http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/30Jun14-Gettysburg-Chaplain-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A soldier needs many resources in battle. One of those items is perhaps most important, yet intangible. It’s the importance…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/27Jun14-World-War-I-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s difficult for many of us to name many specific battles or events in World War I.  We may have…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/26Jun14-World-War-I-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some say the event that began the first World War occurred on June 28, 1914…a century ago.  Today we take…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/25Jun14-World-War-I-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)This week marks 100 years since the world faced its first global conflict.  It was a war that would engulf…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/24Jun14-Center-of-the-Hemisphere.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Head west on highway 29 from Wausau, Wisconsin, then turned north, back west, then back north…and then, find yourself next to…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/23Jun14-Circus-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It all began with Albert, Otto, Alfred, Charles, and John. Without their last names, those first names might not mean…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/20Jun14-Ernest-Hemmingway-Home-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you walk around Key West, Florida, there’s a good chance you may encounter a most unusual type of cat….

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/19Jun14-Ernest-Hemmingway-Home-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s the single largest residential property in Key West, Florida.  The couple who lived here led lives that most of…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/18Jun14-Ernest-Hemmingway-Home-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Replacing your ceiling fans with Parisian chandeliers might be an upgrade. That’s what this decorator believed to be the case. …

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/17Jun14-Ernest-Hemmingway-Home-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)We’ll be in Key West, Florida for the next installments of our stories, taking a look at well-known author, Ernest…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/16Jun14-Chandler-Arizona-Show-Pigs.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You don’t expect to see 400 hogs in the middle of a city, but that’s what’s happening in the Phoenix…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/13Jun14-Pine-Creek-Mill-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)Retirees are often looking for a good cause to which to devote their time. Not many take up grinding flour…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/12Jun14-Pine-Creek-Mill-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)People near Muscatine have always known of a place called Pine Creek Mill, but for most of the 20th century,…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/11Jun14-Wausau-Insurance.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)There’s a good chance you’ve never been to this railroad depot.  However, if you’re over forty years old, there’s a…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/10Jun14-Wausau-Vietnam-Exhibit-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Most people consider graffiti a visual nuisance, something to be removed and forgotten.  The type of graffiti on this ship…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/09Jun14-Wausau-Vietnam-Exhibit-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In the 1960s, ships like the General Nelson M Walker took thousands of men across the Pacific to the war…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/06Jun14-Methodist-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)If you do something the same way day after day, you might be said to have a method to your…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/05Jun14-Roy-Hawthorne-Navajo-Codetalker-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Roy Hawthorne had three brothers who had already volunteered for the Army.  So when Roy was 17, he too joined…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/04Jun14-Roy-Hawthorne-Navajo-Codetalker-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Our series with Navajo codetalker, Roy Hawthorne continues today.  Remember, you can hear the full interview on the Scenic Route…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/03Jun14-Roy-Hawthorne-Navajo-Codetalker-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When World War II began, many men here in Navajo country volunteered for the armed forces.  Some of those men…