Category: Washington, DC
The Arlington Ladies
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/01Oct21-Arlington-Ladies.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)On Memorial Day we remember our loved ones, but these ladies recognize our fallen soldiers this weekend and every day…
How Long Did The First Transcontinental Flight Take?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/07/04Aug21-Pioneers-of-Flight.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today a transcontinental flight from New York to L.A. might take about five hours. But do you know how long…
Inside The Thing
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/03/30Mar20-Spy-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s often referred to as simply, “The Thing.” That “thing” was a piece of equipment used to acquire secrets from…
Behind the Scenes at Arlington National Cemetary
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/10/25Oct19-Tom-Dittmer-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Many of us have perhaps watched the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National…
A White House Social Aid
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/10/24Oct19-Tom-Dittmer-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Every U.S. President hosts a variety of events at the White House throughout the year. OF course it takes a…
Honoring the Veterans of Vietnam
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/05/27May19-Vietnam-War-Memorial-2019.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Every Memorial Day we pay tribute to our family members and servicemen and women who have passed. We honor their…
Covering the Presidents
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/20Nov18-Tom-Hoy-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)When Tom Hoy was a newspaper man in Washington D.C. he had the thrill of covering two of the most…
Pictures of the Famous
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/19Nov18-Tom-Hoy-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)His pictures have appeared in newspapers and books from coast to coast and around the world…and even though you may…
A Museum for Things Left Behind
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/28May18-Vietnam-Wall-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s a simple memorial. 140 black granite panels containing over 58,000 names. A simple memorial with deep meaning. A place…
Where Thousands Come to Pay Respect
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/25May18-Vietnam-Wall-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This Washington D.C. memorial is just a kid when compared to monuments to Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson that are nearby. …
Not “Just” a Wall
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/24May18-Vietnam-Wall-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)A few years ago I sat on a park bench and visited with a man about a wall he helped…
An Astronaut Program For Women
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/23Jan18-Mercury-Women-Program-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)In the early 1980s, the United States put its first woman into space, a full two decades after space travel…
Training Another Gender for Outer Space
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/22Jan18-Mercury-Women-Program-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)The first man in space, the first man to orbit the earth, the first man to walk on the moon…you…
The Unique Village in the City
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/30May17-Arlington-Cemetery-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It was a village inside Arlington National Cemetery…a place where people found refuge during the Civil War. This is the…
The Historic Spot at Arlington National Cemetery
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/29May17-Arlington-Cemetery-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Although most visitors to Arlington National Cemetery simply see the Tomb of the Unknowns and perhaps the JFK grave site…there…
From Summer Job to Over 30 Year Career
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/26May17-Arlington-Cemetery-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Tom thought he was coming here simply to fill a summer job. After more than 30 years later, he says…
Burning the White House
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/22Aug14-White-House-1812-War-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It was an act that seemed unthinkable. Another nation’s army marched into the United States capital and burned its most important government…
The Most Famous Lady to Occupy the White House
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/21Aug14-White-House-1812-War-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Perhaps the most famous first lady to ever occupy the White House was Dolly Madison. She was known to host parties…
George Washington’s Influence on the White House Design
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/20Aug14-White-House-1812-War-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Although George Washington was the nation’s first president, he never got to live inside the presidential mansion that was being constructed in…
The Affect of Farming on Building the White House and Capitol
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/19Aug14-White-House-1812-War-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was a long and tedious process to build the U.S. Capitol and what we know as the White House. The…
