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A Man of Legend
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/25May15-Harpers-Ferry-2015-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)He is a man of legend…a man whose story may be larger than life…a renegade who history now looks upon…
One of the Busiest and Important Towns in the Nation
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/22May15-Harpers-Ferry-2015-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Today the place is almost a ghost town. But over a century ago it was one of the busiest and…
How a Sixteen Year Old Saved the United States
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/21May15-Wheeling-Revolution-2015-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Where did the American Revolution end? Why Wheeling, West Virginia of course–when a sixteen year old girl saved the newly…
A String A Battles on the Western Frontier
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/20May15-Wheeling-Revolution-2015-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It’s a chapter of the American Revolution that few know today–a string of battles fought on what was then the…
Facing What Seemed to be a Lose-Lose Decision
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/19May15-Wheeling-Legends-2015.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Samuel McCulluck faced what seemed to be a lose-lose decision. Either surrender to his enemy and face certain death…or plunge…
One Bookend of the Lincoln Presidency
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/07May15-Abraham-Lincoln-Inauguration.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)On the surface, this old train station in Springfield, Illinois may not seem to be that important. However, when you…
150 Years Since the Assassination of Lincoln
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/04/14Apr15-Fords-Theater.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s been 150 years since John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln. Today, we go to the site of the…
Santa Anna’s Leg
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/04/13Apr15-Santa-Annas-Leg.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)It’s been over 150 years since Illinois soldiers faced Santa Ana in the Mexican War. However traces of that battle…
An Unusual Field Trip
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/10Apr15-Ernest-Muncreif.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many schools take field trips this time of the year. They are usually a fun event for students to get…
The Surrender of Lee at Appomattox
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/09Apr15-Appamatox-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)After four years of Civil War the conflict had claimed over 630,000 lives. It was time to begin the long…
The Place Where the Final Chapter of the Civil War Began
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/08Apr15-Appamatox-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most Americans know it as the place where the Civil War ended. Although that is not technically true…it is still…
Behind the Life of America’s Most Famous Architect
Ask an American who is the most famous architect in their country’s history and this man’s name is probably at the top of the list….
The Salton Sea
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/24Feb15-Salton-Sea-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s a lake with an elevation of over 200 feet below sea level. It’s also a body of water with…
The Largest Lake In California
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/23Feb15-Salton-Sea-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s the largest lake in California. So large, in fact, it’s called a sea. You couldn’t find this lake on…
President’s Week: William Howard Taft
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/20Feb15-Presidents-Week-5.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)He was the only man to serve as president and chief justice, but most people that visit his home here…
President’s Week: Theodore Roosevelt
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/19Feb15-Presidents-Week-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)To date, no U.S. president has been born in North Dakota…but this commander-in-chief experienced a rebirth there that he said…
President’s Week: John Tyler
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/18Feb15-Presidents-Week-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)This president set the record for having the most children with a total of 15. His second wife was actually…
President’s Week: Millard Fillmore
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/17Feb15-Presidents-Week-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most people want to elect a president who knows a little, if not a lot about how to govern a…
President’s Week: Martin Van Buren
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/16Feb15-Presidents-Week-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This is the man people may have forgot was even President, the man who followed Andrew Jackson…
A Funeral Just Like That
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/13Feb15-New-Mellary-Abbey.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When people began attending funerals here, many had the exact same reaction. They mentioned that when they passed, they wanted…
