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More Than Buying, Renovating and Selling
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/02Jan17-Flip-This-Town-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)You’ve heard of people flipping homes for a living. For many years, that’s how Ron Drake made part of his…
Best of 2016: Take A Little Trip with Colonel Jackson
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/30Dec16-Best-of-2016-Battle-of-New-Orleans.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)What you know about this battle probably comes from a song you’ve heard. So today we’ll “Take a little trip…
Best of 2016: Judge Roy Bean
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/29Dec16-Best-of-2016-Judge-Roy-Bean.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We may not like the rules, but every place needs them. And with the rules comes a person to enforce…
Best of 2016: A Nuclear “Event”
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/28Dec16-Best-of-2016-Idaho-National-Laboratory.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)It was an attention getter. A statement that showed the world the United States was serious about using nuclear energy…
Best of 2016: General Patton’s Special Drink
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/27Dec16-Best-of-2016-Boundary-Oak-Distillary.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:57 — 2.0MB)Sometimes people will use secret codes to keep vital information from slipping into the wrong hands. General Patton used such…
Best of 2016: The Moldy Cantaloupe That Saved The World
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/26Dec16-Best-of-2016-Peoria-Penicillin.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:57 — 2.0MB)You could call it the “moldy cantaloupe that saved the world.” It was an unlikely find, but one that indeed…
The Effect of The Three Wise Men
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/23Dec16-Bethlehem-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Bible tells us that after Jesus’ birth, wise men from the east came to honor the child. Interestingly, those…
Away In A Manger
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/22Dec16-Bethlehem-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)At Christmas time we may sing, “Away in a manger no crib for a bed.” While the phrase may be…
The “Little” Town of Bethlehem
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/21Dec16-Bethlehem-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a “little” town forever associated with Christmas. In a moment you’ll see that town is today a large city,…
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…
Getting An Ice Cold Drink
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/19Dec16-Cedar-Rapids-Ice-House-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)These days we don’t give a second thought to getting ice out of a machine to cool our drinks. There…
Honoring the Prince of Peace with Peace
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/16Dec16-World-War-I-Christmas-Truce-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)For parts of five years, opposing soldiers dug into trenches all across Europe. World War I would claim the lives…
Christmas in World War I
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/15Dec16-World-War-I-Christmas-Truce-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Christmas is not only a time for remembering the birth of Jesus, but it’s also a time when many of…
Fighting in the Trenches
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/14Dec16-World-War-I-Christmas-Truce-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)1914 marked the beginning of a war unlike anything the world had ever seen. Soon thousands of troops had amassed…
Using Your Tools In Another Trade
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/13Dec16-Cedar-Rapids-Ice-House-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some crop farmers may take on extra work in the winter once the harvest is complete. For farmers near Waterloo,…
The Big Winter Harvest in Iowa
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/12Dec16-Cedar-Rapids-Ice-House-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The state of Iowa is well known for harvesting a strong percentage of the nation’s corn and soybeans. Once upon…
From the NFL to the Farm
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/09Dec16-Jason-Brown-NFL-Farmer-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Jason Brown had no experience on the farm. In fact, his job seemed far removed from tilling the land. But…
A Call To Help Others
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/08Dec16-Jason-Brown-NFL-Farmer-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He was one of the best players at his position in the National Football League. At the height of his…
A Family Lost In The Pacific
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/07Dec16-Sullivan-Brothers-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the fall of 1942, the USS Juneau was sunk in the Pacific. On board were some young men from…
Family Members On The Same Ship
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/06Dec16-Sullivan-Brothers-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The captain of the USS Juneau saw a potential problem. He had several members of the same families serving on…
