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Best of 2010: Jim Thorpe
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Best-of-2010-Jim-Thorpe.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.4KB)In 1912 he was proclaimed the world’s greatest athlete and some of his Olympic records from that year still stood…
Best of 2010: The Alamo
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Best-of-2010-Alamo.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.4KB)It’s one of the most famous buildings at the center of one of the most famous battles in history. A…
Best of 2010: Tom Crosby
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Best-of-2010-Tom-Crosby.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)American troops had finally made it to Manila and were attempting to free POWs like Tom Crosby. Just when things…
Best of 2010: Mount Washington
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/27Dec10-Best-of-2010-Mt-Washington.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)If you are ever tempted to think the winter weather where you live is bad, just wait until you hear…
Pastor Boyd
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/24Dec10-Pastor-Boyd-Christmas.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Here’s the story about a man who delivers the story of Christmas. A man who inspires people to share the…
A Store for the Holidays
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/23Dec10-Holiday-Christmas-Store.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)If Santa Claus needed a place to buy all of his decorations, this would be it. This big business in…
A Future for Sleighs
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Denver-Sleigh-Works-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Santa needs a sleigh to make deliveries around the world. This man makes sure he will never run out of…
The Denver, Missouri Sleigh Works
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Denver-Sleigh-Works-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Winter weather can make travel treacherous, but once upon a time you simply hooked up your horse or team to…
An Outside Courtroom Trial
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Scopes-Trial-2-2010.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)In the days before air conditioning and microphones, this famous trial was held outside the courtroom, where thousands could get…
“Bidding” to Host the Scopes Trial
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Scopes-Trial-1-2010.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Although the case was heard in 1925, it is still one of the best known today. A trial that one…
The Future of Farm Policy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Farm-Foundation-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Turn on any news program and you can find plenty of debate on how Congress should tackle any number of…
The Farm Foundation
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Farm-Foundation-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.8KB)The world will add approximately three billion people in the next forty years. Farmers will be asked to feed those…
Parker Brothers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Parker-Brothers-2010.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Park Place and Boardwalk are real places in Atlantic City, NJ. They became famous of course, through the game of…
A Fountain Mightier than Skyscrapers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Grant-Park-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Many city parks have fountains. But imagine a fountain that could shoot water higher than buildings and drew visitors from…
To the Courts For a Park
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Grant-Park-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)We know names like Montgomery Ward and Marshall Field because of the stores that carried their name. But most people…
Chicago’s Lake Park
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Grant-Park-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)In downtown Chicago there is a wide stretch of land between Michigan Avenue and the Lake Michigan that was never…
Cyrus McCormick
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Cyrus-McCormick.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 952.9KB)For centuries, crops were cut and threshed by hand. That all changed with a young farmer in Virginia. This is…
Pearl Harbor Remembered
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Pearl-Harbor-Daniel-Martinez-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.8MB)Although the events of December 7th, 1941 are nearly seven decades old, Americans do remember. They honor those who gave…
Remembering Pearl Harbor
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Pearl-Harbor-Daniel-Martinez.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.8MB)Hawaii has long been a place where people come to enjoy sun, sand and surf. But it is also a…
Days Americans Never Forget
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Pearl-Harbor-Herb-Weathermax.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Before there was a 9/11, there was December 7th. Both are days Americans will never forget. However, there are few…