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Something To Take the Place of Cotton
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/28Feb17-Enterprise-Boll-Weevil-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Certain crops grow better in specific climates. That was certainly the case for farmers in southern Alabama. However, when their…
When Cotton Was No Longer King
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/27Feb17-Enterprise-Boll-Weevil-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Cotton was king in the southern U.S. in the early 20th century. However it was one of the tiniest of…
President’s Week 2017: Calvin Coolidge
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/02/24Feb17-Presidents-Week-Calvin-Coolidge-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It all happened in the middle of the night. The citizens of the United States went to bed on August…
President’s Week 2017: Herbert Hoover
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/02/23Feb17-Presidents-Week-Herbert-Hoover-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s Presidents Week on the and today’s feature focuses on a graduate of Stanford who used his engineering degree to…
President’s Week 2017: Woodrow Wilson
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/22Feb17-Presidents-Week-Woodrow-Wilson.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)He was the son of a Presbyterian minister who went on to teach school and lead the nation during a…
President’s Week 2017: Theodore Roosevelt
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/21Feb17-Presidents-Week-Theodore-Roosevelt.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)To date, no U.S. president has been born in North Dakota…but this commander-in-chief’s experiences there may be the reason he…
President’s Week 2017: William McKinley
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/20Feb17-Presidents-Week-William-McKinley.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some history students will remember the slogan “Remember the Maine”, a war cry that sent the U.S. into battle against…
The Jefferson Highway
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/02/17Feb17-Jefferson-Highway-2017.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)In the nineteen teens and early 20s motorists did not find their route by a highway number but rather a…
Nothing Here to See?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/02/16Feb17-Cawhawba-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some people who come here will say there’s nothing to see. However, others will find things everywhere both from the…
The Forgotten Capital
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/02/15Feb17-Cawhawba-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Maybe you had to memorize the state capitals when you were in elementary school. Today’s feature is about one that…
Establishing a State Capital
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/02/14Feb17-Cawhawba-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)When the thirteen colonies began to grow into more states, those new governments had to establish capitals. Many of those…
Helping With Need
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/02/13Feb17-Refuge-KC-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When you arrive in a place you’ve never been before, it make take awhile to figure things out. In fact,…
Refuge KC
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/10Feb17-Refuge-KC-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Our travels intentionally try to steer clear of controversy and today’s topic is one we had planned for several months. …
Rich’s Diverse Neighbors
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/09Feb17-Refuge-KC-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Just a block down the street from Rich’s office is a grocery store catering to the needs of folks from…
A Ministry for Newcomers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/08Feb17-Refuge-KC-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Richard Casebolt is the Founder and president of something called Refgue KC. It’s a ministry both in word and deed,…
The Man Who Was President For a Day
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/07Feb17-David-Rice-Atchison-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)President Trump was recently sworn in as this nation’s 45th president. Or was he? That question is not a debate…
David Rice Atchison
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/06Feb17-David-Rice-Atchison-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)His name is David Rice Atchison. If you know the name, you probably know his unique and sometimes debated place…
The Barns With An Important Link to the Past
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/03Feb17-Maasdan-Barns-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)At one time these old barns were hard to see because of the trees and weeds that attempted to engulf…
Saving the Old Barns
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/02Feb17-Maasdan-Barns-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes communities wrestle with the challenge of preserving history while trying to stay progressive at the same time. Such was…
Pop’s Plac
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/01Feb17-Pops-on-Route-66-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The next time you think about getting a soft drink, think about reaching for a bacon-flavored soda or even a…