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“Too Tough for Women and Churches”
Holbrook, Arizona Holbrook, Arizona, is just what you’d expect from a town in the Old West. It had a reputation as a place that was…
Just What Is a Close Call With an Asteroid?
On occasion you may here a story about an asteroid making a close pass to our planet. So who tells you whether it will be a “close call” or a direct hit? And how far in advance could they tell you the answer? Today we visit with a man who can provide many of those answers…..
New Ways to Explore the Universe
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/28Feb13-Arecibo-Observatory-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)It’s a marvel of science and engineering – a construction project so large that it took three years to complete….
Near Liberation from a POW Camp
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/27Feb13-POW-Tom-Crosby.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 1.4MB)American troops had finally made it to Manila and were attempting to free POWs like Tom Crosby. Just when things…
Farming Next to the Ocean
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/26Feb13-AgriGold-Puerto-Rico-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)The scenery that surrounds this place looks anything but Midwestern. Yet, it’s the work that is done here that impacts…
American Countryside Video: Kansas Territorial Capital
KS Territorial Capital We’ll be adding more video over the coming months, as we bring you a fuller picture of The American Countryside. Here’s the…
Planting Three or Four Crops a Year
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/25Feb13-AgriGold-Puerto-Rico-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Most farmers plant their seeds in the spring and harvest in the fall. But on this farm, Spring is just…
President’s Week 2013: Calvin Coolidge
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/22Feb13-Coolidge-Inauguration.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)It all happened in the middle of the night. The citizens of the United States went to bed on August…
President’s Week 2013: Teddy Roosevelt
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/21Feb13-Roosevelt-Inauguration.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)He is one of four faces on Mt. Rushmore…but what you may not know is exactly how he became president….
President’s Week 2013: Grover Cleveland
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/20Feb13-Grover-Cleveland.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)James Buchanan was the only U.S. president to never marry, but this president was also a bachelor when he arrived…
President’s Week 2013: Ulysses Grant
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/19Feb13-Ulysses-Grant-Birthplace.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Presidential birthplaces are visited by many tourists each year. But no home may have quite the story as this small…
President’s Week 2013: Thomas Jefferson
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/18Feb13-Thomas-Jefferson-Agriculture.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)His face is one of four carved into Mt. Rushmore…but few know the story of how this well known president…
Mastodon State Historic Site
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/15Feb13-Mastadon-State-Historic-Site.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Imagine you found the bones of an animal and had little idea exactly what you had found. Now imagine making…
Jay Eudy’s Pedal Tractors
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/14Feb13-Jay-Eudy-Pedal-Tractors-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Lots of kids love riding a pedal tractor and these days there are plenty of colors, sizes and models to…
Looking For Someone to Paint Tractors
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/13Feb13-Jay-Eudy-Pedal-Tractors-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)It all began with some local implement dealers who needed a young man who could paint tractors. When they asked…
The Role of Lincoln’s Parents
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/12Feb13-Abraham-Lincoln-Log-Cabin-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)We may remember that President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday is February 12th. But we often forget the important role of his…
Abraham Lincoln’s Step Mother
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/11Feb13-Abraham-Lincoln-Log-Cabin-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Abraham Lincoln lost his mother to a sudden illness when he was just nine years old. Within a year his…
The History of Cereal
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/08Feb13-Kelloggs-Cereal.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Grocery stores devote plenty of shelf space to cereals, but the historic route those breakfast foods took to get there…
The First Nationally Televised State Funeral
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/07Feb13-Sam-Rayburn-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)In November of 1961, this small town in north Texas was overwhelmed with people coming to pay their respects to…
The Power of Speaker of the House
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/12/06Feb13-Sam-Rayburn-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Many governors, senators and representatives may aspire to one day become president of the United States. However, this man believed…
