Category: American Countryside
A Situation All Too Familiar to the President Himself
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/12Jul17-Mary-Todd-Lincoln-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)During the Civil War many families were split over the issue of slavery. In some cases, brothers fought against each…
When Opposites Attract
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/11Jul17-Mary-Todd-Lincoln-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They might seem to be opposites. A rural, self-educated farm boy and a formally educated, French speaking young lady. But…
A Home Devoted To A First Lady
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/10Jul17-Mary-Todd-Lincoln-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)You can find several presidential homes devoted to the story of one of our country’s leaders. But it’s more difficult…
A Beloved War Correspondent
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/07Jul17-Ernie-Pyle-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When this journalist died, the president of the United States personally took to the airwaves to announce his death to…
Reporting The ‘Common Man’ During World War II
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/06Jul17-Ernie-Pyle-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When America sent troops to war during World War II, this man was there, alongside the infantry and reporting the…
A Fellow American Countryside Traveler
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/05Jul17-Ernie-Pyle-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)I must admit, I feel a kinship with the person we feature today. For he too was a traveler of…
Grinding Teeth Over the Declaration of Independence
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/04Jul17-Independence-Day-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Thomas Jefferson helped write the Declaration of Independence…but he wasn’t happy with the final product. Why was Jefferson grinding his…
The Unplanned Writer of the Declaration of Independence
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/03Jul17-Independence-Day-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Thomas Jefferson took an important role in writing our Declaration of Independence, but most people don’t know he wasn’t even…
The Mount Washington Auto Race
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/30Jun17-Mt-Washington-Auto-Road-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine running the Daytona 500 on a mountain road with steep grades and no guardrails. The cars may not be…
Hairpin Turns and No Guardrails
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/29Jun17-Mt-Washington-Auto-Road-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a mountain road with hairpin curves, no guardrails and an average grade of 12%. That makes it one of…
The Mountain Road
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/28Jun17-Mt-Washington-Auto-Road-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was big news when this mountain road opened…not because it linked two cities, but rather because it linked tourists…
A Ticket To Get Into Church
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/27Jun17-Selma-Church-5.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Did you ever think you might need a ticket to get into your church? It happens here, but that’s a…
A Bridge In American History
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/26Jun17-Selma-Church-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today you can drive over this bridge and perhaps never know its important place in American history. But today we…
Find the Right To Vote Too Difficult
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/23Jun17-Selma-Church-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many of us take the right to vote for granted. It may be something we do when there is an…
Skipping School for Something Far More Important
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/22Jun17-Selma-Church-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most parents would not wanting their children skipping school. But in this case, there was something far more important –…
One of the Most Famous Churches in the Nation
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/21Jun17-Selma-Church-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It’s one of the most famous churches in the nation – a place that is about more than just a…
Going to Where the Need Is
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/20Jun17-Eleos-Coffee-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)For Rich Casebolt it’s always been about going to where the need is, not waiting for the need to come…
Coffee That Helps Fill a Need
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/19Jun17-Eleos-Coffee-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A lot of people enjoy a good cup of coffee every morning, but here it was hard to find such…
An Unbelievable Story
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/16Jun17-Missouri-State-Prison-5.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It’s a story that will probably make you mad, make you laugh and shake your head AND a story you’ll…
Prison Warden: Balancing Act
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/15Jun17-Missouri-State-Prison-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a job that can be a real balancing act. A place where you have to manage the best and…
