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The Only Noel
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/11/19Dec17-Cave-Caroling.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)At Christmas we may sing, “The First Noel.” In the United States, this is the “Only Noel….”
Raising Corn In A Swamp
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/11/15Dec17-Okefenokee-Swamp-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)You might not think of a swamp as the best place to grow a corn crop. But here is was…
The Denver Sleigh Works
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/12/08Dec17-Denver-Sleigh-Works-2017.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Santa needs a sleigh to make deliveries around the world. This man makes sure he will never run out of…
Thanksgiving at Berkley Plantation
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/11/24Nov17-Thanksgiving-Berkley-Plantation.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may have thought Thanksgiving dates back to the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony in today’s state of Massaschusettes. But, in…
Thanksgiving at Plymouth Rock
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/11/23Nov17-Thanksgiving-Plymouth-Rock.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Each Thanksgiving we are likely to remember the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth Rock. But is that rock really the…
The Plantation of Belle Grove
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/03Nov17-Belle-Grove-Plantation.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Our history books tell us the south had many slave holding plantations in the years leading up to the Civil…
Battle in the Pasture
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/02Nov17-Cowpens-National-Battlefield-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)It was once known as just a giant pasture, but today it’s also the site of an important battle in…
Trying to Get Back to the Right Side of the Battle
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/01Nov17-Cowpens-National-Battlefield-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Imagine being captured during a war and then forced to fight against the army from which you came. What would…
Escaping to the South
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/31Oct17-Fort-Mose-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Long before there was an American Civil War waged over the issue of slavery, there was the struggle for slaves…
A Struggle for Freedom
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/30Oct17-Fort-Mose-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)In the marshlands on the northern edge of one of America’s oldest city, you’ll find an amazing story of the…
A Museum Dedicated to the Circus
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/27Oct17-Circus-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It all began with Albert, Otto, Alfred, Charles, and John. Without their last names, those first names might not mean…
The Married Life at Fort Hays
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/26Oct17-Fort-Hays-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)For an enlisted man at Fort Hays, it wasn’t enough to win a young woman’s heart and ask her hand…
Enlisting in the 19th Century Army
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/25Oct17-Fort-Hays-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Army certainly needs strong, upstanding young men and women to fill its ranks today. But in the late 19th…
A Fort Among the Plains
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/24Oct17-Fort-Hays-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)As Americans moved from east to west, a network of forts sprang up across the high plains to protect travel…
Navigating Salmon in Alaska
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/19Nov17-Alaska-Riverboat-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)To many of us, salmon are just another type of fish we might eat. But to the people of Alaska,…
Aboard An Alaskan Riverboat
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/18Nov17-Alaska-Riverboat-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the city of Fairbanks swelled with the Klondike gold rush in the late 1800s, a fleet of riverboats began…
Riding Alaska’s Riverboat Discovery
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/17Nov17-Alaska-Riverboat-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When you think of a riverboat captain, you probably think of life on the Mississippi, Ohio or Missouri. Instead, we’ll…
Building An Alaskan Highway
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/16Nov17-Jean-Richardson-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It’s a chore for most states to build and repair roads and bridges. Mary Carey fought with her state for…
Headed North To Alaska
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/13Nov09-Jean-Richardson-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Jean Richardson’s mother had always dreamed of moving to Alaska and teaching school there. When she did move north, the…
An Iceberg Expert
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/12Nov09-Alaska-Glaciers-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If there is such a thing as a famous iceberg, it would probably be the chuck of ice that sunk…
