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A Place Dubbed Bombingham
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/09/18Sep14-Birmingham-Civil-Rights-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was time for change, but for those who spoke out, their life was in grave danger, in a place…
Passionate for the Cause
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/09/17Sep14-Birmingham-Civil-Rights-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The attack on this pastor’s home was meant to kill him. Instead, it inspired him. In fact, those who wanted…
The Life of a Winemaker
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/09/16Sep14-California-Organic-Winemaker-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Just as a chef might experiment with many ingredients to find the perfect dish, a winemaker works with a multitude of…
A Unique California Vineyard
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/09/15Sep14-California-Organic-Winemaker-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The state of California has great diversity in its agriculture. Part of that industry is it’s thriving vineyards and wineries…
If You Build It, They Will Come–Two Grand Hotels
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/08/12Sep14-French-Lick-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In the movie “Field of Dreams”, a farmer builds a baseball field in the middle of his corn field. Perhaps the…
A Famous Front Porch
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/08/11Sep14-French-Lick-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Many homes have a front porch. It can be a place to relax and simply enjoy the outdoors. In this town,…
Trophies From the Game of Basketball
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/08/10Sep14-Larry-Bird-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most museums will put the artifacts behind glass, not to be touched. Sure it’s interesting to look, but it might…
The Birthplace of a Basketball Legend
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/08/09Sep14-Larry-Bird-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many of our towns and cities have people that we look up to. Perhaps they aren’t known to the rest of…
The Birthplace of Stephen Douglas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/08/08Sep14-Stephen-Douglas-Birthplace.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Abraham Lincoln led the country through the Civil War, but it was this man who defeated him for the Senate…
Keep Your Clothes On! Inside Gadsby’s Tavern
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/08/05Sep14-Gadsbys-Tavern-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine staying in a hotel that encouraged you to sleep with your clothes and shoes on so that you could make…
A Tavern With a Rich History
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/08/04Sep14-Gadsbys-Tavern-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Many of the homes and businesses in Alexandria, Virginia can trace their history to the founding of the nation. That’s true…
El Cuartelejo
Near Kansas’ border with Colorado you can find a place called El Cuartelejo. It’s the ruins of an ancient home who’s occupants were on the run from…
Pueblo Dwellings in Kansas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/08/02Sep14-Scott-City-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In western Kansas you can find the foundations for an old Native American settlement. Perhaps that doesn’t seem too out of…
A Natural Wonder of Kansas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/08/01Sep14-Monument-Rocks.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s one of the natural wonders of Kansas. A place of white spires rising from the prairie plains that have been…
Cyrus McCormick and His Threshing Machine
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/29Aug14-Cyrus-McCormick.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)For centuries, crops were cut and threshed by hand. That all changed with a young farmer in Virginia. This is…
Building a Utopian Society
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/28Aug14-New-Harmony-Indiana-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1825, Robert Own of Wales, purchased an entire town in the state of Indiana. His dream was to create a…
A Place Called Harmony
Harmony. It might be defined as finding peace with one’s self and one another. That’s what the people who established the town of Harmony were looking…
A Long-Established Community
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/26Aug14-New-Harmony-Indiana-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are many reasons people came from Europe to the newly founded United States. Some came to find freedom to…
Developing the Self Scouring Plow
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/25Aug14-John-Deere-Plow.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Although you may associate his name with tractors, he never saw one. Yet his name is synonymous with the equipment used…
Burning the White House
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/22Aug14-White-House-1812-War-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It was an act that seemed unthinkable. Another nation’s army marched into the United States capital and burned its most important government…
