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Feeding People in a Different Way
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/09/Ohio-Food-Bank-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)If you were dropped inside this building and had no idea what it was, it might take you awhile to…
An Old Mattress Warehouse
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/09/Ohio-Food-Bank-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)What can you do with an old mattress warehouse? Use it to feed thousands of people in twenty counties. That’s…
The House with the Gothic Window
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/09/American-Gothic-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Holly Berg finds a steady stream of people that stop by her office to have their picture taken in overalls…
Painting Your Sister and Dentist
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/09/American-Gothic-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)If an artist painted a picture of his sister and his dentist, you’d probably doubt it would be anything special….
Pioneers of Flight: Stratosphere Balloons
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/09/Pioneers-of-Flight-Stratosphere-Balloons.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Before men could go into outer space, they first had to make it into the stratosphere. Many people don’t know…
Pioneers of Flight: Cal Rodgers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/09/Pioneers-of-Flight-Cal-Rodgers.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Today a transcontinental flight from New York to L.A. might take about five hours. But do you know how long…
Pioneers of Flight: Charles Lindbergh
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/09/Pioneers-of-Flight-The-Lindberghs.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)You may recall that it was Charles Lindbergh who flew the Spirit of 76 on the world?s first transatlantic flight….
Grave Robbers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/09/William-Henry-Harrison-Tomb.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)We may have heard tales of grave robbers, but perhaps you never knew that one such case took place in…
Iowa’s Tall Corn Stalk
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/09/Tallest-Corn-Stalk.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Over time, corn yields have steadily risen. Sure, there are dips in production due to drought and disease, but over…
Lindberger Cheese
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/09/Lindberger-Cheese-2011.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)It’s a story that radio can not do justice. Not because you need to see it, but because you need…
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/09/Canteen-Lunch-in-the-Alley.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)If your restaurant sat in an alley underneath a parking garage, you would not have a prime location to attract…
Mammoth Springs
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/Mammoth-Springs.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)When farmers put hay bales in this spring, the reappeared three days later seven miles away. The underground waterway just…
Fact vs Fiction of the Famous Ride
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/Paul-Revere-2011-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)LISTEN, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere. On the eighteenth of April, in…
A Famous Dentist
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/Paul-Revere-2011-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)He’s probably the most famous dentist that helped win the Revolutionary War. You might not know he cleaned teeth, but…
A Delicious Fruit
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/Red-Delicious-Apples-2011.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)It’s one of the world’s most popular varieties of fruit and we have it because one farmer couldn’t get a…
St. Genevieve, Missouri
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/St-Genevieve-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)We’ve all seen a log cabin. Such structures were the norm for many Americans early in the country’s history. But…
A Town on the Banks of the Mississippi
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/St-Genevieve-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)When these French Catholics learned that the British Protestants had taken over, they weren’t pleased. It may be the reason…
The Boneyard
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/Boneyard-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)It’s the fifth largest air force in the world, but few of the planes here will fly. Even if they…
Looking For Used Parts
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/Boneyard-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)If you were looking for some used parts to repair your car, you might go to a scrapyard to find…
The Nation’s First Banks
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/Old-State-Banks-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Today, you can find banks and ATM machines seemingly everywhere. But in the first few decades following the founding of…