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An Alaskan Dairy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/22Sep15-Havemiester-Dairy-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)This family’s dairy herd is not large when compared to the nation. They joke that to get repairs for their…
The First Farmers to Come to Alaska
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/21Sep15-Havemiester-Dairy-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some of the first farmers in Alaska came here in the 1930s. They were called colonists and many picked up…
The Most Visited Area of the Fair
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/18Sep15-Alaska-State-Fair-Vegetable-Superintendant-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What’s the most visited area of a state fair? Here it’s the crops department. It may sound unusual until you…
The Northernmost State Fair
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/17Sep15-Alaska-State-Fair-Vegetable-Superintendant-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Just about all of us have been to our state’s fair. This year we’re taking you to the northernmost such…
A Five-Time World Record Holder
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/16Sep15-Alaska-Vegetable-Grower-Scott-Robb-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)Scott Robb holds five world records. That fact makes him a well recognized man among Alaskan farmers and among those…
The Best in His Category
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/15Sep15-Alaska-Vegetable-Grower-Scott-Robb-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Imagine a record that stood for over a century. That’s quite a mark to be broken, but today, Scott Robb…
Plenty of Hours to Get Things Done
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/14Sep15-Alaska-Vegetable-Grower-Scott-Robb-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Sometimes you might wish you just had more hours of the day to get things done. For a portion of…
A Route to Healing
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/11Sep15-Holocaust-Survivor-Eva-Kor-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s sometimes difficult to forgive someone. In this case, Eva was willing to forgive the perpetrators of murders against her…
Taken From Mother’s Arms
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/10Sep15-Holocaust-Survivor-Eva-Kor-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Their story is one that will make you cry. Ten year old twin girls, taken from their mothers arms –…
Holocaust Survivor Eva Kor
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/09Sep15-Holocaust-Survivor-Eva-Kor-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we begin a three part series with Eva Kor, a Holocaust survivor with a story you won’t want to…
The Capulin Volcano
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/08Sep15-Capulin-Volcano-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many people traveling in northeast New Mexico pass this site and fail to realize the historical significance and the amazing…
Inside the Volcano Crater
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/07Sep15-Capulin-Volcano-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Which state has the most volcanoes? The answer will most likely surprise you. We’ll head to the crater…
A Town Named Young
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/04Sep15-Young-Arizona.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)It’s just a small town of about 500 people. You’ve driven through bunches of them. But you probably have not…
Owning A Gold & Silver Mine
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/03Sep15-Good-Enough-Mine-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Not many people set out to own a historic gold and silver mine. That was the case for Andre, but…
The Good Enough Mine
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/02Sep15-Good-Enough-Mine-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)When the first miners hit veins of ore here, they knew it was “good enough” to open a profitable mine. …
What Once Was Called Goose Flats
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/01Sep15-Good-Enough-Mine-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Not many folks have heard of Goose Flats, Arizona. After all, the most exciting thing in Goose Flats was the…
Meet A Childhood Idol
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/31Aug15-Jack-Dempsey-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)We all had people we idolized as youngsters. Perhaps they were movie or sports stars. Maybe you even got to…
The Heavyweight Boxing Champ
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/28Aug15-Jack-Dempsey-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When Jack Dempsey held the heavyweight boxing title, he had to defend his belt against the world’s top fighters…and one…
Don’t Call Him a Big Baby
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/27Aug15-Jack-Dempsey-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)If you called someone a “big baby” you would probably insult them as a whining coward. Jack WAS a big…
The Story of Hi Jolly
In Quartzite, Arizona you can find the grave of Hi Jolly. It’s the Americanized name of a man responsible for transporting many of the supplies…
