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A Train Depot in Palm Springs
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/05Mar13-Palm-Springs-History.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)When the rails came through this stretch of dry wilderness, the only people living here were the Cahuilla Indians. What…
Managing the Biggest Telescope in the World
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/04Mar13-Arecibo-Observatory-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Today we say hello to our listeners in the Archbold, Ohio area. One of their farm kids grew up to…
“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…
