Author: Tom
Thanksgiving at Plymouth Rock
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/11/23Nov17-Thanksgiving-Plymouth-Rock.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Each Thanksgiving we are likely to remember the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth Rock. But is that rock really the…
Mummy Bundles
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/11/22Nov17-Mummy-Exhibit-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today’s show is about something called mummy bundles. That term may give you scary visions of Halloween goblins, but it…
Mummies
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/11/21Nov17-Mummy-Exhibit-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When you think of mummies, you perhaps have pictures of Eqyptian mummies and the pyramids. But today’s program will take…
How the Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grease
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/11/20Nov17-Lock-N-Lube.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s said the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Russell’s problem was that he had plenty of squeaking wheels and none…
Ali vs. Frazier
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/17Nov17-Laila-Ali-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It was Ali versus Frazier. Not that Ali versus Frazier, but their kids…
Not Listening To Her Father
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/16Nov17-Laila-Ali-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Sometimes parents influence their children in a direction they think best for them. In this case, the father encouraged the…
Hearing about “The Champ” From His Daughter
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/15Nov17-Laila-Ali-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)He was simply known as “the champ.” He had the physical abilities to take him to the top of his…
A World Without Sight or Sound
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/14Nov17-Helen-Keller-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Imagine a world in which you could not see anything nor hear a sound. That was this lady’s world, yet…
Teachers and Challenging Students
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/13Nov17-Helen-Keller-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Sometimes teachers encounter challenging students. This student went so far as to lock their teacher in the classroom and throw…
A Remarkable Story
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/10Nov17-Helen-Keller-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB) Today there are resources to help those with physical challenges, but a century ago that was often not the…
The Girl Who Grew Up at Ivy Green
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/09Nov17-Helen-Keller-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB) In Tuscumbia, Alabama you’ll find a homestead named Ivy Green. And if you don’t know that name, you certainly…
Win One For the Gipper
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/08Nov17-Gipper-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:03 — 2.1MB) You most likely know this football player, not for what he did on the gridiron, but instead for what…
A Multi-Sport Star Known For Football
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/07Nov17-Gipper-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB) He was one of the nation’s first multi-sport stars but you know him for football and the movie that…
Notre Dame Without a High School Diploma
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/06Nov17-Gipper-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)He went to Notre Dame, despite the fact he did not have a High School diploma. And once he got…
The Plantation of Belle Grove
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/03Nov17-Belle-Grove-Plantation.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Our history books tell us the south had many slave holding plantations in the years leading up to the Civil…
Battle in the Pasture
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/02Nov17-Cowpens-National-Battlefield-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)It was once known as just a giant pasture, but today it’s also the site of an important battle in…
Trying to Get Back to the Right Side of the Battle
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/01Nov17-Cowpens-National-Battlefield-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Imagine being captured during a war and then forced to fight against the army from which you came. What would…
Escaping to the South
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/31Oct17-Fort-Mose-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Long before there was an American Civil War waged over the issue of slavery, there was the struggle for slaves…
A Struggle for Freedom
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/30Oct17-Fort-Mose-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)In the marshlands on the northern edge of one of America’s oldest city, you’ll find an amazing story of the…
A Museum Dedicated to the Circus
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/27Oct17-Circus-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It all began with Albert, Otto, Alfred, Charles, and John. Without their last names, those first names might not mean…