http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/22Nov18-Plymouth-Plantation-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Some regions of the country are better suited for specific crops.  That was the case for the Pilgrims who established…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/21Nov18-Squanto.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1620, the men and women we call the “Pilgrims” landed near Cape Cod, and eventually established Plymouth Colony.  As…

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/2018/11/16Nov18-Tom-Hoy-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)When you sit down with Tom Hoy you will get a behind the scenes look at some of the biggest…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/15Nov18-Utah-Territorial-Captiol.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)If you know your fifty states and their capitals…you of course remember that Fillmore is the capital of Deseret…at least…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/14Nov18-Kate-Shelley-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)If you live in the state of Iowa you perhaps know the name of Kate Shelly.  At one time she…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/13Nov18-Kate-Shelley-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)There was a disaster lurking in the darkness.  A rail bridge had washed out and a passenger train would soon…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/12Nov18-Cherokee-Strip-Land-Rush-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Imagine a train chugging south out of Kansas with people jumping from the cars all along its route.  This is…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/09Nov18-Cherokee-Strip-Land-Rush-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It’s called the Cherokee Strip…a stretch of land in north central Oklahoma originally given to the Cherokee and later opened…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/08Nov18-Benedict-Arnold-6.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of John Paulding, Isaac Van Wart or David Williams.  Yet, each has a…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/07Nov18-Benedict-Arnold-5.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)If you’re going to be a spy, it’s best to not be carrying incriminating evidence.  So when this man took…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/06Nov18-Benedict-Arnold-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)If you are a soldier in battle, you usually don’t want to be trapped behind enemy lines.  Yet that is…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/05Nov18-Benedict-Arnold-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)There is a cliché that says, “We are known by the friends we keep.”  One of the friends of this…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/10/02Nov18-Benedict-Arnold-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It’s a story that involves war heroes, love and espionage.  It may sound like a novel, but it was real…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/10/01Nov18-Benedict-Arnold-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Today I’ll introduce you to an American war hero – a man who had a great hand in this country’s…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/10/31Oct18-Sleepy-Hollow-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It’s a story fitting of Halloween.  The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and the headless horseman.  Today we go to the…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/10/30Oct18-Sleepy-Hollow-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Mention the name Sleepy Hollow and our minds quickly jump to tales of a headless horseman.  It’s quite a tale…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/10/29Oct18-Sleepy-Hollow-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)You don’t think of a graveyard as a place where children would play.  But here that was the case, and…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/10/26Oct18-Fort-Fredrica.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)When European nations sailed to America, each began to lay claim to new lands.  Many built forts to protect their…