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Burning the Fields
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Cedar-Creek-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Farmer’s crops can fall prey to the elements of mother nature. Heat, hail, wind and much more can destroy a…
Belle Grove Plantation
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Belle-Grove-Plantation.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Our history books tell us the south had many slave holding plantations in the years leading up to the Civil…
Election Day 2010
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Voting-2010.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Today we may not think much about the way we vote, unless a close contest causes us to have to…
What’s behind the “Spook” Light?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Spook-Light-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)People like to have answers, and perhaps that’s what makes this phenomena so interesting. There seems to be no explaining…
The “Spook” Light
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Spook-Light-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)I don’t care for stories about evil and gruesomeness at Halloween, yet a spooky tale may be in order. For…
Oceanfront Property in Arizona
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Yuma-Arizona-History-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)George Strait once sang that he had some oceanfront property in Arizona and if you’d buy that he’d throw the…
A Ferry Crossing in the Desert
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Yuma-Arizona-History-21.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Before bridges crossed rivers, communities often relied upon ferries to carry people and supplies. In some cases, those ferry operators…
An Oasis in the Desert
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Yuma-Arizona-History-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Yuma, Arizona is in the Sonora dessert. The annual average rainfall is about three inches per year. So it is…
Pawnee Bill
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Pawnee-Bill-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 954.3KB)It may have seemed this famous western showman had married the wrong woman. After all, his bride was a city…
The Last National Convention
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/22Oct10-Larry-Case-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)“Being older than the rest of you I’m asked to advise you from time to time as the need arises…..”…
Dr. Larry Case’s Most Memorable Day
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/21Oct10-Larry-Case-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Dr. Larry Case became National FFA Advisor in 1984, but perhaps his most memorable day as an advisor at any…
“Here By the Owl…”
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/20Oct10-Larry-Case-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)The National FFA Convention is in Indianapolis this week, and this will be the last such event for Dr. Larry…
June McCarroll’s Lasting Legacy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/18Oct10-June-McCarroll.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Today you could get a ticket if you don’t drive on your side of the road. Worse yet, you could…
The Kansas Cosmosphere
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/15Oct10-Kansas-Cosmosphere-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.9MB)Today we’re back in Hutchinson, KS and say hello to our listeners on KWBW. I can attest to what folks…
A Cosmosphere in the Plains
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Kansas-Cosmosphere-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.9MB)Where can you find the largest collection of Soviet space artifacts on display in the world? The answer is in…
A Museum for a Date
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Date-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)A new museum is opening that is perfect for you and a date. It’s a bad pun but a fun…
Show-Me Energy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Show-Me-Energy.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:58 — 925.7KB)You may have heard of cellulosic ethanol production, but cellulosic plants can be used to provide a variety of products…..
Arkansas’ Spanish Treasure Cave
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Spanish-Treasure-Cave-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)In the years following Columbus’ voyage to the new world, other Europeans followed, some with ideas of conquering native American…
Chasing a Treasure
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Spanish-Treasure-Cave-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Imagine finding a treasure map with a route marking the spot where you could find unimaginable riches. Sounds like a…
Jailhouse Families
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Jailhouse-Families.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)When the Sheriff was away, the prisoners might play; that is, until the Sheriff’s wife got involved…..
