http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Manassas-2011.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)As July 21st, 1861 dawned, residents of northern Virginia could not fathom what was about to take place. It’s been…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Oklahoma-City-Land-Run-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)If a city grows quickly, we might say it sprang up overnight.  This state capital literally sprang into existence in…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Oklahoma-City-Land-Run-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)If you found a great deal on a house or a piece of land, we might say that we ran…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Oklahoma-City-Cattlemens-Steakhouse-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)You might go to a fancy clothing store to get measured for a suit.  But where do you go to…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Oklahoma-City-Cattlemens-Steakhouse-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Why are nurses on the night shift eating breakfast in the Oklahoma City Stockyards?  Here’s a place popular for breakfast…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Banjo-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)When I was in fifth grade I wanted to play the trumpet.  My parents scratched together $300 for a used…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Banjo-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)You’ve heard of dueling banjos–now multiply it times several hundred.  It’s a unique convention of sights and sounds that arrives…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/12Jul11-Kennecott-Copper-Mine.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)It’s the largest open pit mine in the world, with a hole so deep it swallowed entire towns.  The mine…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Jowler-Creek-Winery-21.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Most crops in the Midwest are planted in the spring and harvested in the fall.  The farmer’s investment is mostly…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Jowler-Creek-Winery-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)What led this beef and row crop farmer to begin growing grapes?  The answer is a good one, but it…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Philipse-Manor-31.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)When America won her independence, there were thousands of men and women who remained loyal to England during the war….

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Philipse-Manor-21.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)Fifty-six men signed the Declaration of Independence in July of 1776, but not everyone was pleased with the patriotic document….

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Philipse-Manor-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)It’s rare to find a young married lady commanding a ship, crisscrossing the Atlantic multiple times each year. Now imagine…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Liberty-Bell-2011.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)July 4th, 1776…Indpendence Day in the United States.  One of the symbols of our freedom is the Liberty Bell.  But…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Springfield-Illinois-New-Salem1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)Where was Abraham Lincoln living when he won his first political office?  You may have forgotten that it was this…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Springfield-Illinois-Lincolns-Tomb1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)Arlington National Cemetery is the most visited cemetery is the nation.  Which one ranks second?  Well, a stop here honors…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Springfield-Illinois-Cozy-Dog.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)Route 66 is full of pieces of Americana, and in Central Illinois you’ll find a drive-in over 65 years old,…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Springfield-Illinois-History-Comes-Alive.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:31 — 1.2MB)It’s been 150 years since Abraham Lincoln was President, but you can still visit with him and get his thoughts…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Springfield-Illinois-Lincoln-Library1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:31 — 1.1MB)This week we’re in Springfield, Illinois–of course any stop here likely includes the Abraham Lincoln presidential library.  It’s a place…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Jed-Ward-Muni-Unicycle.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Many of us remember the struggle of learning to ride a bike as a kid.  Eventually we mastered it, and…