http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/13Nov23-Octagon-House-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the British entered the Washington, D.C. during the War of 1812, they burned many of the government’s buildings, including…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/10Nov23-Octagon-House-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Everyone knows the Pentagon is in Washington.  But did you know the city is home to an Octagon as well? …

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/18Sep23-Willard-Hotel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The round bar at the Willard Hotel has been the places where generations of politicians, celebrities and power brokers have…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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. …

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…

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…

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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…

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…

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…

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…