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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…
Cheese in the Windy City
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Prairie-Pure-Cheese-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 941.2KB)As a veterinarian, Brian Gerloff knows a lot about helping animals. However, his business model is also helping farmers and…
Prairie Pure Cheese
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Prairie-Pure-Cheese-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 940.4KB)When this veterinarian began his practice just outside of Chicago, he may never have imagined how the growing city would…
St. Gaudens National Historic Site
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/St-Gaudens.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 942.4KB)It’s New Hampshire’s only national park service site and even if you heard its name, it’s doubtful you could tell…
Charles Carroll
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Charles-Carroll-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 945.9KB)Of those who signed the Declaration of Independence, this man was the only one to sign more than just his…
Freedman’s Village and Arlington National Cemetery
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Section-27-Arlington-Cemetery-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 940.2KB)It was a village inside Arlington National Cemetery, a place where people found refuge during the Civil War. Here’s the…
Arlington National Cemetery’s Section 27
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Section-27-Arlington-Cemetery-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.8KB)Although most visitors to Arlington National Cemetery simply see the Tomb of the Unknowns and perhaps the JFK grave site,…
A Historian for Arlington National Cemetery
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/05/Arlington-Cemetery-Historian.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.8MB)Tom thought he was coming here simply to fill a summer job. Over 30 years later, he’s still here, but…
The Army Arlington Ladies
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/05/Army-Arlington-Ladies.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 941.2KB)On Memorial Day we remember our loved ones, but these ladies recognize our fallen soldiers this weekend and every day…
A Colony Lost
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/05/Roanoke-Ft-Raleigh-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 941.4KB)It’s known as the lost colony of Roanoke–a settlement of English that vanished between 1587 and 1590 in what is…
The Colony of Roanoke
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/05/Roanoke-Ft-Raleigh-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 941.4KB)In 1587 three ships set sail from England bound for Chesapeake Bay. The voyage wouldn’t make that destination though, and…
Charles Poston’s Butte
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/05/Charles-Poston-Butte-Arizona.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 942.9KB)On the north edge of Florence, AZ you’ll find a small outcropping once known as Primrose Hill. Today there is…
For Sale: A Field of Dreams
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/05/Field-of-Dreams-For-Sale.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 946.5KB)This Iowa farm family is asking $5.4 million dollars for their corn field. For that price you get the house,…
Skydiving to Food
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/05/Mike-McKenzie-Lucky-Nickel-Ranch-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 943.3KB)If you have trouble finding the Lucky Nickel Ranch, just look up. Wherever you see the skydivers floating to the…
Making a Living on 40 Acres
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/05/Mike-McKenzie-Lucky-Nickel-Ranch-21.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 940.8KB)Some people might say you can’t make a living on a forty acre farm. Michael McKenzie is out to prove…
The Lucky Nickel Ranch
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/05/Mike-McKenzie-Lucky-Nickel-Ranch-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 952.0KB)California produce growers rely heavily on hand labor to tend their crops. For Michael McKenzie, that labor has come from…
A Florence, Arizona Prison
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/05/Florence-Prison.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 954.1KB)Arizona did not become a state until 1912, so for several decades of it’s existence, it had a territorial prison…
Yuma Prison
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/05/Yuma-Prison.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 952.2KB)Most high schools hope to turn out classes of top notch students. This school consistently produces a new crop of…
