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The Message of the Mailbox
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/10Apr14-Brookfield-Missouri-Mailboxes.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Mailboxes come in many shapes, colors and sizes. But the mailboxes given as gifts every May in Brookfield, Missouri are…
The Impression of an Actor
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/09Apr14-Brookfield-MO-John-Wilkes-Booth-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Everyone knows John Wilkes Booth as the assassin of President Lincoln. However, before his deadly deed in April 1865, he…
John Wilke Booth’s Stay in Missouri
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/08Apr14-Brookfield-MO-John-Wilkes-Booth-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)John was a well known actor who traveled the nation in a variety of productions. In fact, a journey to…
Overwhelming Dead in Gettysburg
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/07Apr14-Gettysburg-Shriver-House-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The numbers of dead and wounded soldiers and horses overwhelmed the population of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in 1863. It was up…
The Impact of Gettysburg
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/04Apr14-Gettysburg-Shriver-House-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most people who visit Gettysburg, Pennsylvania tour the battlefield and learn about the fighting that took place in the first…
Getting Caught in the Battle of Gettysburg
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/03Apr14-Gettysburg-Shriver-House-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the battle began here in Gettysburg, Hettie Shriver and her two young daughters left town and went to stay with…
The Dangers of Being Kicked By A Cow
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/02Apr14-Eisenhower-Farm-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you’ve spent much time around cattle, there’s a good chance you’ve been kicked. The right blow can put a…
The Eisenhower Farm
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/01Apr14-Eisenhower-Farm-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It may be an overstatement to proclaim that a herd of cattle helped thaw the cold war. However a visit…
The President’s Farm
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/31Mar14-Eisenhower-Farm-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many U.S. presidents grew up on a farm. However, their duties as chief executive often took them away from rural…
Sitting Bull
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/28Mar14-Sitting-Bull.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He is one of the greatest Indian chiefs ever to lead his tribes in peace and battle. Ironically, two different…
Nick’s Hamburger Shop
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/27Mar14-Brookings-South-Dakota-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This hamburger shop has been around longer that just about everyone living in Brookings, South Dakota. When you’ve been in…
Why Brookings?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/26Mar14-Brookings-South-Dakota-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Just about every town has a namesake. Perhaps it’s a president, general or early settler whose name was chosen to identify…
The Jumpin’ Jesse James
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/03/25Mar14-Devils-Gulch-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)After a failed bank robbery attempt in Northfield, Minnesota, the James gang headed west toward the Dakota Territory. Near what…
Devil’s Gulch
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/03/24Mar14-Devils-Gulch-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Long before Europeans ever discovered this deep ravine, native Americans had been coming here. It was a sacred place they…
A Permanent Trip to Luckenbach
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/21Mar14-Luckenbach-Texas-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)Hayden Whittington began driving to Luckenbach, Texas before most people had ever heard of it. He remembers the days when…
Back to Luckenbach, Texas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/20Mar14-Luckenbach-Texas-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:03 — 2.1MB)This town has been on the map since the 1840s. Yet many would tell you no one every came looking…
A Ghost Town with a Steady Stream of Visitors
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/19Mar14-Luckenbach-Texas-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In the hill country surrounding Fredericksburg, Texas, there are many communities settled by German immigrants. They became place to get…
The Barbershop of the Famous Haircut
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/18Mar14-Elvis-Barbershop-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Next to Delilah’s shearing of strongman Samson, it’s perhaps the most famous haircut in history. Many young ladies wondered if…
Elvis Joins the Army
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/17Mar14-Elvis-Barbershop-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)From 1958 to 1960, Elvis Pressley was part of the active military. He spent time at Ft. Hood, Texas and…
The Sailing Capitol of the United States
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/14Mar14-Annapolis.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It is known as the sailing capitol of the United States. It also happens to be a state capitol, a…
