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From Church to Concert Series
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/02/05Feb19-Jason-Brown-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)Jason grew up singing on the farm and in church each Sunday. It led him to make it a career. …
One of the Most Famous Americans
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/02/04Feb19-Sequoyah-2019.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)His work helped teach an entire nation to read and write within a matter of just a few years. In…
Daniel Boone Working For Another Country
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/01Feb19-St-Louis-History-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Daniel Boone is one of the most famous American frontiersman. But when he crossed the Mississippi River, he went to…
One of the Oldest Cities on the Mississippi
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/31Jan19-St-Louis-History-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It’s one of the oldest and largest cities on the Mississippi River…and although some may have heard of names like…
A World Food Prize Winner
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/30Jan19-Rob-Fraley-CTO-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What the Oscars and Emmys are to movie and TV, the World Food Prize is to the world of agriculture. …
A Visit with the CTO
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/29Jan19-Rob-Fraley-CTO-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ve heard of a CEO or a COO, but what’s a CTO? It’s a very big and important title to…
A Community Valuing Those Who Passed Through
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/28Jan19-Aberdeen-Pheasant-Canteen-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was a tremendous meal that had to be prepared, every day, for about three years. And it was all…
A Stop in Aberdeen, South Dakota
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/25Jan19-Aberdeen-Pheasant-Canteen-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When the Unites States when to war in the 1940, thousands of troops began to criss-cross the country headed to…
The Home of a Founding Father
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/24Jan19-John-Jay-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Perhaps you’ve visited places like Mt. Vernon and Monticello, homes of founding fathers Washington and Jefferson. If you travel to…
A Witness to History
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/23Jan19-John-Jay-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine being pregnant, enduring a shipwreck, being away from your home for several years, and then, being present to see…
The First Supreme Court Chief Justice
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/22Jan19-John-Jay-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Who was the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court? It was a position this man coveted, until he…
The Forgotten Founding Father
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/21Jan19-John-Jay-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some have called him the forgotten founding father. Have you too forgotten about the man who was president before George…
The University of Arizona’s Old Main
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/18Jan19-University-of-Arizona-Old-Main.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When you walk across the center of this large university campus as I did, you’ll find a wide, permanent line…
When Pigs and Cows are ‘New’
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/17Jan19-Goodyear-Arizona-FFA.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine a school teaching agriculture in a place where few students have seen a farm animal. It’s a unique setting…
KINEKS
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/16Jan19-Jeffrey-Thimgan-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s called “KINEKS.” It’s an acronym for positive personal characteristics each of us should possess and it’s the name of…
A Young Man of Influence
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/15Jan19-Jeffrey-Thimgan-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There is probably someone in each of our lives that truly inspires us. Jeffrey Thimgan was one such young man. …
A Battle in Kansas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/14Jan19-John-Brown-Osawatamie-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)The shots at Ft. Sumter in April of 1861 are often considered the first military action of the Civil War. …
John Brown: The Early Years
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/11Jan19-John-Brown-Osawatamie-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In the years just ahead of the Civil War, thousands of people came to Kansas ahead of a critical vote…
The Elephant Hotel
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/10Jan19-Elephant-Hotel-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When you run across a building named the “Elephant Hotel,” well, there’s probably going to be an interesting story behind…
A Time Before Zoos and Circuses
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/09Jan19-Elephant-Hotel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Just about everyone one of us has visited a zoo and seen a circus. Now let me take you to…
