Category: Massachusetts
The A.D. Makepeace Farm
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/27Nov23-AD-Makepeace-Cranberry-Farm-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s hard to imagine a farm growing a crop from vines that are over a century old. But that’s exactly…
Flooding the Fields
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/24Nov23-AD-Makepeace-Cranberry-Farm-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most farmers want to avoid a flood that drenches their crops. Here, it’s just part of the process to keep…
A Place Once Known for Mining Iron
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/23Nov23-AD-Makepeace-Cranberry-Farm-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s hard to image that a place once known for mining iron would become an area that later was recognized…
The First Farmers in America
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/22Nov23-Lewis-Clark-Sheheke.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They were the first farmers in America…growing the crops, fruits and vegetables to sustain their tribe as well as some…
The Mayflower’s Landing Spot
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/11/25Nov22-Mayflower-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we associate the Pilgrims with the town of Plymouth, Massachusetts. However, the landing spot was a bit accidental…
Pilgrims in Search of a Ship
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/11/24Nov22-Mayflower-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It just happened to be a ship that was available to sail, but the ship that was chosen is still…
The First Thanksgiving
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/11/26Nov21-Plymouth-Plantation.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We associate the first Thanksgiving with the Native American and Pilgrims living in Plymouth Colony. However, we know very little…
Rock Hunting
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/11/25Nov21-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…
Fact & Fiction of Paul Revere’s Ride
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/02Jul21-Paul-Revere-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Listen, my children, and you shall hear…Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere. It’s the beginning to that famous Longfellow…
The Famous American Revolutionary War Dentist
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/01Jul21-Paul-Revere-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He’s probably the most famous dentist in the American Revolutionary War. You might not know he cleaned teeth, but you…
The Renter Who Became Famous
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/02/16Feb21-Longfellow-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)George Washington is the father of the nation, but it’s this man’s name that is on the national historic site…
Raising An Army at Harvard
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/02/15Feb21-Longfellow-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today Harvard is recognized as one of the top universities in the world. In 1775, it became the home of…
What Happened to the Loyalists?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/02/12Feb21-Longfellow-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the American revolution began, there were many living in the colonies that remained loyal to the king. In many…
It’s Thanksgiving at Berkley Plantation
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/11/27Nov20-ThanksgivingcBerkley-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…
Celebrating Thanksgiving at Plymouth Rock
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/11/26Nov20-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…
Boston’s Black Tide
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/10Jun20-Dark-Tide-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When a massive tank of molasses burst on Boston’s Commerical Street in 1919, 21 lives were lost in the resulting…
A Wall of Molasses
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/09Jun20-Dark-Tide-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)At first it may sound like a hoax, a wall of molasses moving through the city of Boston swallowing everything…
Where Water Powers the Machines
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/02/24Feb20-Saugus-Ironworks-2020.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It is a factory that began operation over a century before England’s colonies became the United State of America. We…
Sandwiched Between Two Notable Presidents
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/02/17Feb20-John-Adams.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)His presidency was sandwiched between presidential greats George Washington and Thomas Jefferson…and unfortunately, much of his work in helping form…
The Mayflower II
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/11/29Nov19-Mayflower-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The original Mayflower that sailed with 102 Pilgrims back in 1620 is long gone. But another ship by the same…
