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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/04Jan23-Walter-Cronkite-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We live in a time when some folks love to throw around the term, “fake news.”  Perhaps it’s warranted in…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/03Jan23-Nome-Schoolhouse-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The schoolhouse in Nome, North Dakota saw its last students in 1970.  The old building would have been demolished a…

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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/29Dec22-Best-of-2022-Green-Giant.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some people have a green thumb, and it certainly seemed the farmers in southern Minnesota were experts at growing peas. …

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/28Dec22-Best-of-2022-Big-Bend.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In a moment I’ll take you to a small room, about the size of a large walk-in closet, that’s insured…

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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/21Dec22-Camp-Floyd-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)For three years, 3500 soldiers served alongside one another in Utah Territory.  It was the largest military outpost in the…

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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/19Dec22-Camp-Floyd-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1857 rumors of rebellion made it to the oval office.  President James Buchannan ordered troops to head to the…

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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/13Dec22-Kidder-Massacre.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today messages can be relayed to a military patrol within a split second.  But in the 1860s, it took a…

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