Category: California
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Living As A Prisoner of War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/02/POW-Tom-Crosby-21.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 952.7KB)In January of 1942, eight year old Tom Crosby, along with his brother, mother and grandmother, Americans living in Manilla,…
An 8-Year Old POW
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/02/POW-Tom-Crosby-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 957.1KB)Life was good for eight year old Tom Crosby, an American living in Manila in 1941. Then December 7th came,…
The Point Loma Lighthouse
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/02/Point-Loma-Lighthouse-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 951.0KB)Not long after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Americans began to see and hear things–things like Japanese tanks, subs and…
The San Diego Veterans Center
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/01/San-Diego-Veterans-Center.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 956.1KB)The plan was to tear down San Deigo’s old navy hospital. A new hospital was built, but portions of the…
