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Posted in American Countryside Iowa

Escape from the Squirrel Cage Jail

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/07/02Aug22-Squirrel-Cage-Jail-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Prisoners have used many different methods to escape from their cells.  A man in this jail crawled through pipes of…

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Posted in American Countryside Iowa

Hamsters in a Prison Wheel

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/07/01Aug22-Squirrel-Cage-Jail-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you seem to be busy, but going nowhere in life, you might be said to be a “hamster in…

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Posted in American Countryside Texas

A Drink That Was Good for You

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/07/29Jul22-Dublin-Bottling-Works-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are a lot of studies that show high consumption of sugary drinks is bad for your waistline and your…

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Posted in American Countryside Texas

Shoot Me a Waco

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/07/28Jul22-Dublin-Bottling-Works-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If someone walked into a restaurant and said, “Shoot me a Waco,” no one would probably know what they meant. …

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Posted in American Countryside Oregon

The McGloflin House

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/07/27Jul22-McGloflin-House.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today it is just a historic site overlooking the Oregon’s Wilamette River…yet the man who lived here is regarded to…

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Posted in American Countryside Kansas

Turkey Red & the Liberty Bell

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/07/26Jul22-Mennonite-Heritage-Center-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Perhaps you’ve seen the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia.  But have you see the Liberty Bell in Goessel, Kansas?  The version…

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Posted in American Countryside Kansas

The Mennonites Meet the Tsar

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/07/25Jul22-Mennonite-Heritage-Center-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This community in central Kansas traces their lineage to the Netherlands, Poland and the Ukraine.  During their journey it was…

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Posted in American Countryside California

Liberation from a POW Camp

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/07/22Jul22-Sy-Brenner-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Life inside a POW camp in Germany was a struggle for survival.  Yet inside the barbed wire and the horrific…

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Posted in American Countryside California

Strange Messages in the Night

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/07/21Jul22-Sy-Brenner-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sy Brenner was an American soldier captured by the Germans and held in a POW camp.  He was fearful his…

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Posted in American Countryside California

Becoming the POW Doctor

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/07/20Jul22-Sy-Brenner-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sy Brenner served as a medic during World War II.  However, he was about to be asked to serve in…

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Posted in American Countryside California

Sy Brenner KIA?

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/07/19Jul22-Sy-Brenner-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)November 29th, 1944 was the night Sy Brenner was killed in action in southern France.  At least that’s what many…

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Posted in American Countryside Missouri

Finding the Signature in the Cave

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/07/18Jul22-Mark-Twain-Cave-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine looking through 250,000 signatures, in dark narrow passages with a flashlight in an effort to find where one very…

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Posted in American Countryside Missouri

Hannibal’s Famous Cave

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/07/15Jul22-Mark-Twain-Cave-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are plenty of caves to visit in this country, but this one just happened to be explored many times…

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Posted in American Countryside Illinois

Catsup?

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/07/14Jul22-Collinsville-Ketchup-Tower-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we call it “ketchup.”  But there was once a segment of this nation that knew it as “catsup.”  Today…

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Posted in American Countryside Illinois

The Large Bottle of Ketchup

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/07/13Jul22-Collinsville-Ketchup-Tower-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you are one of those folks who will put ketchup on just about anything, head to Collinsville, IL.  If…

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Posted in American Countryside Missouri

Son Tay Raid & Its Impact Today

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/07/12Jul22-Son-Tay-Raid-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some would say the raid on the Son Tay prison camp in North Vietnam in 1970 was a failure.  Yet,…

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Posted in American Countryside Missouri

The Raid on Son Tay

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/07/11Jul22-Son-Tay-Raid-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the fall of 1970, the U.S. military conducted a mission into north Vietnam to rescue about 60 POWs.  Terry…

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Posted in American Countryside Missouri

Chances of Survival are 50-50

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/08Jul22-Son-Tay-Raid-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What would go through your mind if you were selected for a mission and told your chances for survival were…

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Posted in American Countryside Missouri

The Farm Kid Becomes a Green Beret

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/07Jul22-Son-Tay-Raid-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Terry grew up during the Vietnam War.  As a young man he decided to enter the armed forces.  When presented…

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Posted in American Countryside South Dakota

KORN Radio Celebrates 75 Years

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/06Jul22-KORN-Radio-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You know your station has hit the big time when it’s call letters are used for a fictional radio station…

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