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Surviving the Holocaust of World War II
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/22Apr13-Holocaust-Survivor-Search-Kreisberger-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)His city bounced from one country’s control to another during World War II. No matter who was in control…this young…
A Company With a Different Beginning
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/19Apr13-3M-Two-Harbors-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Roll back the clock to the late 1800s and the people of Two Harbor, Minnesota would tell you this company…
A New Variety of Diet
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/18Apr13-3M-Two-Harbors-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)There are many people that tout a variety of diet plans. We may have a new idea to add to…
The Need for More Lighthouses
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/17Apr13-3M-Two-Harbors-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)It’s been over a century since one major storm hit the shores of western Lake Superior. However the twenty plus…
Aboard the William Irvin
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/16Apr13-William-Irving-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Life aboard a ship on the Great Lakes can be difficult. The work is hard and the weather can be…
The Importance of Shipped Goods on the Great Lakes
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/15Apr13-William-Irving-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Giant lake freighters are constantly passing through the port here in Duluth, Minnesota. However, one ship is moored here permanently…a…
Two Million Dollars Raised in Less Than Ten Years
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/12Apr13-Shickley-Nebraska-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)I had heard much about the Shickley, Nebraska, a town of just over 300 people in southern Nebraska. When I…
Shickley, Nebraska
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/11Apr13-Shickley-Nebraska-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)For the next two broadcasts you’ll hear the story of Shickley, NE–a town of just over 300 that has raised…
Scenic Route – Big Little Town
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/ScenicRoute-003.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 13:35 — 6.2MB)About 300 people live in Shickley, Nebraska, but that “big little town” has raised more than $2.5 million for community…
Two Women Artists
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/10Apr13-Prairie-Pioneers.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)There’s a good chance you may have never heard of these two women artists. Yet the work they created and…
Sailing a Viking Ship Across the Atlantic
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/09Apr13-Viking-Ship-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)On the surface it seemed to be a ludicrous project. A man with no experience building boats, was going to…
Cruising a Different Way
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/08Apr13-Viking-Ship-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Robert Asp had a dream to visit Norway someday. It was, after all, the land where his family traced their…
Scenic Route – A Modern-Day Viking Ship
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/ScenicRoute-002.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 5:48 — 3.9MB)How does a junior high guidance counselor come to be the builder and owner of a full-size Viking ship? And…
Witness to An Assassination
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/05Apr13-JFK-Eugene-Boone-5.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the tragic events that unfolded in Dallas when President Kennedy was assassinated, we may forget that a police officer…
A Personal Connection to a National Tradgedy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/04Apr13-JFK-Eugene-Boone-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)In November of 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald shot President Kennedy. Just two days later, Jack Ruby shot Oswald. Deputy Eugene…
Searching the 6th Floor of the Texas School Book Depository
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/03Apr13-JFK-Eugene-Boone-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the early afternoon of November 22nd, 1963, Deputy Eugene Boone was searching the 6th floor of the Texas School…
In Search of An Assassin
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/02Apr13-JFK-Eugene-Boone-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Deputy Eugene Boone was watching President Kennedy’s motorcade pass Main Street on November 22, 1963. But just moments after the…
Yards Away from the Texas School Book Depository
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/01Apr13-JFK-Eugene-Boone-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Deputy Eugene Boone could have never imagined the life changing events that would occur in his life and those around…
The Scenic Route – Eugene Boone
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/ScenicRoute-0012.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 28:28 — 20.1MB)In 1963, Eugene Boone was a 24-year-old deputy in Dallas, Texas–the youngest deputy ever hired by the sheriff there. On…
Turning A Tragedy Into A Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/28Mar13-6th-Floor-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)When we encounter a tragic event, we may want to erase all memories of it. That is what some wanted…
