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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/12Apr23-Dakota-Emporium-Trading-Post-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Take a walk around the small downtown area of Ft. Pierre, South Dakota and you’ll find a place called the…

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…

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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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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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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…

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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