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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…
Captain Travis Schuring
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/10/Travis-Schuring-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 949.6KB)Comedians, professional wrestlers, cheerleaders and politicians–Travis Schuring works with them all. Where do you find such a career? In the…
A Protocol Officer in the Air Force
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/10/Travis-Schuring-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Most people can’t tell you exactly what a protocol officer does, but today’s broadcast let’s you meet one who served…
The Dusenberg
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/10/Dusenberg-2009.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.0MB)In northeast Indiana there is a town that once produced the top cars of the day. In this very showroom,…
The Wonders of the Tuckaleeche Caverns
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/10/tuckaleechee-caverns-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.9MB)For centuries, people have recognized the natural beauty along the border of Tennessee and North Carolina. We call it the…
A Cavern Below the Smokey Mountains
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/10/tuckaleechee-caverns-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Kids may go exploring when they have nothing better to do. Sometimes, those adventures can lead to trouble. But for…
A Circus Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/10/Circus-Museum-2009.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.8MB)It all began with Albert, Otto, Alfred, Charles, and John. Without their last names, those first names might not mean…
Helping Rural Business Thrive in Developing Nations
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/10/Root-Capital-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Willie Foote saw farmers and farmer cooperatives in developing nations often struggling to survive. What resulted was a vision turned…
Root Capital
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/10/Root-Capital-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 947.3KB)American farmers know the financial difficulties that result from conditions that are often out of their control. Now imagine you…
Limited Married Life at Fort Hays
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/10/Fort-Hays-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)(Hays, Kansas) – For an enlisted man at Fort Hays, it wasn’t enough to win a young woman’s heart and…
The Men at Fort Hays
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/10/Fort-Hays-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)The Army certainly needs strong, upstanding young men and women to fill its ranks today. But in the late 19th…
Fort Hays, Kansas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/10/Fort-Hays-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)(Fort Hays, Kansas) As Americans moved from east to west, a network of forts sprang up across the high plains…
From Silver Mines to Fields of Sheep
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/10/Ketchum-Sheep1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.9MB)(Ketchum, Idaho) When the silver ran out, the sheep moved in; thousands of them, in fact! This place became one…
The Ketchum, Idaho Sheep Festival
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/10/Kethum-Sheep-Festival.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 1.9MB)Today the number of snow skiers to this valley outnumbers the sheep that graze the summer mountainsides. However, the sheep…
Swimming in a Sea of Burning Oil
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/10/Pearl-Harbor-Survivor-Stu-Hedley-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.9MB)Stu Hedley may have believed that once he left his ship, the West Virginia, in Pearl Harbor on the morning…
Surviving Pearl Harbor: A First Hand Account
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/10/Pearl-Harbor-Survivor-Stu-Hedley.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.8MB)We’ve heard of the events of December 7, 1941 at Pearl Harbor. Today, we meet one of the men who…
