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A Hostage in Iran
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/04/29Apr20-Iran-Hostage-Tom-Schafer-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Tom was working at the U.S. embassay in Theran in the late 1970s, and soon he and fifty-one other Americans…
Looking For a Warm Place to Work
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/04/28Apr20-Iran-Hostage-Tom-Schafer-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)All Tom Schafer was looking for was a warmer place to work. Unfortunately for him, he chose Iran in 1978…
Peanuts and Baseball
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/04/27Apr20-Royal-Peanut-Vendor-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Dan Nash has been selling peanuts at Kansas City Royals games for about three decades. While the current season is…
Drives Into the Upper Deck
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/04/24Apr20-Royal-Peanut-Vendor-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Dan Nash has been known to launch drives into the upper decks of Kansas City’s Kauffman Stadium. While those shots…
Throwing at the Ballpark
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/04/23Apr20-Royal-Peanut-Vendor-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Dan Nash has thrown plenty of pitches at the ballpark. He earns a nice living but he’s not throwing baseballs. …
100 Year-old Letters with a Tie to Today
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/04/22Apr20-Spanish-Flu-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Jonathan Casey reads a lot of letters. Most of the letters are over a century old, but they are very…
The Struggle Against the Spanish Flu
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/04/21Apr20-Spanish-Flu-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Over a century ago the world was struggling against what we call the Spanish flu. However, the disease probably didn’t…
A Pandemic from Over 100 Years Ago
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/04/20Apr20-Spanish-Flu-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We are still traveling the countryside…although today’s interview was done by phone, a necessity of our current times. We look…
Sending Spies to Uncover Truths
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/04/17Apr20-Ulysses-Grant-Farm-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This future president, had a sitting president send spies to uncover the truth about the man’s life. It’s a unique…
A Presidential Farm
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/04/16Apr20-Ulysses-Grant-Farm-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When a U.S. president finishes their term in office, retirement can be difficult. What do you do after running a…
The Story of Thomas Jackson
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/04/15Apr20-Stonewall-Jackson.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If I told you that today’s feature is about Thomas Jackson, you probably wouldn’t have a very good idea of…
A Record That People Didn’t Want Broken
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/04/14Apr20-Roger-Maris-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Records are made to be broken – or are they? When it came to this record, many people wanted the…
A Museum in a Shopping Mall
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/04/13Apr20-Roger-Maris-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You might be surprised to find this museum in a shopping mall, but there’s a very good reason it’s there…and…
Iranian Hostage Tom Schaefer
https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/1d004633-2e9e-47f1-9b89-a754011a2aa9/87acce9d-6e1d-427e-9030-ab9200e3ded5/942958df-c428-4566-b6d7-ab9b014704e4/audio.mp3Podcast: Download ()We take you the country of Iran in 1979. Tom Schaefer was working in the U.S. Embassy when he and others working there…
From a Knick-Knack to a Collection
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/04/10Apr20-Last-Supper-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Perhaps some husbands listening to this show have been told that if they want to bring a certain knick-knack home…
A Museum Dedicated to a Painting
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/04/09Apr20-Last-Supper-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1495 Leonardo Da Vinci began work on a painting that all of us have seen. In fact, it’s his…
The Promise of a Great Land Deal
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/04/08Apr20-William-Seward-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If he would have listened to most Americans, he would have run from the deal the moment he heard about…
Lincoln’s Competitor for the Presidential Nomination
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/04/07Apr20-William-Seward-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Political conventions were once places where presidential nominations were decided. In a moment we catch the intriguing story of the…
A Desert Surrounded by Timber
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/04/06Apr20-Desert-of-Maine.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Deserts are supposed to be hot, dry and void of trees. This desert is surrounded by timber, gets plenty of…
A Very Long Ride
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/03/03Apr20-Pony-Express-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Bronco Charlie was a great horse rider. He will forever hold a place in history as the youngest man to…
