Posted in American Countryside Best of Massachusetts Podcast

Saugus Iron Works

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Saugus-Iron-Works-2010.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 939.8KB)It is a factory that began operation over a century before England’s colonies became the United State of America. We…

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Posted in American Countryside Civil War National Battlefield National Park Service Podcast Virginia

The Battle of Cedar Creek

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Cedar-Creek-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)There are nearly 400 national park sites in the United States. Today we visit one of the newest in the…

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Posted in American Countryside Civil War Podcast Virginia

Burning the Fields

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Cedar-Creek-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Farmer’s crops can fall prey to the elements of mother nature. Heat, hail, wind and much more can destroy a…

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Posted in American Countryside Civil War Podcast Virginia

Belle Grove Plantation

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Belle-Grove-Plantation.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Our history books tell us the south had many slave holding plantations in the years leading up to the Civil…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Podcast Washington, DC

Election Day 2010

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Voting-2010.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Today we may not think much about the way we vote, unless a close contest causes us to have to…

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Posted in American Countryside Missouri Podcast

What’s behind the “Spook” Light?

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Spook-Light-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)People like to have answers, and perhaps that’s what makes this phenomena so interesting. There seems to be no explaining…

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Posted in American Countryside Missouri Podcast

The “Spook” Light

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Spook-Light-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)I don’t care for stories about evil and gruesomeness at Halloween, yet a spooky tale may be in order. For…

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Posted in American Countryside Arizona Podcast

Oceanfront Property in Arizona

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Yuma-Arizona-History-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)George Strait once sang that he had some oceanfront property in Arizona and if you’d buy that he’d throw the…

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Posted in American Countryside Arizona Podcast

A Ferry Crossing in the Desert

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Yuma-Arizona-History-21.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Before bridges crossed rivers, communities often relied upon ferries to carry people and supplies. In some cases, those ferry operators…

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Posted in American Countryside Arizona Podcast

An Oasis in the Desert

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Yuma-Arizona-History-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Yuma, Arizona is in the Sonora dessert. The annual average rainfall is about three inches per year. So it is…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Oklahoma Podcast

Pawnee Bill

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Pawnee-Bill-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 954.3KB)It may have seemed this famous western showman had married the wrong woman. After all, his bride was a city…

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Posted in American Countryside FFA Missouri Podcast Washington, DC

The Last National Convention

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/22Oct10-Larry-Case-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)“Being older than the rest of you I’m asked to advise you from time to time as the need arises…..”…

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Posted in American Countryside FFA Missouri Podcast Washington, DC

Dr. Larry Case’s Most Memorable Day

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/21Oct10-Larry-Case-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Dr. Larry Case became National FFA Advisor in 1984, but perhaps his most memorable day as an advisor at any…

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Posted in American Countryside FFA Missouri Podcast Washington, DC

“Here By the Owl…”

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/20Oct10-Larry-Case-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)The National FFA Convention is in Indianapolis this week, and this will be the last such event for Dr. Larry…

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Posted in American Countryside California Podcast

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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Posted in American Countryside Best of Kansas Podcast

The Kansas Cosmosphere

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/15Oct10-Kansas-Cosmosphere-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.9MB)Today we’re back in Hutchinson, KS and say hello to our listeners on KWBW. I can attest to what folks…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Kansas Podcast

A Cosmosphere in the Plains

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Kansas-Cosmosphere-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.9MB)Where can you find the largest collection of Soviet space artifacts on display in the world? The answer is in…

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Posted in American Countryside California food Podcast

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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Posted in American Countryside Best of Missouri Podcast

Show-Me Energy

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Show-Me-Energy.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:58 — 925.7KB)You may have heard of cellulosic ethanol production, but cellulosic plants can be used to provide a variety of products…..

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Posted in American Countryside Arkansas Podcast

Arkansas’ Spanish Treasure Cave

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Spanish-Treasure-Cave-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)In the years following Columbus’ voyage to the new world, other Europeans followed, some with ideas of conquering native American…

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