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San Marcos Resort
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/03/27Mar15-San-Marcos-Resort.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.7MB) Phoenix, Arizona has plenty of golf resorts that attract thousands of visitors, but ask someone who established the first…
From Board Room to the Classroom
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/03/26Mar15-Bloch-Brothers-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.8MB) What happens when the CEO of a major corporation decides he wants to begin teaching middle school math? It’s…
H&R Block Career Change
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/03/25Mar15-Bloch-Brothers-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.8MB) Tom Bloch’s father and uncle founded H&R Block, a company that Tom eventually led as CEO. But there was…
H&R Block
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/03/24Mar15-Bloch-Brothers-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.8MB) There are some folks that think they can run your business better than you can. In this case, the…
The Bloch Brothers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/03/23Mar15-Bloch-Brothers-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.8MB) Very few people like to figure their taxes and even fewer like to pay them. But this pair of…
Oklahoma Oil
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/03/20Mar15-Oklahoma-Oil-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 4.1MB) The price of oil is a figure many Americans closely follow. Now imagine a time when the price dipped…
Striking Oil at the Governor’s Mansion
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/03/19Mar15-Oklahoma-Oil-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 4.1MB) If you struck oil underneath your home, well you might just move in order to strike it rich. But…
Glen Miller – Musician and Soldier
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/03/18Mar15-Glen-Miller-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 4.1MB) He was one of the most famous Americans in the early 1940s…a man who was making up to $20,000…
Glen Miller – Hitmaker
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/03/17Mar15-Glen-Miller-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 4.1MB) Even if you are not old enough to have enjoyed this man’s music when he originally created it, there’s…
It Started with a Trombone
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/03/16Mar15-Glen-Miller-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB) The gentleman who ran a store in Grant City, Missouri could have never imagined what would happen when…
Clark’s Trading Post
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/03/13March15-Clarks-Trading-Post-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.7MB) Imagine a animal show where bears bolted from the stage to barrel past tourist and make a break for…
A Roadside Stopper
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/03/12March15-Clarks-Trading-Post-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB) Along I-93 in northern New Hampshire you’ll find a spot that’s been attracting families for three and four generations…
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…
