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Did You See That Fencepost?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/09Jun22-Joe-Jeffrey-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Every cattleman needs good fences to keep the herd from roaming free. Joe Jeffrey has seen many miles of those…
Getting the Water Where You Need It
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/08Jun22-Joe-Jeffrey-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You can plant a crop in the ground, but without water it will do very little. The farmers of this…
Mile-Long Bridges Over Dry River Beds
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/07Jun22-Joe-Jeffrey-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the first residents of this area began building bridges to cross the nearby river, they found they often needed…
National D-Day Memorial
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/06Jun22-D-Day-Memorial-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s been several decades since allied troops landed at Normandy on D-day. Over four thousand men gave their lives that…
The Boys from Bedford
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/03Jun22-D-Day-Memorial-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many of those who served in World War II actually joined the armed forces before the tradgedy at Pearl Harbor. …
Remembering Those Who Served
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/02Jun22-Bob-Garst-D-Day-Memorial.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s estimated that over three million military men and women served in Vietnam and neighboring nations during the Vietnam War. …
Chain of Rocks Bridge
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/01Jun22-Chain-of-Rocks-Bridge.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The development of not only cars, but roads themselves has improved safety and lessened highway fatalities. But in the 1920s…
An Important Place for Fans of Baseball
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/31May22-Cooperstown-Doubleday-Field.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This town has under 2000 residents, yet it hosts thousands of visitors each year and is arguably the most important…
Route 66 to See Fonzy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/30May22-Santa-Monica-Pier-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Dan Rice has traveled the length of Route 66 over two dozen times. It might surprise people that his original…
A Famous Sign, Reborn
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/27May22-Santa-Monica-Pier-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today this sign on Santa Monica Pier attracts a steady stream of travelers who pose by it. Interestingly, it’s a…
Where is the End of Route 66?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/26May22-Santa-Monica-Pier-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1926 Route 66 ended at the corner of 7th and Broadway in downtown Los Angles, California. Today, most people…
The Farm Themed Nature Center
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/25May22-Le-Seur-Minnesota-Nature-Center.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We may think of a nature center as a place with an interpretive building and a few wooded acres where…
The Mean Green Giant
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/24May22-Mayo-the-Green-Giant-2.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. …
Mayo & The Green Giant
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/23May22-Mayo-the-Green-Giant-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In Le Suer, Minnesota you’ll find what appears to be a modest old home sitting on a lot in front…
A Tragedy That Led to An Institution
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/20May22-WW-Mayo-House-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In August of 1883 a tornado hit southeastern Minnesota. It was a devastating event that caused a lot of damage…
A Famous Doctor Whose First Patient Was a Horse
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/19May22-WW-Mayo-House-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)One of this medical doctors first patients when he came to town was a horse. He was glad to treat…
A Frontier Doctor
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/18May22-WW-Mayo-House-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He was a frontier doctor that found himself in the middle of the Dakota War. His work in that war…
A Wisconsin Dairy with History Before the Civil War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/16May22-Brooks-Dairy-Farm-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many farms have a long legacy of working the land. Just outside Waupaca, Wisconsin you can find a dairy that…
Coming Home to the Place That Held You Captive
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/13May22-Camp-Algona-Iowa-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s hard to imagine being held as a prisoner of war and then, after the war, immigrating to the country…
Camp Algona Iowa
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/12May22-Camp-Algona-Iowa-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Over the years you’ve heard us feature some towns in the heartland of America that served as POW camps during…
