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The First Tourist to Where the American Revolution Began
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/17Jan25-Munroe-Tavern-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Thousands of tourists come to Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts every year to see the place where the American Revolution began. …
The Munroe Tavern
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/16Jan25-Munroe-Tavern-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In Lexington, Massachusetts you’ll find an old tavern with quite a story connected to the first shots of the American…
The Spot Where The Fight for Independence Began
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/15Jan25-Lexington-Green-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The United States proclaimed its independence on July 4, 1776. It witnessed its first deaths in the fight for freedom…
A Tavern Older Than the Country
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/14Jan25-Lexington-Green-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Next to the historic green in Lexington, Massachusetts, you’ll find a tavern that is a few decades older than this…
The Line on the Library Floor
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/13Jan25-Haskell-Library-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There is a black tape line on the floor of the library in Derby Line, Vermont. Walk inside and cross…
The Library in Derby Line, Vermont
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/10Jan25-Haskell-Library-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many communities have a library. So it’s not unusual that this town in Vermont has a public library. What is…
The Story of Hetty Green
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/09Jan25-Hetty-Green-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some called her the Queen of Wall Street. Others said she was the Witch of Wall Street. A trip to…
One of the Richest Women in the World
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/08Jan25-Hetty-Green-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)She was one of the richest women in the world. A quaker who some thought was simply too miserly in…
Bellows Falls
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/07Jan25-Bellows-Falls.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Connecticut River is the largest in the northeastern U.S. flowing over 400 miles from Quebec to Long Island Sound. …
Echo Bluff
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/06Jan25-Echo-Bluff.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s hard to find a road that runs straight for very long around Emminence, Missouri. Perhaps that’s the charm that…
A Place Called Pennytown
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/12/03Jan25-Penneytown-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Virginia Huston holds a unique distinction. She was the last child born in Pennytown. It’s a fact that holds much…
Establishing a New City
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/12/02Jan25-Penneytown-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Establishing a new city can take plenty of planning. Now imagine trying to begin that new town when others are…
Best of 2024 – The Hawaii Champion Cowboy
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/12/01Jan25-Best-of-2024-Hawaii-Champion-Cowboy.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The accomplishment was so spectacular it is still remembered over a century later. A cowboy journeyed thousands of miles to…
Best of 2024 – A KISS Homecoming
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/12/31Dec24-Best-of-2024-KISS-Homecoming.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There perhaps has never been a homecoming dance like the 1975 Cadillac, Michigan version. The students and the entire town…
Best of 2024 – The Lancaster Circuses
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/12/30Dec24-Best-of-2024-Lancaster-Circus.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Lancaster, Missouri is not a big town, but in the 1920s, the circuses came to town. And yes, I did…
Best of 2024 – Little America
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/12/27Dec24-Best-of-2024-Little-America.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This place isn’t really a town, yet it has its own zip code. Sometimes it’s a bit of a game…
Best of 2024 – Ismay, Montana
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/12/26Dec24-Best-of-2024-Ismay-Montana.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ll need to drive on six miles of gravel roads from the highway to get to the tiny town of…
One Classic Bell for One Classic Movie
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/12/25Dec24-Bevin-Bells-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Bells are often associated with the Christmas holiday. There is one bell in one classic Christmas movie that remains a…
Bells In Our Lives
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/12/24Dec24-Bevin-Bells-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Bells sometimes signal the beginning of a school day or a work day. At this company, the ringing of the…
Bevin Bells
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/12/23Dec24-Bevin-Bells-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Once upon a time, a farm needed bells. Bells were used in conjunction with livestock and other pursuits. Times have…
