Category: Virginia
Cyrus McCormick
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Cyrus-McCormick.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 952.9KB)For centuries, crops were cut and threshed by hand. That all changed with a young farmer in Virginia. This is…
The Battle of Cedar Creek
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Cedar-Creek-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)There are nearly 400 national park sites in the United States. Today we visit one of the newest in the…
Burning the Fields
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Cedar-Creek-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Farmer’s crops can fall prey to the elements of mother nature. Heat, hail, wind and much more can destroy a…
Belle Grove Plantation
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Belle-Grove-Plantation.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Our history books tell us the south had many slave holding plantations in the years leading up to the Civil…
Facing Challenges in the East
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/09/Matt-Lohr-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Virginia’s farmers may not be in the middle of the corn belt, but the challenges they face are something all…
A Great Pumpkin Patch
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/09/Matt-Lohr-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Not many people make their living off of a pumpkin patch. Matt and Andrea Lohr don’t pay all of the…
A Farm In Virginia
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/09/Matt-Lohr-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Matt Lohr has accomplished much in life before the age of 40. He’s served multiple terms in his state’s legislature,…
Stories of Tragedy and Triumph at the Freedom House
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/09/Freedom-House-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)It is called the Freedom House. This free museum is housed in what used to be the headquarters of one…
The Freedom House
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/09/Freedom-House-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)I always enjoy the chance to explore Alexandria, Virginia. It’s a historic city and I recently happened upon a new…
The Battle of New Market
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/09/Battle-of-New-Market-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)There was nothing left to do. A group of 15-21 year old students would be forced into battle if there…
Gaining Control of the Breadbasket
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/09/Battle-of-New-Market-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley is one of the most scenic farming regions in the world. The fertile valley is flanked by…
Honoring America’s Heroes
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/07/Arlington-Tomb-Guard-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 956.3KB)Every independence day we celebrate our freedom. This soldier is reminded of the cost of that freedom as he protects…
A Uniform of Perfection
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Arlington-Tomb-Guard-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 940.8KB)Some jobs require you to wear a uniform. Imagine a job where that uniform had to be worn with perfection…where…
Freedman’s Village and Arlington National Cemetery
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Section-27-Arlington-Cemetery-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 940.2KB)It was a village inside Arlington National Cemetery, a place where people found refuge during the Civil War. Here’s the…
Arlington National Cemetery’s Section 27
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Section-27-Arlington-Cemetery-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.8KB)Although most visitors to Arlington National Cemetery simply see the Tomb of the Unknowns and perhaps the JFK grave site,…
A Historian for Arlington National Cemetery
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/05/Arlington-Cemetery-Historian.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.8MB)Tom thought he was coming here simply to fill a summer job. Over 30 years later, he’s still here, but…
The Army Arlington Ladies
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/05/Army-Arlington-Ladies.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 941.2KB)On Memorial Day we remember our loved ones, but these ladies recognize our fallen soldiers this weekend and every day…
George Washington
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/02/George-Washington-2010.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 950.0KB)Sometimes a person gains so much fame, they become bigger than life. So is that the case when we hear…
Frederick Douglass
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/01/Frederick-Douglass.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 957.1KB)Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a national holiday, but this man is noted by some to be the grandfather…
