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Parker Brothers

Park Place and Boardwalk are real places in Atlantic City, NJ. They became famous of course, through the game of Monopoly. The company that made…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Podcast Virginia

Cyrus McCormick

For centuries, crops were cut and threshed by hand. That all changed with a young farmer in Virginia. This is the story of a birthday…

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Cowpens Battlefield

Imagine being captured during a war and then forced to fight against the army from which you came. What would you do to get back…

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A Pasture for a Battleground

It was once known as just a giant pasture, but today it’s also the site of an important battle in the Revolutionary War…..

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Grilling the Gobbler

Thanksgiving is the time most Americans talk turkey, but Sheerleen Clausen hopes to change that they’ll think of turkey every day of the year. We…

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Fort Mose

In the marshlands on the northern edge of one of America’s oldest city, you’ll find an amazing story of the struggle for freedom. It’s an…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Florida Podcast

Slaves Escaping to the South

Long before there was an American Civil War waged over the issue of slavery, there was the struggle for slaves to find freedom. The first…

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Saugus Iron Works

It is a factory that began operation over a century before England’s colonies became the United State of America. We go to a place where…

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Election Day 2010

Today we may not think much about the way we vote, unless a close contest causes us to have to recount ballots and determine a…

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Pawnee Bill

It may have seemed this famous western showman had married the wrong woman. After all, his bride was a city girl who didn’t grow up…

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