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The End of Route 66
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/29May12-Santa-Monica-Pier-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)In 1926 Route 66 ended at the corner of 7th and Broadway in downtown Los Angles, California. Today, most people…
The Wounded Warrior Program
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/28May12-Wounded-Warrior-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)On Memorial Day we remember our friends and family who have passed. It is a day of tribute and remembrance…
A Program for Injured Soldiers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/25May12-Wounded-Warrior-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Soldiers may encounter all kinds of obstacles on the battlefield. What Mary did not realize was the great challenges they…
William Paca
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/24May12-William-Paca.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)As the colonies approached the year 1776, old social ties were sometimes stretched thin. But in the capitol of Maryland,…
A Celebrity Inmate
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/23May12-Boonville-County-Jail-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Occasionally there are nationally known celebrities that break the law and must serve some jail time. Those cases, of course,…
The Cooper County Jail
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/22May12-Boonville-County-Jail-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)The historic jail in Boonville, Missouri was built to house those convicted of crimes in the county. However, it also…
Returning to the Country That Held You Prisoner of War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/21May12-Camp-Algona-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)It’s hard to imagine being held as a prisoner of war and then, after the war, immigrating to the country…
Camp Algona
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/18May12-Camp-Algona-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Over the years, you’ve heard us feature some towns in the heartland of America that served as POW camps during…
The Globetrotter Lodge
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/17May12-Globetrotter-Lodge.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Many people would love to live in the Austrian Alps. This couple decided the wide open spaces of eastern Arizona…
A Pancake Jubilee
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/16May-12-KMA-History-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Imagine hosting a breakfast so large that you needed to buy pancake flour by the boxcar. That’s exactly what happened…
Two Rival Nurseries and Radio Stations
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/15May12-KMA-History-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Today we say hello to our friends in Southwest Iowa. Folks there have been tuning into their radios for decades…
The Kansas Cosmosphere
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/08/Kansas-Cosmosphere-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Today we’re back in Hutchinson, KS and say hello to our listeners on KWBW. I can attest to what folks…
The Inspiration for Radiator Springs
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/11May12-Holbrook-Arizona-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Sometimes movies do more than just bring in dollars at the box office. They occasionally have an impact on the…
WCAZ Radio
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/10May12-WCAZ-Radio.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.8MB)Today’s program comes from the studios of WCAZ Radio in Carthage, Illinois. It’s a place with a long tradition in…
An Unusual Invitation
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/09May12-Holbrook-Arizona-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)There are many towns in the western U.S. that had rough and tumble beginnings. They are places where it was…
The Jewel of the Prairie
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/08May12-Junction-City-Opera-House.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)In the 1880s Junction City, Kansas built “The Jewel of the Prairie,” a grand opera house to serve the growing…
A Horse with A Gas Mask
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/04May12-Fort-Riley-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)There are a lot of important military artifacts in this museum and Dr. Robert Smith can tell you why each is…
The Hindenburg
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/04May12-Hindenburg-2012.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)It was transatlantic service at its finest. An airship almost three football fields long cruising at the then blazing speed…
Fort Riley
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/03May12-Fort-Riley-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Today we say hello to our listeners on KJCK in Junction City, KS. Listeners there know the long-standing affiliation this…
The Spruce Goose Takes Flight
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/30Apr12-Spruce-Goose-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)This plane made but one flight – a trip that lasted about one mile just a few yards off of…
