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Posted in American Countryside Best of Colorado

Before Got Milk–The Evil Beverage

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/04/23Apr18-Prohibition-Party-2018-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Before there was a Got Milk slogan…some dairymen used an amendment to the constitution to help keep their product ahead…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Colorado

Political Party History

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/04/20Apr18-Prohibition-Party-2018-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)You may have thought this political party died when this became legal again back in the 1930s.  You’ll be intrigued…

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Posted in American Countryside South Dakota

Time to Make the Donuts

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/04/19Apr18-Wall-Drug-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)What’s the first thing a father teaches his son about being a good businessman?  How to make donuts of course! …

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Posted in American Countryside South Dakota

Disassociation with Wall, South Dakota

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/04/18Apr18-Wall-Drug-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)If you’ve heard of Wall, South Dakota then you’ve heard of Wall Drug.  But there was a time when a…

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Posted in American Countryside South Dakota

Offering A Drink of Water

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/04/17Apr18-Wall-Drug-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)If someone is thirsty you might offer them something to drink.  What seems commonplace served as a business inspiration that…

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Posted in American Countryside South Dakota

Putting Down Roots for a New Business

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/04/16Apr18-Wall-Drug-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The Depression was in full swing and a young family was looking for a place to put down roots and…

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Posted in American Countryside baseball Best of Kansas City Missouri

50 Years of Broadcasting Major League Baseball

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/04/13Apr18-Denny-Matthews-50th-Season-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)162 games a year for 50 years…that’s over 8000 baseball games…and this man has seen virtually every single one of…

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Posted in American Countryside baseball Best of Kansas City Missouri

Keeping the Listener Interested Calling a Ballgame

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/04/12Apr18-Denny-Matthews-50th-Season-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When a baseball broadcaster has to describe a game that is lackluster at best, they may resort to talking about…

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Posted in American Countryside Missouri

Getting a Mule to Obey

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/04/11Apr18-Wilbur-Taylor-Mules-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Mules can be stubborn.  So what do you do with a mule that simply won’t obey?  Wilbur was told what…

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Posted in American Countryside Missouri

A Medic Caring for Four Legs

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/04/10Apr18-Wilbur-Taylor-Mules-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Medics are an important part of an army, taking care of the wounded on the front lines, risking their own…

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Posted in American Countryside Missouri

Taking Skills from the Farm to War

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/04/09Apr18-Wilbur-Taylor-Mules-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Like many young American men in the 1940s, Wilbur Taylor was headed to war.  But his job would be a…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Pennsylvania

Sorting the Facts and Myths of Edgar Allen Poe

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/03/06Apr18-Edgar-Allen-Poe-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Edgar Allen Poe could write some amazing fictional tales…but perhaps some of most intriguing fiction was that he told about…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Pennsylvania

One of the Nation’s Most Famous Writers

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/03/05Apr18-Edgar-Allen-Poe-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)He is one of the nation’s most famous writers and although he bounced from city to city, it was here…

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Posted in American Countryside Arizona

A Science Laboratory Open to the Public

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/03/04Apr18-Biosphere-II-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)You don’t often this of a science laboratory as a tourist attraction.  While it wasn’t built for that purpose, it…

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Posted in American Countryside Arizona

They Call It Biosphere 2

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/03/03Apr18-Biosphere-II-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)For the folks who work here, we don’t live on earth but rather Biosphere 1.  That’s why their facility is…

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Posted in American Countryside Arizona

More Than Plants Under Glass

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/03/02Apr18-Biosphere-II-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Some might call it a greenhouse, but it’s far more that plants under glass.  It’s a amazing facility doing cutting…

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Posted in American Countryside Indiana

A Life Bigger Than a Patent

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/03/30Mar18-Greenburg-Carl-Fisher.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He made millions with an important invention for an automobile.  But his life was far bigger than just that patent…

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Posted in American Countryside Ohio

A Meeting of Notables

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/03/29Mar18-Treaty-of-Greenville-Ohio-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The years was 1795 and on what was then the western frontier of the United States, a meeting of some…

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Posted in American Countryside Ohio

Fort Greenville

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/03/28Mar18-Treaty-of-Greenville-Ohio-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It was one the largest forts of its day, yet a place hard to find a trace of today.  The…

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Posted in American Countryside Ohio

Westward Expansion and an Inevitable Confrontation

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/03/27Mar18-Treaty-of-Greenville-Ohio-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It is a story of westward expansion and the inevitable confrontation of those heading west and those already on the…

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