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Protestors and Nuclear Testing
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/12/Nevada-Test-Site-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Our nation’s Bill of Rights guarantees its citizens freedom of speech and the right to assemble. When you are director…
Nuclear Weapons Testing
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/12/Nevada-Test-Site-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)From the 1950s to 1992, this area north of Las Vegas was where the U.S. conducted most of its nuclear…
Drilling Holes in the Ground
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/Nevada-Test-Site-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Drilling a hole in the ground may not sound too important. However at this site, much of today’s drilling technology…
Promoting Las Vegas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/Las-Vegas-History-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Most cities would not promote nuclear tests and fishing at lakes void of fish. But that’s what this place did,…
The City Known for Its Water?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/Las-Vegas-History-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)When this city got its start, it was known for its water. Its safe to say, few know it for…
Searchlight, Nevada
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/28Nov11-Searchlight-Nevada.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)At one time the town of Searchlight was considered as the possible county seat of Clark County. Today Searchlight has…
The Toughest Place on the Basketball Court
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/25Nov11-Womens-Official-Marianne-Karp.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)It may just be the toughest position to play on the basketball court. The worst part is, no matter how…
The First Thanksgiving
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/24Nov11-Berkley-Plantation-Thanksgiving.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)You may have thought Thanksgiving dates back to the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony in today’s state of Massachusetts. But there’s…
Working to End Hunger
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/21Nov11-Lafayette-Food-Bank.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Food. We may not think much about it, until we go without a meal. I hope you’ll join me in…
A Man’s Castle
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/20Nov11-Ha-Ha-Tonka-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)It’s said that a man’s home is his castle. For Robert Snyder, his home was a castle. But this building,…
A European Castle in the Midwest
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/19Nov11-Ha-Ha-Tonka-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Everyone who ventures here seems to have the same two questions: How did this place get its name and why…
Chicago Community Gardens
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/18Nov11-Chicago-Community-Gardens.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)They are small plots of land, but add them together and they account for a growing trend in the city…
The Buckhorn Saloon
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/Buckhorn-Saloon-2011.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)When people can’t pay cash for the items they want, they may try to barter. That’s what this saloon did,…
Veterinary Care in Afghanistan
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/16Nov11-Peter-Shinn-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)In this nation, a veterinarian may be called upon to help a sick animal. The vets Peter Shinn helps train…
Agriculture In Afghanistan
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/15Nov11-Peter-Shinn-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)There are certainly plenty of battles and firefights that continue to be waged in Afghanistan. However, for this team, most…
The Ethanol Debate
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/Ethanol-Debate.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.8MB)Is turning corn into ethanol causing food prices to rise and some people to starve around the globe? You may…
Veterans Day
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/Josh-Bliell.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.8MB)On Veterans Day, we remember those who have served our country and those who have fought to preserve freedom at…
King of the Cowboys
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/Tom-Mix.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.8MB)Tom Mix was known as the King of the Cowboys, starring in over 300 films from 1910 – 1935. He…
Smuggling Cash Under Your Skirt
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/David-Waldo.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.8MB)When Union and Confederate sympathizers threatened to take this banker’s money, he did what any logical person would do–he dressed…
The Petroglyphs at Washington State Park
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/Washington-State-Park-Petroglyph.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)When the Civilian Conservation Corp was working here in the 1930s they began to notice some unusual carving in the…
