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A Museum Devoted to Wrecks

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/12/05Dec17-Great-Lakes-Shipwreck-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you don’t slow down, you might have a wreck.  Here, if you don’t slow down, heed the weather, the…

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Exploring the Ships Around the Soo Locks

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/12/04Dec17-Valley-Camp-Sault-Ste-Marie-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you venture to Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, you may go to see the Soo Locks.  Some folks also want…

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Valley Camp

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/11/01Dec17-Valley-Camp-Sault-Ste-Marie-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s called the Valley Camp, and no it’s not a campground and no it’s not in a valley.  But that’s…

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The Oldest City in Michigan

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/11/30Nov17-Valley-Camp-Sault-Ste-Marie-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)What is the oldest city in Michigan?  We’ll give you a moment to ponder the answer and the founder and…

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Win One For the Gipper

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/08Nov17-Gipper-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:03 — 2.1MB) You most likely know this football player, not for what he did on the gridiron, but instead for what…

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A Multi-Sport Star Known For Football

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/07Nov17-Gipper-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB) He was one of the nation’s first multi-sport stars but you know him for football and the movie that…

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Notre Dame Without a High School Diploma

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/06Nov17-Gipper-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)He went to Notre Dame, despite the fact he did not have a High School diploma.  And once he got…

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Something Glittering After a Rain

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/07/11Aug17-Iron-Mine-Tour-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There was something glittering on the ground after a big rain.  It wasn’t gold, but it was certainly interesting.  So…

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Digging An Ore Mine To Drum Up Business

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/07/10Aug17-Iron-Mine-Tour-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Many a business has thought of unique ideas to drum up new customers.  So what did one group of hotel…

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The First Snow Skiing Club

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/07/09Aug17-Ishpeming-Ski-Jump-5.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It would be hard to identify the very person that ever began snow skiing.  The concept has been around for…

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Flying…With a Little Bravery Mixed In

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/07/08Aug17-Ishpeming-Ski-Jump-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)For centuries humans have desired to zoom into the air like birds.  But how do you get that feeling when…

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Kids Flying Above the Ground

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/07/07Aug17-Ishpeming-Ski-Jump-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many people say that kids need to be more active.  And, if you want a kid to excel in sports…

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A Different Purpose for the Doghouse

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/07/04Aug17-Ishpeming-Ski-Jump-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Kids can sometimes come up with fantastic and perhaps, unwise stunts to pass their time around home.  Such was the…

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A Perfect Place for Snow Sports

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/07/03Aug17-Ishpeming-Ski-Jump-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Depending on where you live in the nation, certain sports may be more popular than others.  When you live in…

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Moving a Fort to a Better Location

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/07/02Aug17-Mackinaw-Fort-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Forts are often built to defend a military position.   But when your fort is not in the best location for…

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An Innocent Game of Lacrosse

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/07/01Aug17-Mackinaw-Fort-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It seemed like an innocent game of lacrosse.  A group of men invited locals to come watch what was billed…

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A Strategic Fort Location

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/07/31Jul17-Mackinaw-Fort-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today it is a well-known summer vacation spot.  Turn back the clock about three centuries and people would have known…

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Where Santa Gets His Decorations

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/20Dec16-Bronners-Christmas-Wonderland.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)If Santa Claus needed a place to buy  all of his decorations, this would be it.  It’s big business in…

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A Shipwreck That Still Influences Today

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/11Nov15-Edmund-Fitzgerald-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Each November 10th, the bell here in Whitefish Point will chime 29 times for the crew that died aboard the…

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The Mystery of the Edmund Fitzgerald

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/10Nov15-Edmund-Fitzgerald-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It’s a mystery that is now 40 years old…a mystery that lives on through a song that tells the story…

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