Category: Illinois
The Race to Develop Penicillin
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/02/19Feb16-Peoria-Penicillin-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:04 — 2.1MB)You may have heard of Alexander Fleming’s discovery of penicillin back in the 1920s. However, most folks don’t know the…
The Miracle in Short Supply
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/02/18Feb16-Peoria-Penicillin-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)It was a miracle drug. Penicillin. However Dr. Alexander Fleming’s discovery was far from an immediate success as the world’s…
Where Did That Pumpkin Pie Come From?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/04Dec15-Ackerman-Farms-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Over the holidays many of us will have a piece of Pumpkin pie. When you eat that dessert, you might…
Changing the Way They Farmed
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/03Dec15-Ackerman-Farms-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)During the 1980s many farmers were forced to change the way they farmed. The financial conditions of the decade made…
More With Holocaust Survivor Judy Straus
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/10Jul15-Judy-Straus-5.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)We conclude our story with Holocaust survivor Judy Straus. If you’ve missed any of her story of tragedy and triumph,…
Lives In Jeopardy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/09Jul15-Judy-Straus-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)As the end of World War II in Europe drew ever closer, the Germans stepped up the pace of sending…
Nazi Death Camps Through the Eyes of a Child
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/08Jul15-Judy-Straus-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The scenes from Nazi death camps were staggering. Now imagine experiencing those horros through the eyes of a child. That…
The Nazis Invade Home
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/07Jul15-Judy-Straus-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The Straus family left Germany in the 1930s to escape the rising power of Adolf Hitler. Then, in the early…
Holocaust Survivor Judy Straus
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/06Jul15-Judy-Straus-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)This week we visit with Judy Straus, a survivor of the Holocaust Her story is one of tragedy and hope…and…
Saved Jewish Artifacts
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/06Feb15-Chicago-Holocaust-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The movie, “Monuments Men,” details the race by Allied forces to save precious Jewish artifacts from destruction by the Nazis. …
A Museum Dedicated to Jewish Survivors
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/05Feb15-Chicago-Holocaust-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)In 1976 a group led by Frank Collin wanted to march in the city of Skokie, Illinois. The event drew…
A Journey to the US Ahead of the War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/04Feb15-Henry-Straus-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)Today we know the atrocities committed against Jews at the hands of the Nazis. However, in the years leading up…
The Night of Broken Glass
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/03Feb15-Henry-Straus-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)It is a night that Henry Straus will never forget. November 9th, 1938. It’s today known as the “Night of…
A Jewish Family’s Challenges in Nazi Germany
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/30Jan15-Henry-Straus-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)We resume our moving conversation today with Henry Straus as he share his family’s challenges living as Jews in a…
Growing Up Jewish in Germany
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/29Jan15-Henry-Straus-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)From his earliest memories, Henry Straus remembers discrimination. As a young Jewish boy living in a German city, his family…
Recruiting Students for Careers in Agriculture
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/20Nov14-Corey-Flournoy-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you were recruiting students for careers in agriculture, a large city might be the last place you’d think to make…
An Unlikely Choice for FFA President
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/19Nov14-Corey-Flournoy-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Twenty years ago a the Future Farmers of America made an unlikely choice for their national president…for his years were spent…
The Largest of Indian Mounds
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/10/04Nov14-Kahokia-Mounds-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:57 — 2.0MB)We’ve probably all heard of Indian mounds scattered throughout parts of North America. Here just east of present day St. Louis…
The Largest City
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/10/03Nov14-Kahokia-Mounds-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:57 — 2.0MB)Before there was a United States of America, this was the largest city within it’s modern boundaries. In fact, it’s size…
Developing the Self Scouring Plow
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/25Aug14-John-Deere-Plow.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Although you may associate his name with tractors, he never saw one. Yet his name is synonymous with the equipment used…
