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The Home of the Wright Brothers

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Dayton-Ohio-Wright-Brothers-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Although Kitty Hawk, North Carolina received most of the attention regarding the Wright Brothers first flight, it was this Ohio…

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Posted in American Countryside Cape Girardeau Missouri Podcast

Cape Girardeau: Discovery Playhouse

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Cape-Girardeau-Discovery-Playhouse.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:13 — 1.5MB)We’ve all been to museums, but have you ever been to one were you needed to put on a boot…

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Cape Girardeau: Riverfront Murals

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Cape-Girardeau-Murals.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 1.4MB)Michelangelo had a very large canvass when he began work on the Sistine chapel.  Make a trip to this river…

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Cape Girardeau: Lazy L Safari Park

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Cape-Girardeau-Lazy-L-Safari-Park.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)When you pull in the drive at the Lance farm, you might expect to see cattle or horses.  But a…

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Posted in American Countryside Cape Girardeau Civil War Missouri Podcast

Cape Girardeau: Civil War History

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Cape-Girardeau-Civil-War.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 1.4MB)Civil War engineers were simply running out of names, but that doesn’t mean the forts here were not important.  It’s…

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Posted in American Countryside Cape Girardeau Missouri Podcast

Cape Girardeau: Bollinger Mill

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Cape-Girardeau-Bollinger-Mill.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)All this week, we’ll be in Cape Girardeau, Missouri–the place where the river turns a thousand tales.  We begin with…

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The Battle of Boonville

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Battle-of-Boonville.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)As you may know, we do all of our stories from the actual location where they occur. While we did…

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Posted in American Countryside Indiana Podcast

The Red Skelton Festival

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Red-Skelton-Festival.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)If you go to Vincennes, Indiana this weekend, there’s a good chance you’ll meet a clown.  Actually, there’s a chance…

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Hopewell Mounds

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Hopewell-Mounds-2011.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)History on this continent is young when compared to places like Europe, but that mentality is to forget about the…

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Posted in American Countryside Missouri Podcast

Your Own Railroad

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Moberly-Missouri-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Ever dream of owing your own railroad?  Well, now you have the next best thing–you can rent a railroad for…

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The Magic City

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Moberly-Missouri-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Today we welcome our listeners on 1230 KWIX in Moberly, MO.  To visit the radio station there, you’ll need to…

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King City, Missouri’s BIG Pump

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/King-City-Missouri-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)In over 15 years of traveling the countryside, we have yet to feature an attraction from my hometown, the place…

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Settling King City, Missouri

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/King-City-Missouri-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)New York City as the Empire State building, Seattle the Space Needle and for many years, King City, Missouri had…

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Posted in American Countryside baseball Indiana Podcast

From the Hall of Fame to a Wiffle Ball Bat

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/John-Baker-Sports-Memorabilia-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Collecting and selling sports memorabilia can be big business.  John Baker ended up in it somewhat by accident and the…

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Collecting Sports Memorabilia

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/John-Baker-Sports-Memorabilia-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Many of us have enjoyed picking up a ball and glove and playing catch. Now image picking up a ball…

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Race Trials for Automobiles

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/Indy-500-Centennial.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)In the early days of auto building, hundreds of car makers battled for their own slice of the pie. With…

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Vincennes Rendevous

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/Vincennes-Rendevous1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)In 1779, soldiers of the American Revolution set foot here to capture lands for the new United States. Over two…

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West of the Mississippi…To Illinois

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/Kaskaskia-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Today we head west of the Mississippi River to the state of Illinois.  Yes, that’s west…..

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The Liberty Bell of the West

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/Kaskaskia-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)The Liberty Bell tolled for freedom in Philadelphia…or was it really in the State of Illinois?

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Carving a Capital from the Wilderness

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/Kaskaskia-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Roll back the clock 250 years and this city’s population might rival some of the largest towns on the east…

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