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Riding a Horse Without the Use of Your Legs
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/12Nov15-Amberly-Snyder-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Riding a horse requires skill, especially if you’re on the pro rodeo circuit. Now image that task without the use…
A Shipwreck That Still Influences Today
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/11Nov15-Edmund-Fitzgerald-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Each November 10th, the bell here in Whitefish Point will chime 29 times for the crew that died aboard the…
The Mystery of the Edmund Fitzgerald
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/10Nov15-Edmund-Fitzgerald-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It’s a mystery that is now 40 years old…a mystery that lives on through a song that tells the story…
A Dangerous Place for Ships
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/09Nov15-Edmund-Fitzgerald-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:05 — 2.1MB)If you come here to the shores of Lake Superior in the summer, you are likely to find lovely waters…
A Variety Show In The Basement of City Hall
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/10/06Nov15-Baldknobbers-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It had a inauspicious beginning. A variety show held in the basement of city hall that attracted a couple dozen…
The Baldknobbers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/10/05Nov15-Baldknobbers-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They were called the Baldknobbers – a group of vigilantes that roamed the Ozarks dispensing justice as they saw fit. …
One of the Biggest Stars in Country Music
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/10/04Nov15-Todd-Bradshaw-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)Today we visit with one of the biggest stars in country music – Kenny Chesney. But it’s a story with…
Making It Big Someday
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/10/03Nov15-Todd-Bradshaw-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Perhaps some of us have an dreams of making it big someday on stage. That was the case for Todd,…
Trying to Prevent a Bank Robbery
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/10/02Nov15-Northfield-Jesse-James.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You probably have not heard of a man named Joseph Lee Haywood. He died on September 7th, 1876 trying to…
A Capital City for Exiles
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/29Oct15-Roger-Williams-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In a sense, this capital city is a place established for exiles. If your thoughts and ideas were too radical…
Too Radical for the Time & Place
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/28Oct15-Roger-Williams-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Roger Williams’ ideas were simply too radical for his time and place, and for that, he was about to be…
The Smallest of the Fifty States
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/27Oct15-Roger-Williams-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)This week we are in the smallest of the fifty states, Rhode Island, for the story of the man who…
Capturing Someone’s Voice
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/26Oct15-Roger-Williams-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In an age centuries before a recorder could capture someone’s voice, young Roger could accomplish the same thing by hand. …
Overcoming Challenges 50 Years Later
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/23Oct15-NFA-History-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Next week at the National FFA Convention, there will be a recognition of the 50th anniversary of two groups joining…
The Voice That Inspired the Declaration of Independence
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/30Oct15-Roger-Williams-5.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Over a century before the founding fathers would write the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, this man was expounding…
Separate and Not Equal
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/22Oct15-NFA-History-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Separate but equal was almost always separate and NOT equal. That was the case in agricultural education as well with…
The Grandest of Hotels
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/21Oct15-Roanoke-Hotel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)At one time is was the grandest of hotels in the state of Virginia. But the wheels of time eventually…
The Cornerstone to a Large City
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/20Oct15-Roanoke-Hotel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What’s it take to build a large city? A railroad and nice hotel of course. It was a winning combination…
Remembering Grandma Saunders
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/19Oct15-Grandma-Saunders.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)My grandmother Darlene Saunders passed last week and today I’ll be a pall bearer at her funeral. So today I…
The Soo
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/16Oct15-Soo-Locks-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Locals often simply call it “The Soo.” Ships know the place for the locks that help move them from one…
