Category: Alabama
Full Speed Ahead!
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/08/13Sep24-Fort-Morgan-Alabama-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Perhaps you vaguely remember from your history books the words of a ship captain in war exclaiming, “Damn the torpedoes,…
Battling Over This Vacation Spot
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/08/12Sep24-Fort-Morgan-Alabama-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today most people venture to this spot along the Gulf Coast for its scenic beauty. Turn back the clock a…
An Italian Settlement Along the Gulf Shores
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/03Aug23-Daphne-Alabama-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some cities or regions are known for the nationalities of the people who settled there. But this perhaps seems a…
A Tree with Notoriety
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/02Aug23-Daphne-Alabama-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The resort was a place that saw entertainers of the day stop and provider performances…Alfred says even President Millard Fillmore…
The Captain Who Needed Some Water
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/01Aug23-Daphne-Alabama-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Did you ever visit a location and say to yourself, “I wish I could live here.” That’s in a since…
Who Inhabited Russel Cave?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/14Sep21-Russell-Cave-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today you might get bad teeth from drinking too much soda…ten thousand years ago teeth were a problem as well…but…
The Unusual National Park Cave
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/13Sep21-Russell-Cave-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a cave in the national park system…yet it is far different that well known sites such as Mammoth Cave…
An American Idol
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/22Jun18-American-Idol-Garett-Miles.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You never know who you might meet when doing an interview. On a recent trip to Alabama to a historic…
The Right Type of Syrup
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/02/14Feb18-Todd-Syrup-Farm-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Lots of people enjoy pure maple syrup. But if you ask this farmer what he thinks of it, well you’ll…
A Farm With Its Own Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/02/13Feb18-Todd-Syrup-Farm-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)Joe’s farm is so old he has his own museum. He’ll show it to you if you come to visit. …
A Farm With A Long Lineage
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/02/12Feb18-Todd-Syrup-Farm-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In some parts of the country having a farm that is over a century old is quite an accomplishment. For…
Best of 2017: A Tribute to the Boll Weevil
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/11/29Dec17-Best-of-2017-Enterprise-Boll-Weevil.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Cotton was king in the southern U.S. in the early 20th century. However it was one of the tiniest of…
Best of 2017: The Coon Dog Cemetery
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/11/28Dec17-Best-of-2017-Coon-Dog-Cemetery.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:54 — 2.0MB)It looks like many cemeteries in the U.S. There are grave markers and flowers surrounding by many trees. But this…
Don’t Break My Heart
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/11/29Nov17-Achy-Breaky-Heart-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)You probably either loved it or hated it – the song Achy, Breaky Heart. It was a song that Don…
The Song With Roots in the Drive Thru
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/11/28Nov17-Achy-Breaky-Heart-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It all began in the drive thru line at Hardee’s. That was the place that inspired one of the most…
A Skilled Songwriter
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/11/27Nov17-Achy-Breaky-Heart-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)We often know songs by who sings them instead of who writes them. Today we visit with one very skilled…
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…
