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Factors That Influence Vehichle Purchases

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/29Jul14-RAM-Truck-CEO-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What influences someone to buy a new car?  Is it great wealth, cool styles, or maybe a clunker that bit…

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Posted in American Countryside Indiana

Automakers After the Great Recession

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/28Jul14-RAM-Truck-CEO-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s been dubbed the Great Recession…the economic downturn of that began in 2009.  One of the industries hardest hit were…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Oklahoma

A Hangar to Park a Plane

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/25Jul14-Frank-Phillips-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)When Frank bought a plane he needed a hangar in which to park it. Soon the plane wasn’t the only…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Oklahoma

The Phillips Home

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/24Jul14-Frank-Phillips-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)The president of this oil company was looking for a place to entertain business leaders from the east coast and…

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Posted in American Countryside Colorado

The Best Climate to Help Ease An Ailment

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/23Jul14-Pikes-Peak-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Today we may rely on the latest advancements in science and medicine to help cure disease.  Of course, in the…

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Posted in American Countryside Colorado

James’ Peak

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/22Jul14-Pikes-Peak-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ve perhaps never heard of James’ Peak.  It more accurate to say you’ve heard of the mountain, but you simply…

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Posted in American Countryside Colorado

A Landmark With a Name

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/21Jul14-Pikes-Peak-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)As Lewis and Clark headed west and north in 1803 to explore the newly acquire Louisiana Purchase, another explorer headed…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Michigan

Going to Hell

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/07/18Jul14-Hell-Michigan.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We go to great lengths to gather the stories you here on this program…and this time we literally went to…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Michigan

The Inventor of the First Automobile

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/07/17Jul14-Elwood-Haynes.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Who invented the first automobile?  You might be surprised that it wasn’t Henry Ford…but this man from Kokomo, Indiana…

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Posted in American Countryside Colorado

A Landmark Burned to the Ground

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/07/16Jul14-Bents-Old-Fort-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was perhaps the most important stop on the entire length of the Santa Fe Trail. However, under two decades…

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Posted in American Countryside Colorado

800 Miles and One Stop

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/07/15Jul14-Bents-Old-Fort-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Today you can travel down just about any interstate highway in America and find plenty of truck stops. Now turn…

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Posted in American Countryside Colorado

An Enterprising Fort

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/07/14Jul14-Bents-Old-Fort-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When you think of forts in the western U.S., you may remember military fortresses built to keep the peace and…

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President Lincoln at the Gettysburg Depot

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/11Jul14-Gettysburg-Depot-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)There was a mix of emotions when President Lincoln stepped onto the platform at this Gettysburg, Pennsylvania railroad depot.  There…

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A Historic Railroad Depot

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/10Jul14-Gettysburg-Depot-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many communities have saved and then restored their old rail depots.  That’s the case for this small Pennsylvania town.  However,…

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Posted in American Countryside Pennsylvania

The Luckiest Elephant Man in America

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/11Jul14-Gettysburg-Depot-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Some people believe that a elephant figurine will bring you good luck.  If that is true, Ed Gotwald is the…

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Posted in American Countryside Pennsylvania

A Collection That Went Viral

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/08Jul14-Eds-Elephant-Collection-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Lots of people collect things.  Sometimes the story of how and why they began collecting is more interesting than the…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Pennsylvania

A Famous Inventor

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/07Jul14-Inventor-Benjamin-Franklin.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)His first invention involved a kite–and perhaps his most famous discovery involved one too…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Virginia Washington, DC

Honoring America’s Heroes

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/04Jul14-Tomb-Guard.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Every independence day we celebrate our freedom. This soldier is reminded of the cost of that freedom as he protects…

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Posted in American Countryside Civil War National Battlefield National Park Service

A Chaplain in the Civil War

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/03Jul14-Gettysburg-Chaplain-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In the fall of 1861, Father William Corby, a Notre Dame educated priest, not yet 30 years old, joined the…

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A Small Rock Marking a Big Impact

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/02Jul14-Gettysburg-Chaplain-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are hundreds of monuments here at Gettysburg National Battlefield. Many times it’s difficult to know the story behind each…

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