http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/11/01Dec17-Valley-Camp-Sault-Ste-Marie-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s called the Valley Camp, and no it’s not a campground and no it’s not in a valley.  But that’s…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/11/30Nov17-Valley-Camp-Sault-Ste-Marie-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)What is the oldest city in Michigan?  We’ll give you a moment to ponder the answer and the founder and…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/11/29Nov17-Achy-Breaky-Heart-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)You probably either loved it or hated it – the song Achy, Breaky Heart.  It was a song that Don…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/11/28Nov17-Achy-Breaky-Heart-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It all began in the drive thru line at Hardee’s.  That was the place that inspired one of the most…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/11/27Nov17-Achy-Breaky-Heart-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)We often know songs by who sings them instead of who writes them.  Today we visit with one very skilled…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/11/24Nov17-Thanksgiving-Berkley-Plantation.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may have thought Thanksgiving dates back to the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony in today’s state of Massaschusettes.  But, in…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/11/23Nov17-Thanksgiving-Plymouth-Rock.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Each Thanksgiving we are likely to remember the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth Rock.  But is that rock really the…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/11/22Nov17-Mummy-Exhibit-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today’s show is about something called mummy bundles.  That term may give you scary visions of Halloween goblins, but it…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/11/21Nov17-Mummy-Exhibit-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When you think of mummies, you perhaps have pictures of Eqyptian mummies and the pyramids. But today’s program will take…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/11/20Nov17-Lock-N-Lube.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s said the squeaky wheel gets the grease.  Russell’s problem was that he had plenty of squeaking wheels and none…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/17Nov17-Laila-Ali-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It was Ali versus Frazier. Not that Ali versus Frazier, but their kids…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/16Nov17-Laila-Ali-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Sometimes parents influence their children in a direction they think best for them.  In this case, the father encouraged the…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/15Nov17-Laila-Ali-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)He was simply known as “the champ.”  He had the physical abilities to take him to the top of his…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/14Nov17-Helen-Keller-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Imagine a world in which you could not see anything nor hear a sound.  That was this lady’s world, yet…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/13Nov17-Helen-Keller-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Sometimes teachers encounter challenging students.  This student went so far as to lock their teacher in the classroom and throw…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/10Nov17-Helen-Keller-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB) Today there are resources to help those with physical challenges, but a century ago that was often not the…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/09Nov17-Helen-Keller-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB) In Tuscumbia, Alabama you’ll find a homestead named Ivy Green.  And if you don’t know that name, you certainly…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/08Nov17-Gipper-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:03 — 2.1MB) You most likely know this football player, not for what he did on the gridiron, but instead for what…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/07Nov17-Gipper-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB) He was one of the nation’s first multi-sport stars but you know him for football and the movie that…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/06Nov17-Gipper-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)He went to Notre Dame, despite the fact he did not have a High School diploma.  And once he got…