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Bob Had a Secret
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/07/13Jul18-Faulkton-Carousel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Bob had a secret. Not a bad secret, but a secret nonetheless from his childhood. When his wife learned what…
Tabloid Reporting Over a Century Ago
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/07/12Jul18-Annie-Oakley-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If the tabloids report it, is the story really true? Over a century ago, many American believed this star had…
Shooting Apples Off Heads
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/07/11Jul18-Annie-Oakley-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Perhaps you’ve heard of someone shooting an apple off of someone’s head or hitting a cigarette in someone’s mouth. It…
Amazing and Totally Unexpected Skills
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/07/10Jul18-Annie-Oakley-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Her skills were amazing and totally unexpected. A young lady from the frontier was outshooting men of all ages and…
Greenville, Ohio’s Most Popular Person
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/07/09Jul18-Annie-Oakley-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)She is arguably the most famous person to grow up in Greenville, Ohio. You’ve most likely heard of her and…
The Story of Daddy Bryson
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/06Jul18-Smokey-Mountain-Railroad-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)His name was Daddy Bryson…and he became one of the best-known train engineers in the Smoky Mountains…not because of his…
Logging to Create A Park
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/05Jul18-Smokey-Mountain-Railroad-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Visitors to Smoky Mountain National Park can wander miles of trails that meander through endless forests. It wasn’t that long…
A Bell That Took Time to Become Famous
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/04Jul18-Liberty-Bell.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)July 4th, 1776. It’s Indpendence Day in the United States and one of the symbols of our freedom is the…
When George Washington Surrendered
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/03Jul18-Fort-Necessity-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was the only time General Washington ever surrendered an army…and that just may have everything to do with July…
Shaping Independence
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/02Jul18-Fort-Necessity-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s a war most American know little about, yet it’s a conflict that shaped America’s war for Independence just a…
Naturalist John Muir
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/29Jun18-John-Muir-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Over a century ago, President Roosevelt was so interested in preserving natural wonders, he traveled all the way to California…
Nature Closer to Home
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/28Jun18-John-Muir-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When this man’s trip to the Amazon fell through, he instead began to travel this country to see all that…
An Unusual Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/27Jun18-Vinegar-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When you pull up to this small building, you may be surprised to learn that people are making detours just…
Knowledgeable About Vinegar
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/26Jun18-Vinegar-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a product you can find named in the Bible and in ancient texts. However, it’s something that is familiar…
Putting the Town on the Map
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/25Jun18-Vinegar-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Lawrence Diggs is not you average citizen. If he seemed out-of-place here, he certainly wasn’t for long as the residents…
An American Idol
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/22Jun18-American-Idol-Garett-Miles.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You never know who you might meet when doing an interview. On a recent trip to Alabama to a historic…
A Place Known As Traveler’s Rest
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/21Jun18-Travelers-Rest-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was a meeting place, a point were Lewis and Clark twice stopped during very important points in their journey…
The Lolo Trail
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/20Jun18-Travelers-Rest-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was the most difficult climb in their journey west–the Rocky mountains of Montana and Idaho. We hit the Lolo…
Poker Alice
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/19Jun18-Rapid-City-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)She was simply known as Poker Alice. She was an expert card player who used to begin each game by…
Rapid City’s Historical Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/15Jun18-Rapid-City-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we say hello to our listeners on KOTA in Rapid City, South Dakota. Residents there know of an amazing…