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Watching the Ships Pass By

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/15Oct15-Soo-Locks-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)The ships here are moving so slowly, it’s sometime difficult to tell if they are in fact moving at all. …

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Overcoming Big Obstacles

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/14Oct15-Soo-Locks-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Before highways crisscrossed this nation, rivers often provided the best road to move cargo and passengers.  But some of those…

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The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/13Aug15-Great-Lakes-Shipwreck-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Perhaps it’s fitting that you have to go a bit out of the way to find the Great Lakes Shipwreck…

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A Fear on Lake Superior

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/12Aug15-Great-Lakes-Shipwreck-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Some sailors and airman have long feared the Bermuda Triangle for the mysterious fate of some who have passed there. …

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Whitefish Point

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/11Aug15-Great-Lakes-Shipwreck-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)On a road map, it’s simply listed as “Whitefish Point.”  That place name has little significance to most, but for…

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Going to Hell

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/07/18Jul14-Hell-Michigan.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We go to great lengths to gather the stories you here on this program…and this time we literally went to…

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The Inventor of the First Automobile

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/07/17Jul14-Elwood-Haynes.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Who invented the first automobile?  You might be surprised that it wasn’t Henry Ford…but this man from Kokomo, Indiana…

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A Store For the Holidays

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/02Dec13-Holiday-Christmas-Store.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If Santa Claus needed a place to buy all of his decorations, this would be it. This big business in…

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Protecting a President

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/05/13May13-Presidential-Limo-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)After delivering a speech at the Washington Hilton Hotel, President Ronald Regan was hit by a bullet fired by John…

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President Kennedy’s Bubbletop Car

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/10May13-Presidential-Limo-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)You may have heard people say that President Kennedy would have never been assassinated in Dallas if he ordered the…

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A Luxurious and Secure Automobile Collection

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/09May13-Presidential-Limo-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Today we begin a three part series on one of the most luxurious and secure automobiles in America – the…

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A Great Collection of Buildings

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/08May13-Henry-Ford-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)The birthplace of America is often considered to be Independence Hall, the site  of the signing of the Declaration of…

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Three Men – One Amazing Museum

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/07May13-Henry-Ford-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Edison, Ford and Firestone.  They are some of the best known inventors and businessmen of the 20th century.  But not…

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Remember the Raisin!

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/20Mar13-River-Raisin-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)We all recall the battle cry, “Remember the Alamo” but 200 years ago it was “Remember the Raisin!”  So what…

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A Family With Military History

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/11Mar13-Custer-Monroe-Michigan-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)When news of the defeat at the Little Bighorn reached Monroe, Michigan, this town had an extra reason to mourn….

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The Holiday Christmas Store

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/12/Holiday-Christmas-Store.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)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 Store for the Holidays

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/23Dec10-Holiday-Christmas-Store.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)If Santa Claus needed a place to buy all of his decorations, this would be it. This big business in…

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Christmas Wonderland

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/12/Holiday-Christmas-Store.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)If Santa Clause needed a place to buy all of his ornaments and decorations, this would be it. It’s big…

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