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One of The Largest Sheep Export Cities in the World
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/17Dec13-Kethchum-Sheep.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)When the silver ran out, the sheep moved in–thousands of them, in fact. This place became one of the largest…
A POW-built Nativity
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/16Dec13-Algona-Iowa-Nativity.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)It was Christmas 1945. German POWs at Camp Algona in Algona, Iowa would be returning to Europe the next year….
The Heisman Runner-Up
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/13Dec13-Leroy-Keyes.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)In 1968, O.J Simpson won the Heisman Trophy, but it was this man who was runner-up in the Heisman balloting…
That Will Be a Half-Cent, Mr. President
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/12Dec13-Lincoln-Pittsfield-Illinois-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Toll roads have been around as long as the nation. Today those tolls are often paid on multi-lane turnpikes, often…
The Cannon That Fired Too Soon
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/11Dec13-Lincoln-Pittsfield-Illinois-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When you’re in Pittsfield, Illinois, enjoy the chance to drive around the city and listen to stories on your car…
A Frequent Visitor
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/10Dec13-Lincoln-Pittsfield-Illinois-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we say hello to out listeners on WBBA in Pittsfield, Illinois. Listeners there know that just over a century…
Keith’s Cafe
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/09Dec13-Keiths-Cafe.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In Memphis, Missouri, there’s a café where great food has been served for about 65 years now. This is the…
The County Seat War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/06Dec13-Kansas-Oil-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)A county seat is an important place. It is after all the place were legal papers are stored, trials are…
Boom or Bust
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/05Dec13-Kansas-Oil-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.7MB)Oil, gas and minerals often bring towns periods of boom and bust. Each new discovery brings a swell of workers…
The Kansas Oil Boom
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/04Dec13-Kansas-Oil-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.7MB)You may not think of this state as a top producing oil area. However, turn back the clock about a…
The Denver Sleigh Works
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/03Dec13-Denver-Sleigh-Works.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Santa needs a sleigh to make deliveries around the world. This man makes sure he will never run out of…
A Store For the Holidays
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/02Dec13-Holiday-Christmas-Store.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If Santa Claus needed a place to buy all of his decorations, this would be it. This big business in…
Grilling the Turkey
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/29Nov13-Turkey-Grilling.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Thanksgiving is the time most Americans talk turkey, but Sheerleen Clausen hopes to change that they’ll think of turkey every…
Your Face on the Side of a Semi
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/28Nov13-Fred-Mares-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Each of the communities that we call home can claim outstanding individuals who go the extra mile when it comes…
A Helpful Smile In Every Aisle
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/27Nov13-Fred-Mares-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Image a man who speaks over ten languages, can play multiple musical instruments and serenade customers with his wonderful voice….
Inside the Brown Hotel
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/26Nov13-Brown-Hotel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)It’s not everyday you check into a hotel and catch a fish in the lobby. It’s just one of the…
A Motivation to Start Your Own Business
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/25Nov13-Brown-Hotel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)James Graham Brown never forgot the day he was refused service at a Louisville business. The event served as a…
Inside Trauma Room One at Parkland Hospital
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/22Nov13-JFK-Nurse-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Trauma Room One at Parkland Hospital is a place Phyllis Hall knew well. As a nurse, she had worked in…
A Part of Presidential History in Dallas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/21Nov13-JFK-Nurse-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)Phyllis Hall worked in the emergency room and clinics of Dallas’ Parkland Hospital for eight years. No day could compare…
Scenic Route: Inside the ER After the JFK Assassination
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/ScenicRoute-016.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 17:07 — 15.7MB)Phyllis Hall was a nurse at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, and she was on duty on November 22, 1963, the…
