Category: Podcast
A World War 2 Pilot and POW
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/01/Ed-Davidson-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.9MB)Ed believed he was a well informed pilot flying for the United States. Then the German captured him and told…
A Young WW2 Pilot
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/01/Ed-Davison-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Ed Davidson got to cross the Atlantic on the Queen Mary, but his trip wasn’t for pleasure…
How Bad Can the Weather Be?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/01/Mount-Washington-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.9MB)If you are ever tempted to think the winter weather where you live is bad, just wait until you hear…
A Week of Weather Observations
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/01/Mount-Washington-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)The warmest temperature ever recorded here was 72 degrees. It once got down to 47 below. Brian Clark’s job is…
Weather on Top of Mount Washington
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/01/Mount-Washington-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.8MB)This observatory sees an average of 237 days of fog each year, but on a clear day you can see…
A Modern Day Perry Mason
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/01/05Jan10-Mike-Rinard-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Perry Mason was a star defense attorney on the silver screen, but we doubt he ever had to work with…
A Public Defender
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/01/04Jan10-Mike-Rinard-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.9MB)Our law system guarantees everyone the right to a lawyer. Mike is the guy the court might appoint to help…
FFA Gets Highlighted in the Rose Bowl Parade
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/01/FFA-Rose-Bowl-Parade.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Happy New Year! The National FFA will be highlighted in front of millions of people in attendance and watching the…
Best of 2009: Okefenokee Swamp
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/12/Best-of-2009-Okefenokee-Swamp.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.9MB)You might think a swamp is the best place to plant a corn crop, but deep in the heart of…
Best of 2009: Irish Cattle
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/12/Best-of-2009-Irish-Cattle.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.9MB)Here’s a farmer who has some of the greenest pastures on Earth, so why not raise cattle here? There are…
Best of 2009: Vermont Cow Power
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/12/Best-of-2009-Vermont-Cow-Power.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)It’s called Cow Power, a program that produces renewable energy from dairy cattle. It’s such a good idea that Vermont…
‘Twas the Night Before Christmas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/12/Night-Before-Christmas-2009.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)We know the words of “’twas the night before Christmas;” words that helped solidify the image of Santa over 200…
A McCrea Family Christmas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/12/McCrea-Christmas-2009.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)
Discovering Dickson Mounds
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/12/Dickson-Mounds-21.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 950.8KB)Long before there were cities like New York and Chicago, these giant cities were scattered across the nation. Today we…
Dickson Mounds
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/12/Dickson-Mounds-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Today we say hello to our listeners on WDUK in Havanna, IL. This nice town on the Illinois River is…
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…
Blue and Gold Sausage
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/12/18Dec09-Blue-and-Gold-Sausage.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 3.7MB)This FFA advisor found a fund raiser that was so successful, he had to quit teaching just to operate the…
Mount Pleasant’s Old Threshers Reunion
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/12/Old-Threshers-Reunion1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 1.9MB)Today it is a farm event that easily doubles the size of this Midwestern city. But when it began back…
The Button Capitol of the World
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/12/Muscatine-Buttons1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)There’s plenty of fertile farmland along the Mississippi River at Muscatine, Iowa, but a century ago, this city was known…
Cowboy King of Marriage
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/12/Tom-Mix-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 956.1KB)Tom Mix was known as the King of the Cowboys, starring in over 300 films from 1910 to 1935. He…