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Not Quite a Pipe Organ
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/05Feb25-Springfield-Armory-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In Springfield, Massachusetts you’ll find a site that resembles a large pipe organ. In fact, that is part of it’s…
Making Our Own Weapons
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/04Feb25-Springfield-Armory-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the colonies declared there independence from England, they had to fight a war using guns mostly made in other…
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/03Feb25-Eureka-Springs-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine a seven story hotel in which each floor is a ground floor. We’ll take you to the town where…
A Place Where Water is More Than Water
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/31Jan25-Eureka-Springs-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you think water is just water, then don’t tell the folks in this small town, because it’s the water…
70 Miles From Land
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/30Jan25-Dry-Tortugas-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Alcatraz was known as one of the most difficult prisons from which to make an escape. It’s location in San…
Dry Tortugas
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/29Jan25-Dry-Tortugas-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The name of a place can sometimes tell you a lot about what the surrounding area may be like. That…
Too Many Floral Print Shirts
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/28Jan25-Little-White-House-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you go to a tropical location, some people might decide to don a floral print shirt. But things got…
The Little White House
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/27Jan25-Little-White-House-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This Naval Base would not have drawn much attention if not for a doctor who ordered a president he needed…
Jim the Wonder Dog
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/24Jan25-Jim-the-Wonder-Dog-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Any betting man or woman would love to know the winners before placing a wager. The people of Marshall, Missouri…
A Dog that Learned Amazing Tricks
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/23Jan25-Jim-the-Wonder-Dog-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many people have dogs and some of us have even taught our dogs to do tricks. But Sam had a…
An Excellent Hunting Dog that Became More
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/22Jan25-Jim-the-Wonder-Dog-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It all began quite by accident. A pup mysteriously arrived on a train, addressed to a man who loved to…
The Gila Cliff Dwellings
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/21Jan25-Gila-Cliff-Dwellings-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It requires some time and effort to make the drive up highway 15 north of Silver City, New Mexico. The…
A Different Cliff Dwelling
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/20Jan25-Gila-Cliff-Dwellings-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many people visit famous Native American cliff dwellings such as Mesa Verde in Colorado. But here, north of Silver City,…
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…
