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The Evolution of Dance

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/01/Evolution-of-Dance.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)It all began in 2001 with a two minute dance routine tacked onto the end of a speaking performance. It’s…

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Major General Arnold Fields

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/01/Major-General-Arnold-Fields-NFA.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Major General Arnold Fields spent 34 years in the Marines. He attributes much of his success to an organization known…

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Posted in American Countryside Podcast Wisconsin

A Museum with an Outhouse

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/01/Paper-Discovery-Center-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)This is an intriguing hands-on museum–especially when you consider it has an outhouse standing in the middle of it…..

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Posted in American Countryside Podcast Wisconsin

The Paper Discovery Center

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/01/Paper-Discovery-Center-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Green Bay may be known for the Packers, but the area is also known for its paper mills. You may…

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A Lettuce Tour Ticket

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/01/Yuma-Agriculture-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)What’s the hottest ticket in the nation?  There might be some music stars and sporting events near the top of…

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Agriculture in Yuma, Arizona

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/01/Yuma-Agriculture-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)This county enjoys the longest growing season in the country and it supplies most of the winter vegetables you’ll find…

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Drew Hastings

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/01/Drew-Hastings.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)There are many ways you can make a living on the farm, including finding the humor in it.  That’s what…

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The Statues of Easter Island

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/01/21Jan11-Easter-Island-21.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 940.8KB)For centuries these giant stone carvings have stood watch over an isolated outpost in the Pacific. They are the moi…

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A Thousand Miles Away

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/01/20Jan11-Easter-Island-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.8MB)Imagine a living in a place where your nearest neighbors resided over 1000 miles away. That’s real life for the…

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Growing Seed for North America

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/01/Tuniche-Seeds-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)While American fields lie dormant each winter, the seed that will be planted the coming spring is often already growing…

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Seed from Chile

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/01/Tuniche-Seeds-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Last planting season as I poured a bag of corn in our planter, I noticed the seed originated in Chile….

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Menno Attema

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/01/17Jan11-Minnow-Altama.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Imagine growing up on a farm and then in your early twenties traveling on your own a half a world…

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The Women’s Astronaut Program

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/01/Mercury-Women-Program-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.8MB)In the early 1980’s, the United States put its first woman into space, a full two decades after space travel…

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The Mercury Training Program for Women

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/01/Mercury-Women-Program-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.8MB)The first man in space? The first man to orbit the earth? The first man to walk on the moon?…

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William Quantrill

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/01/William-Quantril.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.8MB)Mention the name William Quantrill in Kansas or Missouri, and you’re likely to get stories of Quantrill’s Raiders sweeping into…

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A Farmer’s Market in the North

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/01/27Aug09-Palmer-Alaska-Farmers-Market.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 952.9KB)When you think of fertile farmland, you probably think about rich, deep soil in the heart of the Midwest. But…

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Salem, Illionois’ Library

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/01/10Jan11-Bryan-Bennett-Library.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)In Salem, Illinois you’ll find a library named for a man who never set foot in this town. He simply…

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The Official FFA Jacket

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/01/FFA-Jackets-2011.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)A doctor is expected to wear a white coat. A policeman is supposed to have a badge. A cowboy, of…

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Free Range Chickens

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/01/Free-Range-Chickens.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.8MB)When Herman’s son brought home an antiquated animal production book that he happen to find in his high school ag…

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William Jenning Bryan

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/01/William-Jenning-Bryan.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)ver a century has passed since this man ran for president three times.  While he never held the oval office,…

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