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Prisoners of War in the Midwest
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/23Jul15-Concordia-POW-Camp-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)During World War II thousands of enemy soldiers taken as prisoners of war where housed in hastily built camps in…
A Place Surprising To Both Sides
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/22Jul15-Concordia-POW-Camp-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When the Allies began the fight against Germany in World War II, they began to take prisoners of war. Some…
Misery Among Beauty
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/21Jul15-Alcatraz-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This island has some of the best views of San Francisco Bay and the city itself…yet most people didn’t want…
The Story of One Very Famous Rock
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/20Jul15-Alcatraz-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)At one time it was one of the nation’s most important forts…but that’s not how people would know it today…
Not the Man For His Daughter
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/17Jul15-JFK-Birthplace-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)There was no doubt in Fitz’s mind that Joe was not the man for his daughter. The story of what…
What Looks Like Another Street in Suburban Boston
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/16Jul15-JFK-Birthplace-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Beals Street looks to be just another street in suburban Boston. But one house here is special, as it’s a…
All About Pirates
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/15Jul15-St-Thomas-Pirates-3-v2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)I recently had a fun conversation with a man who knows all about pirates. And he can set the record…
An Early Tourist Trap
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/14Jul15-St-Thomas-Pirates-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)If a vacation spot tried to sell you all kinds of tacky trinkets and charged you a mint to enter…
Pirates Roaming the Seas in Search of Treasure
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/13Jul15-St-Thomas-Pirates-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)We’ve all heard stories of pirates roaming the seas in search of golden treasure. It’s true there were men roaming…
More With Holocaust Survivor Judy Straus
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/10Jul15-Judy-Straus-5.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)We conclude our story with Holocaust survivor Judy Straus. If you’ve missed any of her story of tragedy and triumph,…
Lives In Jeopardy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/09Jul15-Judy-Straus-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)As the end of World War II in Europe drew ever closer, the Germans stepped up the pace of sending…
Nazi Death Camps Through the Eyes of a Child
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/08Jul15-Judy-Straus-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The scenes from Nazi death camps were staggering. Now imagine experiencing those horros through the eyes of a child. That…
The Nazis Invade Home
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/07Jul15-Judy-Straus-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The Straus family left Germany in the 1930s to escape the rising power of Adolf Hitler. Then, in the early…
Holocaust Survivor Judy Straus
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/06Jul15-Judy-Straus-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)This week we visit with Judy Straus, a survivor of the Holocaust Her story is one of tragedy and hope…and…
A Reminder of the Cost of Freedom
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/03Jul15-Tomb-Guard-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Every independence day we celebrate our freedom. This soldier is reminded of the cost of that freedom…as he protects the…
Wearing The Uniform
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/02Jul15-Tomb-Guard-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Some jobs require you to wear a uniform. Imagine a job where that uniform had to be worn with perfection…where…
Campaigning Against Another Player
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/01Jul15-Carl-Mays-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Ty Cobb was a great baseball player, but he was also known as a guy who would bend and break…
A Baseball Career Not Recognized By Cooperstown
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/30Jun15-Carl-Mays-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Carl Mays had a career worthy of the baseball hall of fame, however many in his hometown will tell you…
A Gun Without Bullets
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/29Jun15-Carl-Mays-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Some boys grow up hunting animals in the woods. That was the case for Carl Mays, but he didn’t use…
The Colville Indian Reservation
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/26Jun15-Colville-Indian-Reservation-2015.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The name of their current tribal home is not an ancestral name, but rather the name of a fort where…
