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The Rock Café
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/03Dec18-Rock-Café.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It’s not the Hard Rock Café…and frankly…that is just fine with about everyone that stops here. It’s been called the…
Talking About Someone Famous For a Living
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/30Nov18-Jack-Stahlman-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Did you ever meet someone famous and then tell everyone about your encounter? That’s in a sense what Jack does…
Making It on the Screen
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/29Nov18-Jack-Stahlman-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)How to you become a well known actor in Hollywood? Well, that’s what Jack had to figure out, but it…
The Big Break
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/28Nov18-Jack-Stahlman-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Sometime you just need a break, a stroke of luck, the ball to bounce your way. Jack Stahlman got it. …
The Technology of Ethanol
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/27Nov18-Ethanol-Technology-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)We often think of ethanol as a home grown and domestically consumed product. That statement is true, but there is…
Ethanol-The Farmer’s LInk to Solving the Energy Crisis
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/26Nov18-Ethanol-Technology-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Once upon a time, I gave a speech as a FFA member titled, “Ethanol, the Farmer’s Link to Solving the…
A Man Named Squanto
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/23Nov18-Plymouth-Plantation-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)His name is one from our history books, but perhaps we have forgotten just how important his role was in…
A New Crop for a New Home
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/22Nov18-Plymouth-Plantation-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Some regions of the country are better suited for specific crops. That was the case for the Pilgrims who established…
Survival of the Pilgrims
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/21Nov18-Squanto.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1620, the men and women we call the “Pilgrims” landed near Cape Cod, and eventually established Plymouth Colony. As…
Covering the Presidents
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/20Nov18-Tom-Hoy-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)When Tom Hoy was a newspaper man in Washington D.C. he had the thrill of covering two of the most…
Pictures of the Famous
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/19Nov18-Tom-Hoy-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)His pictures have appeared in newspapers and books from coast to coast and around the world…and even though you may…
Behind the Scenes with Tom Hoy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/16Nov18-Tom-Hoy-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)When you sit down with Tom Hoy you will get a behind the scenes look at some of the biggest…
The Capitol of Deseret
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/15Nov18-Utah-Territorial-Captiol.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)If you know your fifty states and their capitals…you of course remember that Fillmore is the capital of Deseret…at least…
The Story of Kate Shelley
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/14Nov18-Kate-Shelley-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)If you live in the state of Iowa you perhaps know the name of Kate Shelly. At one time she…
Disaster Lurking in the Darkness
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/13Nov18-Kate-Shelley-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)There was a disaster lurking in the darkness. A rail bridge had washed out and a passenger train would soon…
Jumping Off the Train
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/12Nov18-Cherokee-Strip-Land-Rush-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Imagine a train chugging south out of Kansas with people jumping from the cars all along its route. This is…
The Cherokee Strip
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/09Nov18-Cherokee-Strip-Land-Rush-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It’s called the Cherokee Strip…a stretch of land in north central Oklahoma originally given to the Cherokee and later opened…
The Trio Who Saved the Nation and a President
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/08Nov18-Benedict-Arnold-6.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of John Paulding, Isaac Van Wart or David Williams. Yet, each has a…
The Simple Rules of Being a Spy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/07Nov18-Benedict-Arnold-5.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)If you’re going to be a spy, it’s best to not be carrying incriminating evidence. So when this man took…
Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/06Nov18-Benedict-Arnold-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)If you are a soldier in battle, you usually don’t want to be trapped behind enemy lines. Yet that is…
