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A New Class of Ships
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/03/Victory-Ships-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)During the first half of World War II, the United States used vessels called Liberty Ships to haul cargo and…
Building Victory Ships
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/03/Victory-Ships-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Imagine a ship over a football field and a half long and sixty-two feet wide. Now imagine you need to…
Florida’s Holocaust Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/03/Florida-Holocaust-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)If you happen to visit the Tampa-St. Petersburg area, you should take time to visit a well done site called…
The Kingsley Plantation
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/03/Kingsley-Plantation.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 942.0KB)The story of Kingsley Plantation is fascinating, and when you factor in the life’s journey of the landowner’s wife, it…
A Florida Strawberry Festival
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/03/Florida-Strawberries-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)In the 1930’s, citizens of Plant City, Florida began a strawberry festival. The annual event continues today. Although it’s mostly…
A High Value Crop Grown Right in the Middle of Town
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/03/Florida-Strawberries-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Imagine attempting to grow a high value crop in the middle of one of America’s largest cities. That’s exactly what…
The Secret to Growing Great Strawberries
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/03/08Mar11-Florida-Strawberries.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.4MB)What does it take to grow great strawberries? A good railroad of course. That’s one of the reasons many of…
Farming a Different Way
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/03/Gary-Zimmer-Biological-Farming-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)In agriculture there is sometimes infighting between groups that support organic or conventional production methods. The two do not have…
Biological Farming
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/03/Gary-Zimmer-Biological-Farming.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Farmers are always looking for ways to do more with less. Gary Zimmer may just be the man who can…
Senator, Do You Have No Decency?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/03/02Mar11-Joseph-McCarthy-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Joseph Welch said what many Americans were thinking. During a US Senate hearing on June 9th, 1954 he said, “Senator,…
An Up and Coming Senator
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/03/01Mar11-Joseph-McCarthy-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)This Wisconsin senator was a rising star in the state; a man who made history by becoming one of the…
Arivaca Boys Ranch
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/02/Arivaca-Boys-Ranch-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 948.2KB)The Bible’s parable of the prodigal son shares the story of a wayward son that comes home to a father…
Attending a Civil War Reunion
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/02/02Oct09-Civil-War-Reunion-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)75 years after the Battle of Gettysburg, the veterans of the Civil War were still coming here for reunions……
Charles Pinckney
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/02/24Feb11-Charles-Pinckney.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)You may not have heard his name, but the impact this young man left on our government is still felt…
Farming Big with Small Equipment
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/02/Phil-Corzine-Brazil-Agriculture-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)It’s amazing some of the technology that can be found on the farm these days. However, if you go to…
Farming Soybeans in South America
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/02/Phil-Corzine-Brazil-Agriculture-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Phil Corzine knows about growing soybeans. However, a few years ago he took that knowledge to South America to grow…
President Andrew Johnson
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/02/21Feb11-Andrew-Johnson.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 944.5KB)Every February, we celebrate the birthdays of Lincoln and Washington. But what about some of the lesser-known individuals who occupied…
A Different Place to Farm
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/02/Phil-Corzine-Brazil-Agriculture-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 942.2KB)Midwestern farms experience temperatures that can often range from below zero to over 100 during the course of the year….
Stumps in the Road
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/02/17Feb11-National-Road-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:05 — 977.0KB)Folks in Ramsey, Illinois know that just a few miles to the south, one of the nation’s first roads once…
The National Road
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/02/National-Road-2011.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Today, interstate highways allow us to travel from state to state crossing rivers, plains and mountains in a fraction of…
