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Surviving the Odds
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/09Dec15-Tom-Brand-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Statistics show that if you need CPR, even in a hospital setting, your chances of survival are under ten percent. …
Angels Watching Over Us
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/08Dec15-Tom-Brand-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you are a person of faith, you may believe there are angels watching over us. Today’s story certainly supports…
Facing A Heart Attack
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/07Dec15-Tom-Brand-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we begin a series with Tom Brand. Many of you may know Tom as a long-time broadcaster and today’s…
Scenic Route – Tom Brand
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/Scenic-Route-Tom-Brand.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 45:29 — 31.2MB)American Countryside Producer and Editor Tom Brand faced multiple heart attacks in the summer of 2013 that not only affected…
Where Did That Pumpkin Pie Come From?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/04Dec15-Ackerman-Farms-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Over the holidays many of us will have a piece of Pumpkin pie. When you eat that dessert, you might…
Changing the Way They Farmed
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/03Dec15-Ackerman-Farms-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)During the 1980s many farmers were forced to change the way they farmed. The financial conditions of the decade made…
Stories from Pendleton, Oregon
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/02Dec15-Pendelton-Underground-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most towns have a mix of good and bad in their histories. Perhaps that’s the case for Pendleton, Oregon. Certainly…
Underground Tunnels and Secret Establishments
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/01Dec15-Pendelton-Underground-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may think stories of secret underground tunnels and secret subterranean establishments is a thing of folklore. But go below…
A Town for Early Travelers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/30Nov15-Pendelton-Underground-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)About 200 miles east of Portland, Oregon on today’s interstate 84, you’ll find a town that once served the early…
The McElhaney Cattle Company
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/27Nov15-McElhaney-Cattle-Company.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Angus Brown is used to dealing with 120 degree plus heat and three inches of rain a year. It’s a…
The Butterball Turkey Talkline
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/26Nov15-Plymouth-Rock.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Each Thanksgiving we are likely to remember the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth Rock. But is that rock really the…
The Origins of Thanksgiving
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/25Nov15-Pilgrim-Hall-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Each November we celebrate Thanksgiving in this country. But how did we get the annual holiday? While it may have…
A One-Time Feast
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/24Nov15-Pilgrim-Hall-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We often trace our Thanksgiving holiday back to the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony. It’s true they did have a feast…
The Oldest Museum in the Nation
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/23Nov15-Pilgrim-Hall-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Where is the oldest museum in the nation? You might guess New York or Washington, D.C., but the town is…
Farming With the Methods of 400 Years Ago
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/11/20Nov15-First-Thanksgiving-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Farming can be a challenging way to make a living, especially when you consider factors like the weather that are…
The First Thanksgiving
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/11/19Nov15-First-Thanksgiving-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)We associate the first Thanksgiving with the Native American and Pilgrims living in Plymouth Colony. However, we know very little…
Squanto
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/11/18Nov15-Squanto.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)His name is one from our history books, but perhaps we have forgotten just how important his role was in…
A Crop Best Suited for a New Home
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/11/17Nov15-Plymouth-Colony-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some regions of the country are better suited for specific crops. That was the case for the Pilgrims who established…
People Called Pilgrams
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/11/16Nov15-Plymouth-Colony-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In 1620, the men and women we call the “Pilgrims” landed near Cape Cod, and eventually established Plymouth Colony. As…
Meet Amberley Snyder
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/13Nov15-Amberly-Snyder-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Amberley Snyder is quickly making a name for herself at rodeos across the nation. However, her life is one of…
