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Dancing With a Spring In Your Step
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/10/21Oct14-Wausau-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most people like to work in buildings that have a solid floor underneath them. The fact that this place has a…
An Important Product to Keep the Economy Afloat
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/10/20Oct14-Wausau-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This city had one important product that kept its economy afloat. That’s because the product, actually floated. Sound confusing? We’ll unravel…
The Philipse Manor
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/10/17Oct14-Philipse-Manor.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)When America won her independence, there were thousands of men and women who remained loyal to England during the war….
The French Lick Railroad
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/09/16Oct14-French-Lick-Scenic-Railway-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The heyday of passenger rail travel was about a century ago. But don’t tell that to the folks in southern Indiana,…
The Healing Waters of French Lick
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/09/15Oct14-French-Lick-Scenic-Railway-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Airlines might devote more flights to popular winter destinations like Phoenix or Florida. One hundred years ago they were adding trains…
The Fromm Brothers Fur Trade
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/09/14Oct14-Fromm-Fur-Farm-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the woods of northern Wisconsin there is a lodge that housed some of the leading businessman of the world. They…
Sly As A Fox
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/09/13Oct14-Fromm-Fur-Farm-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Fromm Brothers might be said to have been as “sly as a fox.” That’s because their business plan led them…
A Frontier Superhero
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/09/10Oct14-Kit-Carson-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Comic books tell the story of larger than life characters. In the mid 1800s, the comic books of the days took…
What You Know and Who You Know
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/09/09Oct14-Kit-Carson-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes it’s not what you know but who you know. In Kit Carson’s case, it was both that made him a…
A Well Known Frontiersman
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/09/08Oct14-Kit-Carson-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This well-known frontiersman loved to hear the stories of those traveling west. One day, he decided it was time to sneak…
A Place For Pony Express Riders to Stay
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/09/07Oct14-Hollenberg-Pony-Express-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The pony express was in operation for just a little over a year, however the story of horses and riders racing…
Location, Location, Location
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/09/06Oct14-Hollenberg-Pony-Express-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They say that in real estate, the three most important things are location, location, location. That was true even in the…
A President and a Cherry Tree
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/09/03Oct14-George-Washington-Cherry-Tree-2014.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes a person gains so much fame, they become bigger than life. So is that the case when we hear…
Inside a Safari Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/09/02Oct14-Safari-Museum-2014.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Osa Johnson was certainly not an imposing figure, but give her a gun and she could drop some of the…
A Trip to An Historic Church
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/09/01Oct14-Christ-Church-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Civil War produced many encounters where former friends found them themselves on opposite sides of the conflict. That fact was…
A Host to Presidents Since Washington
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/09/30Sep14-Christ-Church-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Perhaps no church has hosted more national leaders over the past two centuries than this one. In fact, you can still…
Paying to Sit in Church
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/09/29Sep14-Christ-Church-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some people sit in the exact same spot in church every Sunday. This president did the exact same thing, but he…
A Strange Meeting
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/09/26Sep14-Brandywine-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was a strange meeting – a British general requested the assistance of an American signer of the Declaration of…
A Battle Lost But An Army Respected
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/09/25Sep14-Brandywine-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was a place the new American nation lost, yet won – a battlefield where they stood ground for six consecutive…
The Battle of Brandywine
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/09/24Sep14-Brandywine-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the first years of the American Revolution, General Washington lost many battles, but he always survived to fight another day. …
