But for Jay Lehman,…
Perfecting an Airplane
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Dayton-Ohio-Wright-Brothers-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)The Wright Brothers made their first flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. However, it was the farmers around Dayton, Ohio…
The Home of the Wright Brothers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Dayton-Ohio-Wright-Brothers-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Although Kitty Hawk, North Carolina received most of the attention regarding the Wright Brothers first flight, it was this Ohio…
Hopewell Mounds
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Hopewell-Mounds-2011.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)History on this continent is young when compared to places like Europe, but that mentality is to forget about the…
Race Trials for Automobiles
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/Indy-500-Centennial.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)In the early days of auto building, hundreds of car makers battled for their own slice of the pie. With…
Sitting Bull
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/Sitting-Bull-2011.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)He is one of the greatest Indian chiefs ever to lead his tribes in peace and battle. Ironically, two different…
A Front Porch Presidential Campaign
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/2011-Harding-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)It may seem odd for a presidential candidate to campaign without leaving home. But that’s exactly what this man did–and…
The First President Born After the Civil War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/2011-Harding-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)We all know about the President who led the nation through the Civil War. But who was the first president…
An Unlikely Field Trip
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/06May10-Ernest-Muncreif-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:05 — 1.9MB)Many schools take field trips this time of the year. They are usually a fun event for students to get…
The Runestone
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/Runestone-KXRA-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)The ancient writing on this stone shows that Europeans had traveled to the interior of North America over a century…
A Rock in a Farmer’s Field
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/Runestone-KXRA-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Many a farmer has found a rock in his field, but the rock Olaf Ohman found was different than anything…
New Hampshire’s Town and Country Motor Inn
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/Town-and-Country-Inn-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 953.7KB)The Northeastern United State is home to many long time, family owned resort motels. One of the most famous properties…
Herbert Hoover
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/Herbert-Hoover-2011.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Some consider this president to be the cause of the Great Depression. It was probably more a matter of being…
A Gangster’s Vacation Hot Spot
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/03/Hot-Springs-Gangsters.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 940.4KB)There aren’t too many peaceful stories about gangsters, but this American city offered ruthless men a chance to have a…
Tippecanoe, Indiana
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/03/Tippecanoe-2011.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Perhaps you’ve heard the Presidential slogan “Tippecanoe and Tyler too.” Today’s feature is literally at Tippecanoe. What is it and…
The Kingsley Plantation
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/03/Kingsley-Plantation.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 942.0KB)The story of Kingsley Plantation is fascinating, and when you factor in the life’s journey of the landowner’s wife, it…
Arivaca Boys Ranch
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/02/Arivaca-Boys-Ranch-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 948.2KB)The Bible’s parable of the prodigal son shares the story of a wayward son that comes home to a father…
