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The Roots of the 4-H Clover
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/11/4-H-Clover-2009.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)The 4-H Program is now over a century old and many people recognize the familiar green clover that symbolizes those…
A Chocolate Display
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/11/Union-Station-Chocolate.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 1.9MB)For 90% of this agricultural product’s history, it was used as a drink. People certainly still drink it today, but…
The Rendezvous Theatre
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/11/Rendevous-Theatre.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 947.6KB)When hunters and trappers would gather once each season, it was often called a rendezvous. In Alaska and the Yukon…
Food Fight!
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/11/Food-Fight.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)If you began a food fight in school you could be headed to detention. If a farmer or rancher starts…
Catoctin Mountain Park (Part 2)
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Catoctin Mountain Park (Part 1)
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Alaska’s Salmon
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/11/Alaska-Riverboat-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)To many of us, salmon are just another type of fish we might eat. But to the people of Alaska,…
Alaskan Riverboats
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/11/Alaska-Riverboat-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)When the city of Fairbanks swelled with the Klondike gold rush in the late 1800s, a fleet of riverboats began…
Alaska’s Riverboat Discovery
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/11/Alaska-Riverboat-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)When you think of a riverboat captain, you probably think of life on the Mississippi, Ohio or Missouri. Instead, we’ll…
An Alaskan Highway
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/11/Jean-Richardson-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:05 — 1.9MB)It’s a chore for most states to build and repair roads and bridges. Mary Carey fought with her state for…
North to Alaska
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/11/Jean-Richardson-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.9MB)Jean Richardson’s mother had always dreamed of moving to Alaska and teaching school there. When she did move north, the…
Glaciers and Icebergs
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/11/Alaska-Glaciers-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.8MB)If there is such a thing as a famous iceberg, it would probably be the chuck of ice that sunk…
Alaska’s Magnificent Glaciers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/11/Alaska-Glaciers-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Alaska has plenty to offer visitors when it comes to natural beauty. One of the most popular attractions for tourists…
Music At the Gold Mine
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/11/El-Dorado-Gold-Mine-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Alaska has had its share of gold rushes and although the stampede of prospectors may be long gone, there is…
A Wisconsin Dairy Farmer and an Alaska Gold Mine
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/11/El-Dorado-Gold-Mine-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.9MB)When Dexter Clark decided that the life of a Wisconsin dairy farmer was not for him, he took up a…
The Wildlife of Denali National Park
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/11/Denali-National-Park-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Denali National Park is home to North America’s tallest peak and many types of wildlife. Today we venture there for…
A Mountain Called Denali
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/11/Denali-National-Park-11.mp3Podcast: Download ()Denali National Park is home to a peak for which the park is named…Denali…which means The Great One. Many people know it as…
Dawson Dolly
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/11/Dawson-Dolly.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 950.0KB)Skagway, Alaska has a wealth of history from its gold mining days. One of the personalities who shares that story…
A Midwestern POW Camp
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/10/POW-Camp-Clarinda.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 955.9KB)They were prisoners of war, yet they were paid for their work; many of them forged friendships with the locals…
A Special Job and A Special Thanksgiving
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/10/Travis-Schuring-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Regardless of your political affiliation, the event that took place on Thanksgiving 2003 was remarkable. Today, we visit with a…
