Category: American Countryside
Mammoth Springs
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/Mammoth-Springs.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)When farmers put hay bales in this spring, the reappeared three days later seven miles away. The underground waterway just…
Fact vs Fiction of the Famous Ride
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/Paul-Revere-2011-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)LISTEN, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere. On the eighteenth of April, in…
A Famous Dentist
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/Paul-Revere-2011-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)He’s probably the most famous dentist that helped win the Revolutionary War. You might not know he cleaned teeth, but…
A Delicious Fruit
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/Red-Delicious-Apples-2011.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)It’s one of the world’s most popular varieties of fruit and we have it because one farmer couldn’t get a…
St. Genevieve, Missouri
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/St-Genevieve-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)We’ve all seen a log cabin. Such structures were the norm for many Americans early in the country’s history. But…
A Town on the Banks of the Mississippi
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/St-Genevieve-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)When these French Catholics learned that the British Protestants had taken over, they weren’t pleased. It may be the reason…
The Boneyard
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/Boneyard-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)It’s the fifth largest air force in the world, but few of the planes here will fly. Even if they…
Looking For Used Parts
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/Boneyard-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)If you were looking for some used parts to repair your car, you might go to a scrapyard to find…
The Nation’s First Banks
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/Old-State-Banks-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Today, you can find banks and ATM machines seemingly everywhere. But in the first few decades following the founding of…
Death Valley
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/Death-Valley-2011-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Because Death Valley is such a difficult environment to support plant and animal life, most suppose that is how it…
Crossing the Nation’s Hottest Valley
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/Death-Valley-2011-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)On the border of California and Nevada you will find a place that has daunted countless travelers for the past…
A Talking Dog
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/Rogers-Theatre-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Today we make history on the American Countryside, for today we feature a talking dog. Don’t think dogs can talk?…
Roger’s Theatre
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/Rogers-Theatre-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)There was a time when just about every town in America boasted a one or two screen, main street movie…
Moose Tours
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/Moose-Tours.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)A town’s residents may pay taxes in order to support city services. In this town, the moose may be funding…
Clark’s Trading Post
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/Clarks-Trading-Post-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Imagine a animal show where bears bolted from the stage to barrel past tourist and make a break for the…
A Roadside Stopper
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/Clarks-Trading-Post-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Along I-93 in northern New Hampshire you’ll find a spot that’s been attracting families for three and four generations now….
A Place Called Hildene
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/Hildene-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky and lived most of his adult years in Illinois. But where did future generations…
The Son of a US President
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/Hildene-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Being the son of a U.S. president has its perks. However, it does provide a very high bar of achievement…
British or Revolutionary?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/St-Pauls-Church-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, Lutheran–there are many labels that may be placed on churches. However, during the early years of this…
St. Paul’s Church
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/St-Pauls-Church-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Just outside of New York City proper, yet well within the urban corridor, sits a church in the suburb of…
