Category: Best of
The Battle of the Hemp Bales
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/19Aug13-Battle-of-the-Hemp-Bales.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)The bullet holes still scar the inside and outside of this home, a place that was a hospital during a…
Vermont’s Only National Park
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/12Aug13-Marsh-Billings-Rockafeller.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ve heard of Yellowstone and Yosemite, but try naming the State of Vermont’s only national park…
A Nice Place Called Peculiar
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/05Aug13-Peculiar-Missouri.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Not all of us can live in a normal place. While most of the nation resides in cities that are…
Racing on Mount Washington
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/04Jun13-Mt-Washington-Road-Race.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine running the Daytona 500 on a mountain road with steep grades and no guardrails. The cars may not be…
Dinosaur Valley Park
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/27May13-Dinosaur-Valley-2013.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)The animal tracks are three foot in width–and they are real–not made by an imaginary bigfoot, but plain to see…
A Lost Colony
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/21May13-RoanokeFtRiley.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s known as the lost colony of Roanoke–a settlement of English that vanished between 1587 and 1590 in what is…
The Last Battle of the Civil War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/20May13-Brownsville-TX-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Where was the last battle of the Civil War waged? Few can answer that questions correctly…and the battlefield is far…
Brownsville, Texas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/17May13-Brownsville-TX-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Just up river from the mouth of the Rio Grande river you will find sister cities that have played a…
Lava Beds National Monument
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/06May13-Lava-Tubes-National-Park.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)In this barren stretch of the West, you can find the landscape scarred by the lava from thousands of years…
The Battle of Boonville
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/03May13-Battle-of-Booneville.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)As you may know, we do all of our stories from the actual location where they occur. While we did…
The Streetcars of New Orleans
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/29Apr13-New-Orleans-Streetcar.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In many cities taxies, busses and subways may be the best ways to get around town if you don’t have…
A Visit to a Cemetery
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/26Apr13-New-Orleans-Cemetery.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)A couple of centuries ago this city had problems with caskets rising with the water and floating down the streets….
Mastadon Park
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/18Mar13-Mastadon-Park.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 1.4MB)Imagine you unearthed the bones of an animal and had little idea of what you found. Now imagine making up…
The Story of Daddy Bryson
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/15Mar13-Smokey-Mountain-Railroad.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)His name was Daddy Bryson…and he became one of the best known train engineers in the Smoky Mountains…not because of…
A Train Depot in Palm Springs
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/05Mar13-Palm-Springs-History.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)When the rails came through this stretch of dry wilderness, the only people living here were the Cahuilla Indians. What…
Near Liberation from a POW Camp
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/27Feb13-POW-Tom-Crosby.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 1.4MB)American troops had finally made it to Manila and were attempting to free POWs like Tom Crosby. Just when things…
Root Capitol
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/01/18Jan12-Root-Capitol.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 1.4MB)Willy Foote saw farmers and farmer cooperatives in developing nations often struggle to survive. What resulted was a vision that…
Pearl Harbor Survivor Al Bodenlos
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/01/17Jan12-Al-Bodenlos-Pearl-Harbor.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 1.4MB)Al can tell you plenty about building airport runways. Of course, most of those he helped build were on surfaces…
Chattanooga Battlefield
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/01/16Jan12-Chattanooga-Battlefield.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Imagine being a slave at the beginning of the Civil War only later to have an opportunity to join the…
Best of 2011: Barbara Law
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/12/30Dec11-Best-of-2011-Barbara-Law.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Our best of 2012 continues today with a lady named Barbara who was a teenager living in Japan when World…
