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Posted in American Countryside North Carolina

Dewberry Tulip Farm

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/11Apr23-Dewbery-Tulip-Farm-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine a crop that might take you twelve days, with twelve people to get planted.  This family has come up…

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Posted in American Countryside North Carolina

From Tobacco to…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/10Apr23-Dewbery-Tulip-Farm-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This old tobacco farm has been in the Johnson family for about a century now.  The tobacco is long gone,…

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Posted in American Countryside Tennessee

Catching the 1800s Bus

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/03/07Apr23-Tennessee-River-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You could say it was the bus line of the 1800s.  A network of transportation that could take you just…

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Posted in American Countryside Tennessee

Making Ships Unsinkable

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/03/06Apr23-Tennessee-River-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Necessity is the mother of invention.  When the Civil War began, it was relatively easy to sink wooden ships, so…

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Posted in American Countryside Tennessee

What Else is at Shiloh?

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/03/05Apr23-Tennessee-River-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Each year, thousands of people will travel to southern Tennessee to see the famous national battleground at Shiloh.  What most…

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Posted in American Countryside Missouri

Cole Younger’s Second Life

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/03/04Apr23-Lees-Summit-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When you hear the name Cole Younger, you probably think of an outlaw holding up banks and living a life…

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Posted in American Countryside Missouri

The Burnt District

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/03/03Apr23-Lees-Summit-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was known as the Burnt District – a place where residents were forced to leave because there was no…

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Posted in American Countryside Missouri

Renaming a Town

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/03/31Mar23-Lees-Summit-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes the naming of a town is quite a story in itself.  That’s the case for what became one of…

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Posted in American Countryside Missouri

Floodproofing at Finley Farms

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/03/30Mar23-Finley-Farms-Ozark-Mill-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When you’re building is in the path of a regularly flooding river you might consider moving locations.  This place did…

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Posted in American Countryside Missouri

Transforming the Ozark Mill

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/03/29Mar23-Finley-Farms-Ozark-Mill-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There was a time when old mills dotted the landscape, grinding grain into feed and food.  One of the oldest…

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Posted in American Countryside Minnesota

The Mississippi Flows North

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/03/28Mar23-Lake-Itasca-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Mississippi River flows over 2500 miles, southward through the Midwestern U.S.  That is, unless you are here, where the…

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Posted in American Countryside Minnesota

The Beginning – Lake Itasca

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/03/27Mar23-Lake-Itasca-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Mississippi River empties into the Gulf of Mexico just south of New Orleans, Louisiana.  But where does the mighty…

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Posted in American Countryside Tennessee

Catch the Last Train to Clarksville

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/03/24Mar23-Last-Train-to-Clarksville-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the summer of 1966 the Monkees released “The Last Train to Clarksville.”  The song went to number one on…

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Posted in American Countryside Tennessee

The Depot at Clarksville, Tennessee

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/03/23Mar23-Last-Train-to-Clarksville-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the early and mid 1900s, passenger train service was common in most cities of any size.  Today the passengers…

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Posted in American Countryside Tennessee

The Legend of Daddy Bryson

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/03/22Mar23-Daddy-Bryson.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)His name was Daddy Bryson…and he became one of the best-known train engineers in the Smoky Mountains…not because of his…

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Posted in American Countryside Michigan

Remember the Raisin!

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/03/21Mar23-River-Raisin-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We all recall the battle cry, “Remember the Alamo” but over 200 years ago it was “Remember the Raisin!”  So…

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Posted in American Countryside Michigan

When Did the War of 1812 Begin?

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/03/20Mar23-River-Raisin-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s long been said that the only thing most Americans can tell you about the War of 1812 is what…

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Posted in American Countryside

A Tribute to Fatma

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/03/17Mar23-Turkish-Countryside-Fatma-Tribute.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A couple of years ago I was approached with a novel idea.  Could we use these broadcasts to help share…

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Posted in American Countryside Kansas

The Gamers Car

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/03/16Mar23-Midwest-Dream-Car-Collection-5.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes a car is known for it’s time period in history.  That’s the case for this particular Nissan.  If you’re…

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Posted in American Countryside Kansas

The Mighty Power Wagon

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/03/15Mar23-Midwest-Dream-Car-Collection-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you have work to do in the field, you probably get a tractor to pull an implement to get…

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