Category: American Countryside
Just Right For the Radio
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/07/24Jul17-George-Lair-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We all listen to music, but we often don’t give much thought to where that music was recorded and the…
A Big Deal in the Music World
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/07/21Jul17-George-Lair-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)You’ve perhaps heard of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, but maybe you don’t know just how big a deal this place is…
A Who’s Who Kind of Cemetery
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/07/20Jul17-Coon-Dog-Cemetery-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Not just anyone gets to buried at Arlington National Cemetery. The same holds true for this little cemetery down some…
A Special Cemetery
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/07/19Jul17-Coon-Dog-Cemetery-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)It looks like many cemeteries in the U.S. There are grave markers and flowers surrounding by many trees. But this…
The City That Was Last
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/07/18Jul17-Cle-Elum-Washington-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This is a city that was last. And in this case, being last isn’t all that bad, for what came…
The Grandest of Homes in the Most Remote of Towns
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/07/17Jul17-Cle-Elum-Washington-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was the grandest of homes in one of the most remote towns in America. But there’s a good reason…
An Unusual Town Name
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/14Jul17-Cle-Elum-Washington-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s one of the more unusual town names in the nation and it has an equally interesting history to boot. …
The Most-Studied First Lady
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/13Jul17-Mary-Todd-Lincoln-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)She may well be the most studied first lady in American history. A highly educated young woman that road the…
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…
