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Scenic Route: Inside the World Trade Center

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/01/ScenicRoute_JoeCarillo.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 23:29 — 16.1MB)If you were old enough to remember September 11th, 2001, you know exactly where you were when you heard the…

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Beautiful Works of Restoration

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/17Jan14-Pool-Table-Restoration.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)To say Joe Newell restores pool tables is like saying Michelangelo was just a painter. The work Joe does is…

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Posted in American Countryside Kansas

A Game of Basketball in the Rain

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/16Jan14-Basketball-History-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Football is a game played in the elements.  Mud, rain, ice and snow may impact the game.  Now imagine if…

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The First Olympic Games with Basketball

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/15Jan14-Basketball-History-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)1936 was the first time the Olympics recognized the game of basketball as an official sport.  In the U.S., AAU,…

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The Globe Refiners

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/14Jan14-Basketball-History-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ve heard of basketball teams like the Lakers, Bulls and Celtics.  But what about the Globe Refiners?  Turn back the…

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A Winter Sport for Young Men & Women

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/13Jan14-Basketball-History-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It all began as a way for young men and women to have a sport to play during the winter. …

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Posted in American Countryside Kansas

A Deer in the Courthouse

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/10Jan14-Chase-County-Courthouse-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A deer that runs loose inside the courthouse might cause a scene.  Now imagine enraged residents chaining themselves to trees…

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Posted in American Countryside Kansas

The County Seat of Chase County, Kansas

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/09Jan14-Chase-County-Courthouse-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Cottonwood Falls is the county seat of Chase County, Kansas.  The town has just over 900 people, but don’t let…

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Posted in American Countryside Oklahoma

The World’s Tallest

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/08Jan14-Worlds-Tallest-Hill.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)It is one of the highest points in the world and it isn’t out of reach for any climber, no…

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Posted in American Countryside Oklahoma

A Hotel on the Frontier

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/07Jan14-Poteau-Oklahoma-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine a six story hotel in a place some would consider the frontier border of Oklahoma and Arkansas.  That was…

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A Place Called Poteau

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/06Jan14-Poteau-Oklahoma-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Most folks aren’t quite sure how to pronounce the name of this town.   The name looks like it belongs to…

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A Method to Your Work

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/Methodist-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.4MB)If you do something the same way day after day, you might be said to have a method to your…

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Encountering Trying Times

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/Methodist-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)On the southeast coast of Georgia you can find the place were these brothers encountered one of their most trying…

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Best of 2013: Big Bud

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/01Jan14-Best-of-2013-Big-Bud.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)Deere, Case, Oliver, Ford and Allis-Chalmers…they are but a few of …..many companies that have built tractors. The largest tractor…

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Best of 2013: Inside the Presidential Limo

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/31Dec13-Best-of-2013-Presidential-Limo.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may have heard people say that President Kennedy would have never been assassinated in Dallas if he ordered the…

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Best of 2013: A Viking Ship

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/30Dec13-Best-of-2013-Viking-Ship.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)On the surface it seemed to be a ludicrous project.  A man with no experience building boats, was going to…

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Best of 2013: Arecibo Observatory

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/27Dec13-Best-of-2013-Arecibo-Observatory.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)On occasion you may here a story about an asteroid making a close pass to our planet. So who tells…

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The Best of 2013: Antelope Island

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/26Dec13-Best-of-2013-Antelope-Island.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Every fall there is a round-up of the herd here just outside of Salt Lake City, Utah.  You can even…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Missouri

The Only Noel

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/25Dec13-Noel-Missouri.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)At Christmas we may sing, “The First Noel.”  In the United States, this is the “Only Noel.”  Confused?  Join me…

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Twas the Night Before Christmas

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/24Dec13-Night-Before-Christmas.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)We know the words of “’twas the night before Christmas;” words that helped solidify the image of Santa over 200…

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