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Posted in American Countryside Vermont

Hyde Cabin

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/04/25Apr25-Hero-Island-Lake-Champlain-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The oldest log cabin in New England is on an island in Vermont.  It’s a spot you can visit today,…

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Posted in American Countryside Vermont

Lake Champlain

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/04/24Apr25-Hero-Island-Lake-Champlain-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the northeastern part of Vermont you’ll find Lake Champlain, and in that body of water there are the Hero…

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Posted in American Countryside Massachusetts

Henry David Thoreau

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/04/23Apr25-Henry-David-Thoreau.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many writers take inspiration from nature.  That is certain true for this man who is known to take long walks…

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Posted in American Countryside Massachusetts

The Shot Heard ‘Round the World

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/04/22Apr25-Shot-Heard-Around-the-World-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It is know as the “shot heard ‘round the world.”  It was the shot considered to have begun the American…

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Posted in American Countryside Massachusetts

A Meeting at the Old North Bridge

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/04/21Apr25-Shot-Heard-Around-the-World-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s been about 250 years since British Regulars met Citizens of Concord, known as the Provincials at the Old North…

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Posted in American Countryside Louisiana

Shreveport; and the Shroud of Turin

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/04/18Apr25-Shroud-of-Turin-Shreveport-1-.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Although the Shroud of Turin is located in Italy, the research and a traveling exhibit about it have connections to…

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Posted in American Countryside Louisiana

Shreveport’s Easter Connection

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/04/17Apr25-Shroud-of-Turin-Shreveport-1-.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Easter week is a time Christians celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.  In Shreveport, Louisiana you’ll find a…

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Posted in American Countryside Louisiana

Murder of the Other’s Ancestor

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/04/16Apr25-Colfax-Massacre-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They are an unlikely duo.  Turn back the clock to the 1870s, and one ancestor participated in the murder of…

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Posted in American Countryside Louisiana

Unknown Local History

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/04/15Apr25-Colfax-Massacre-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When Avery Hamilton began researching his ancestors, he found a chapter of local history unknown to him.  The more he…

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Posted in American Countryside Louisiana

The Colfax Massacre

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/04/14Apr25-Colfax-Massacre-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the years after the Civil War, amendments to the U.S. constitution were written to provide former slaves with the…

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Posted in American Countryside Colorado

A Family From Five Points

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/11Apr25-Black-American-West-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If your family lived in the Five Points area of Denver, Colorado in the first half of the 20th century,…

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Posted in American Countryside Colorado

Perception Isn’t Always Reality

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/10Apr25-Black-American-West-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There is a cliché that says, “Perception is reality.”  For Paul Stewart, his perception growing up was that young men…

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Posted in American Countryside Kansas

Works of Art

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/09Apr25-Troy-Kansas-Peter-Toth-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)To some, they resemble totem poles, but the works of art are more modern and quite intricate.  At least one…

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Posted in American Countryside Kansas

The Story of Peter Toth

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/08Apr25-Troy-Kansas-Peter-Toth-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Peter Toth was just a boy when his family was forced to leave Hungary.  The event left a lasting impression…

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Posted in American Countryside Kansas

Lincoln’s Furthest Trip West

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/07Apr25-Troy-Kansas-Lincoln-Visit.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)People often associate Abraham Lincoln with the states of Illinois or perhaps his birthplace in Kentucky.  But what state is…

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Posted in American Countryside Oklahoma

Rodeo on a Field Trip

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/04Apr25-Ernest-Muncreif-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many schools take field trips.  They’re usually fun events for students to get some time out of the classroom.  But…

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Posted in American Countryside Oklahoma

The Battered Bucket Award

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/03Apr25-Ernest-Muncreif-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are major awards like Oscars, Grammys and Nobel Peace Prizes. Then, there is the Battered Bucket Award.  You’ve probably…

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Posted in American Countryside Virginia

Appomattox

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/02Apr25-Appamatox-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)After four years of Civil War the conflict had claimed over 630,000 lives.  It was time to begin the long…

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Posted in American Countryside Virginia

Where the Civil War Entered Its Final Chapter

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/01Apr25-Appamatox-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most Americans know it as the place where the Civil War ended.  Although that is not technically true, it is…

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Posted in American Countryside Colorado

The Impact on One Colorado Town

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/31Mar25-Steamboat-Springs-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A brick layer from Norway came to this country in the early 1900s.  The impact he had in one Colorado…

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