Category: American Countryside
The Birthplace of Stephen Douglas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/08/08Sep14-Stephen-Douglas-Birthplace.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Abraham Lincoln led the country through the Civil War, but it was this man who defeated him for the Senate…
Keep Your Clothes On! Inside Gadsby’s Tavern
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/08/05Sep14-Gadsbys-Tavern-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine staying in a hotel that encouraged you to sleep with your clothes and shoes on so that you could make…
A Tavern With a Rich History
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/08/04Sep14-Gadsbys-Tavern-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Many of the homes and businesses in Alexandria, Virginia can trace their history to the founding of the nation. That’s true…
El Cuartelejo
Near Kansas’ border with Colorado you can find a place called El Cuartelejo. It’s the ruins of an ancient home who’s occupants were on the run from…
Pueblo Dwellings in Kansas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/08/02Sep14-Scott-City-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In western Kansas you can find the foundations for an old Native American settlement. Perhaps that doesn’t seem too out of…
A Natural Wonder of Kansas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/08/01Sep14-Monument-Rocks.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s one of the natural wonders of Kansas. A place of white spires rising from the prairie plains that have been…
Cyrus McCormick and His Threshing Machine
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/29Aug14-Cyrus-McCormick.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)For centuries, crops were cut and threshed by hand. That all changed with a young farmer in Virginia. This is…
Building a Utopian Society
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/28Aug14-New-Harmony-Indiana-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1825, Robert Own of Wales, purchased an entire town in the state of Indiana. His dream was to create a…
A Place Called Harmony
Harmony. It might be defined as finding peace with one’s self and one another. That’s what the people who established the town of Harmony were looking…
A Long-Established Community
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/26Aug14-New-Harmony-Indiana-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are many reasons people came from Europe to the newly founded United States. Some came to find freedom to…
Developing the Self Scouring Plow
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/25Aug14-John-Deere-Plow.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Although you may associate his name with tractors, he never saw one. Yet his name is synonymous with the equipment used…
Burning the White House
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/22Aug14-White-House-1812-War-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It was an act that seemed unthinkable. Another nation’s army marched into the United States capital and burned its most important government…
The Most Famous Lady to Occupy the White House
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/21Aug14-White-House-1812-War-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Perhaps the most famous first lady to ever occupy the White House was Dolly Madison. She was known to host parties…
George Washington’s Influence on the White House Design
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/20Aug14-White-House-1812-War-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Although George Washington was the nation’s first president, he never got to live inside the presidential mansion that was being constructed in…
The Affect of Farming on Building the White House and Capitol
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/19Aug14-White-House-1812-War-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was a long and tedious process to build the U.S. Capitol and what we know as the White House. The…
The Fertile Farmland of Palmer, Alaska
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/18Aug14-Palmer-Alaska-Farmers-Market.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When you think of fertile farmland, you perhaps think of a location with deep rich soil in the Midwest. But…
A Trip to St. Genevieve, Missouri
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/08/15Aug14-St-Genevieve-Missouri.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We’ve all seen a log cabin. Such structures were the norm for many Americans early in the country’s history. But…
Hot Zone Falconry
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/08/14Aug14-Hot-Zone-Falconry-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Farmers might contract with someone to spray for weeds, fertilize the soil or harvest a crop. Some farmers even contract for…
The Problem with Birds for a Crop
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/08/13Aug14-Hot-Zone-Falconry-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are many challenges to growing a crop. Poor weather, weeds, and disease are just a few. We often don’t think…
Artichokes
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/08/12Aug14-Artichokes-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Some people turn up their nose at brussels sprouts. Where do artichokes fare in comparison? We head to a valley where…
