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Remembering the Civil War in Atlanta
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/13Aug13-Atlanta-Cyclorama-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)It’s been over a century and a half since the beginning of the U.S. Civil War, yet many Americans are…
Vermont’s Only National Park
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/12Aug13-Marsh-Billings-Rockafeller.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ve heard of Yellowstone and Yosemite, but try naming the State of Vermont’s only national park…
Surviving the Romanians and the Nazis
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/09Aug13-Paula-Neuman-Gris-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Paula Neuman Gris, her mother and younger sister had survived life in a forced labor camp at the hands of…
The Holocaust From the Eyes of a Child
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/08Aug13-Paula-Neuman-Gris-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Paula Newman Gris was but six years old, but the decision she was about to make could impact her life…
The Difficult Stories of Surviving the Holocaust
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/07Aug13-Paula-Neuman-Gris-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Paula Neuman Gris was but three years old when her family began to be torn apart by the Holocaust. Although…
Scenic Route 13: Paula Neuman Gris
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/ScenicRoute-013c.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 39:10 — 26.9MB)On this edition of The Scenic Route, Andrew talks to Paula Neuman Gris, who was just three years old when…
A Holocaust Survivor’s Story
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/06Aug13-Paula-Neuman-Gris-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Over the next few days you’ll be hearing from Paula Neuman Gris, a girl of only four years of age…
A Nice Place Called Peculiar
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/05Aug13-Peculiar-Missouri.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Not all of us can live in a normal place. While most of the nation resides in cities that are…
More on Lake Bemidji
Wednesday’s show featured information on the statue of Paul Bunyan and Babe, his trusty blue ox sidekick, on the shores of Lake Bemidji. That’s a…
Paul & Babe on the Shores of Lake Bemidji
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/02Aug13-Paul-Bunyan-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)On the shores of Lake Bemidji stand Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox. The pair have been immortalized in…
Paul Bunyan & Babe the Blue Ox
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/01Aug13-Paul-Bunyan-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Just about all of us have heard of him and most of us would say he’s just a make believe…
Native American Portraits
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/31Jul13-St-Joseph-Native-American-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What on the surface may appear to be just a bunch of paintings of important Native American leaders, is actually…
Visiting St. Joseph, Mo.
We’ve spent a lot of time in historic St. Joseph, Missouri, over the past week. If any of our shows piqued your interested and have…
Fashion from Three Hundred Years Ago
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/30Jul13-St-Joseph-Native-American-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)You may believe the fashions of two hundred and three hundred years ago was drab and uninspiring. Come to this…
Adding to the Show-Me State
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/29Jul13-St-Joseph-Native-American-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)When the state of Missouri was first established, it was missing what is today its northwest corner of six counties. …
Civil War Deaths Off the Battlefield
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/26Jul13-Civil-War-Medicine-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)Many soldiers died in the Civil War to things uncommon today. Simple adjustments in sanitation and cleanliness were a big part…
Raising the Civil War Death Toll
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/25Jul13-Civil-War-Medicine-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)In recent years, the casualty estimates from the Civil War have been raised. Joe Houts says there’s a good reason for…
Medicine in the Civil War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/24Jul13-Civil-War-Medicine-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)Most of us would do good just to know the name of our great, great grandfather. Joe Houts not only knows…
History’s First House Flipper?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/23Jul13-William-Wyeth-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)Imagine building a grand, castle-like home for your wife, only to have her grow tired of it just a few…
The St. Joe Seven: Great Experiences In One of the Midwest’s Most Historic Towns
All this week, The American Countryside is in St. Joseph, Missouri. I’ve been around St. Joe for most of my life and here are seven…
