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A Cosmosphere in the Plains
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Kansas-Cosmosphere-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.9MB)Where can you find the largest collection of Soviet space artifacts on display in the world? The answer is in…
Show-Me Energy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Show-Me-Energy.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:58 — 925.7KB)You may have heard of cellulosic ethanol production, but cellulosic plants can be used to provide a variety of products…..
Jailhouse Families
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Jailhouse-Families.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)When the Sheriff was away, the prisoners might play; that is, until the Sheriff’s wife got involved…..
Big Pumpkins
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Big-Pumpkin.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Some people put a lot of time into carving a jack-o-lantern. But if you want to use one of Don…
Inside the Kansas Salt Mines
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/09/Kansas-Salt-Mines-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 940.0KB)When you think of healthy jobs, mining doesn’t leap to the top of many people’s lists. However, in Kansas, people…
Going Underground
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/09/Kansas-Salt-Mines-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 940.2KB)We’ve sunk to a new level to bring you this program. That doesn’t necessarily mean we’ve lost our morals or…
The Blue Owl Restaurant
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/09/Blue-Owl-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 942.2KB)The flood of 1993 almost washed away this restaurant, but the levy saved the building and provided the inspiration behind…
Jean Lafitte
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/09/Zahn-Lafite.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 939.8KB)He’s still regarded as an important figure in New Orleans and American history. Although nearly two centuries have passed, this…
The Battle of the Hemp Bales
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/08/24Aug09-Battle-of-the-Hemp-Bales.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.8MB)The bullet holes still scar the inside and outside of this home–a place that was a hospital during a skirmish…
Eisenhower’s Birthplace
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/08/20Jul09-Eisenhower-Birthplace1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)This President was born in Texas, but always claimed Kansas as his home…..
France’s Boxcar Gifts
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/08/40-and-8-Boxcars-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 939.8KB)Thousands of boxcars crisscross the country each day with a variety of cargo. But these boxcars were truly special, because…
40 and 8 Boxcars
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/08/40-and-8-Boxcars-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 940.6KB)The term 40 & 8 doesn’t mean much to most Americans–unless you happened to serve in France during one of…
Restoring Masterpieces
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/07/Pool-Table-Restoration-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 941.4KB)To say Joe Newell restores pool tables is like saying Michelangelo was just a painter. The work Joe does is…
Pool Table Restoration
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/07/Pool-Table-Restoration-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 940.2KB)In the middle of farm country, you can find one of the nation’s experts on this game, not to mention…
An Island with A View
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/07/Alcatraz-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:05 — 978.2KB)This island has some of the best views of San Francisco Bay and the city itself, yet most people didn’t…
An Island Called Alcatraz
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/07/Alcatraz-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 944.5KB)At one time, it was one of the nation’s most important forts, but that’s not how the it’s known today….
Ocmulgee National Monument
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Ocmulgee-National-Monument.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 950.4KB)In this country, the US Capitol is the place the laws are made, but 1000 years ago, it was this…
Lewis & Clark’s Montana Obstacle
Although sandbars and other river snags were a danger for Lewis and Clark on the way up the Missouri River, it was this obstacle in…
Fort Union
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Fort-Union-2010.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 942.2KB)It was the site of a vast trading network on the northern plains. It’s history spanned forty years and today,…
Charles Carroll
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Charles-Carroll-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 945.9KB)Of those who signed the Declaration of Independence, this man was the only one to sign more than just his…