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A New Perspective on a Vegetable

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/08/11Aug14-Artichokes-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes it’s hard to get kids to eat their vegetables.  Now imagine the vegetable looks like a hand grenade and people…

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Lava Beds National Monument

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/06May13-Lava-Tubes-National-Park.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)In this barren stretch of the West, you can find the landscape scarred by the lava from thousands of years…

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A Train Depot in Palm Springs

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/05Mar13-Palm-Springs-History.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)When the rails came through this stretch of dry wilderness, the only people living here were the Cahuilla Indians. What…

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Death Valley

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/Death-Valley-2011-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Because Death Valley is such a difficult environment to support plant and animal life, most suppose that is how it…

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Crossing the Nation’s Hottest Valley

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/Death-Valley-2011-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)On the border of California and Nevada you will find a place that has daunted countless travelers for the past…

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June McCarroll’s Lasting Legacy

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/18Oct10-June-McCarroll.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Today you could get a ticket if you don’t drive on your side of the road. Worse yet, you could…

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A Museum for a Date

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Date-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)A new museum is opening that is perfect for you and a date. It’s a bad pun but a fun…

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Harnessing Electricity from the Wind

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/07/Palm-Springs-Wind-Farm-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 942.4KB)For those who visit Palm Springs, California for the first time, they are often most surprised, not by the luxurious…

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The History of Wind Farming in California

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/07/Palm-Springs-Wind-Farm-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 939.8KB)If someone tells tall tales we might say they are full of wind. Mr. Oliver’s story was not only full…

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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…

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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….

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Palm Springs Oasis

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/07/Palm-Springs-Oasis.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 944.5KB)If you visit Palm Springs, California, you may be tempted to believe this resort town was carved out of an…

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Raising Boys to Be Men

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/05/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,…

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A Daughter of Alcatraz’s Story

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/04/Alcatraz-Daughter.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 952.4KB)It was the most famous of escape attempts at Alcatraz. The fact that no one ever saw the inmates alive-or…

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Palm Springs, California

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/04/Palm-Springs-Tour.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 957.1KB)Before Palm Springs was a resort town–before Palm Springs was really even a town, for that matter; movie stars began…

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Jackie Cochran, Pilot

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/03/Palm-Springs-Jackie-Cochran.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 953.1KB)Most people have heard of Chuck Yeager, but most have not heard of his good friend Jackie, a pilot who…

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A Train Depot in Palm Springs

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/03/Palm-Springs-History-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 958.4KB)When the rails came through this stretch of dry wilderness, the only people living here were the Cahuilla Indians. What…

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Creating Tastier Vegetables

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/03/Monsanto-Tasty-Vegetables1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 951.6KB)President George Bush made headlines when he banned broccoli from the White House and Air Force One. Perhaps he’d eat…

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Near Libertation from a POW Camp

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/02/POW-Tom-Crosby-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 954.7KB)American troops had finally made it to Manila and were attempting to free POWs like Tom Crosby. Just when things…

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Suffering in a POW Camp

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/02/POW-Tom-Crosby-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 957.3KB)It is difficult to imagine the conditions for POWs like Tom Crosby in the weeks leading up to their camps…

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