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A Place Called Hildene
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/03/11March15-Hildene-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.7MB) Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky and lived most of his adult years in Illinois. But where did future…
The Son of a US President
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/03/10March15-Hildene-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.7MB) Being the son of a U.S. president has its perks. However, it does provide a very high bar of…
Chiricuhua National Monument
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/08Mar15-Chiricuhua-National-Monument-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Southeastern Arizona has been a place for ranchers to graze cattle for well over a century. However, one ranch family…
Stone Spires Rising Into the Sky
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/05Mar15-Tombstone-Arizona-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s a place of amazing natural beauty, with stone spires rising high into the sky. It’s also a place of…
A Place of Respect
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/05Mar15-Tombstone-Arizona-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Many would consider this cemetery to be a tourist attraction. Yet it doesn’t charge admission and is a place of…
A Place Called Boot Hill
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/03Mar15-Tombstone-Arizona-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)There are several cemeteries in the west called “Boot Hill.” That’s because many of the dead died with their boots…
Tomahawk Throwing
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/02Mar15-Tomahawk-Maker-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Perhaps you’ve seen a circus side show or an old Western where people threw tomahawks for sport. It’s a competition…
Well Known For Craftsmanship
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/27Feb15-Tomahawk-Maker-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)This young man began his enterprise at the age of only ten…and now, just a few years out of high…
All Seven Stories With A Ground Floor
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/26Feb15-Eureka-Springs-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Imagine a seven story hotel in which each floor is a ground floor. We’ll take you to the town where…
Water Is Their Livelihood
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/25Feb15-Eureka-Springs-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)If you think water is just water, then don’t tell the folks in this small town, because it’s the water…
The Salton Sea
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/24Feb15-Salton-Sea-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s a lake with an elevation of over 200 feet below sea level. It’s also a body of water with…
The Largest Lake In California
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/23Feb15-Salton-Sea-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s the largest lake in California. So large, in fact, it’s called a sea. You couldn’t find this lake on…
President’s Week: William Howard Taft
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/20Feb15-Presidents-Week-5.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)He was the only man to serve as president and chief justice, but most people that visit his home here…
President’s Week: Theodore Roosevelt
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/19Feb15-Presidents-Week-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)To date, no U.S. president has been born in North Dakota…but this commander-in-chief experienced a rebirth there that he said…
President’s Week: John Tyler
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/18Feb15-Presidents-Week-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)This president set the record for having the most children with a total of 15. His second wife was actually…
President’s Week: Millard Fillmore
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/17Feb15-Presidents-Week-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most people want to elect a president who knows a little, if not a lot about how to govern a…
President’s Week: Martin Van Buren
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/16Feb15-Presidents-Week-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This is the man people may have forgot was even President, the man who followed Andrew Jackson…
A Funeral Just Like That
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/13Feb15-New-Mellary-Abbey.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When people began attending funerals here, many had the exact same reaction. They mentioned that when they passed, they wanted…
The Clover of 4-H
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/12Feb15-4-H-Clover.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)The 4-H Program is now over a century old and many people recognize the familiar green clover that symbolizes those…
Hallowed Ground in a Field
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/11Feb15-Clear-Lake-Iowa-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)In northern Iowa you will find many picturesque corn and soybean fields dotting the landscape. But one of these fields…
