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An Island with A View
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/07/Alcatraz-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:05 — 978.2KB)This island has some of the best views of San Francisco Bay and the city itself, yet most people didn’t…
An Island Called Alcatraz
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/07/Alcatraz-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 944.5KB)At one time, it was one of the nation’s most important forts, but that’s not how the it’s known today….
Palm Springs Oasis
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/07/Palm-Springs-Oasis.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 944.5KB)If you visit Palm Springs, California, you may be tempted to believe this resort town was carved out of an…
Casa Grande
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/07/Casa-Grande-Phoenix.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 942.9KB)Today skyscrapers in Phoenix tower above the city below. Roll back the clock six hundred years and it was this…
Honoring America’s Heroes
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/07/Arlington-Tomb-Guard-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 956.3KB)Every independence day we celebrate our freedom. This soldier is reminded of the cost of that freedom as he protects…
A Uniform of Perfection
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Arlington-Tomb-Guard-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 940.8KB)Some jobs require you to wear a uniform. Imagine a job where that uniform had to be worn with perfection…where…
Young, Arizona
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Young-Arizona.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 944.9KB)It’s just a small town of about 500 people. You’ve driven through bunches of them. But you probably have not…
Buckeye, Arizona
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Buckeye-Arizona.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 939.8KB)The city of Buckeye, Arizona was a small farming community for much of its life. That’s not so today. The…
Ocmulgee National Monument
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Ocmulgee-National-Monument.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 950.4KB)In this country, the US Capitol is the place the laws are made, but 1000 years ago, it was this…
Rebuiling the Pine Creek Grist Mill
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Pine-Creek-Mill-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 942.4KB)Retirees are often looking for a good cause to which to devote their time. Not many take up grinding flour…
The Pine Creek Mill
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Pine-Creek-Mill-11.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 946.5KB)People near Muscatine have always known of a place called Pine Creek Mill, but for most of the 20th century,…
A Radio Quack in Muscatine
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Muscatine-Cancer-Cure-Quack.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 945.5KB)Today we say hello to out listeners in Muscatine, IA on KWPC. Eighty years ago it was a station called…
The Car with the Hill Gear
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Muscatine-Car-Dealer.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 943.3KB)For many of Marvin Kreeger’s 84 years, he’s operated a car dealership in Muscatine, IA. It’s a successful business, but…
Lewis & Clark’s Montana Obstacle
Although sandbars and other river snags were a danger for Lewis and Clark on the way up the Missouri River, it was this obstacle in…
The Renter Who Became Famous
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Longfellow-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 940.2KB)George Washington is the father of the nation, but it’s this man’s name that is on the national historic site…
Raising An Army at Harvard
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Longfellow-21.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 940.4KB)Today Harvard is recognized as one of the top universities in the world. In 1775, it became the home of…
What Happened to the Loyalists?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Longfellow-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 939.4KB)When the American revolution began, there were many living in the colonies that remained loyal to the king. In many…
Fort Union
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Fort-Union-2010.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 942.2KB)It was the site of a vast trading network on the northern plains. It’s history spanned forty years and today,…
Working Through College
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Raymond-Hagan-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 943.3KB)It can be difficult to earn the money needed to get a college education. Raymond Hagan graduated high school in…
Doing What It Takes to Get a High School Diploma
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Raymond-Hagan-11.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 941.2KB)Today we take things like a high school education for granted. If you want a diploma, you usually have access…
