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A Gold Medal Winner
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/10/24Oct18-Dana-Hee-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)She is a gold medal winner – and that’s quite an accomplishment no matter the sport. However, while you may…
A Museum of Slave History
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/10/23Oct18-Freedom-House-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It is called the Freedom House. This free museum is housed in what used to be the headquarters of one…
The Freedom House Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/10/22Oct18-Freedom-House-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)I always enjoy the chance to explore Alexandria, Virginia. It’s a historic city and I recently happened upon a museum…
The Historic Chicago Fire
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/10/17Oct18-Chicago-Fire-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Bells rang the warning. Prison cells were opened to allow inmates to save their own lives ahead of the coming…
A Fast Moving Fire
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/10/16Oct18-Chicago-Fire-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It was a fast moving fire. In fact, it was moving so quickly that people could not find aware to…
The Most Famous Cow in History
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/10/15Oct18-Chicago-Fire-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)No doubt, she is one of the most famous cows in history…but is she really to blame for the problems…
Sheep with a Right of Way
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/10/08Oct18-Ketchum-Sheep-Festival-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Today the number of snow skiers to this valley outnumbers the sheep that graze the summer mountainsides. However, the sheep…
Silver Ran Out and Sheep Moved In
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/09/05Oct18-Ketchum-Sheep-Festival-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When the silver ran out, the sheep moved in…thousands of them in fact. This place became one of the largest…
The Story Behind Custer’s Last Stand
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/09/04Oct18-Custer-Battlefield-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)You’ve probably heard of Custer’s last stand at the Little Bighorn, but do you know the real story of what…
General Custer
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/09/03Oct18-Custer-Battlefield-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)You probably know his name because of his famous last stand. But before that battle in today’s state of Montana,…
Permission to Get Married
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/09/26Sep18-Fort-Hays-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)For an enlisted man at Fort Hays, it wasn’t enough to win a woman’s heart and ask her hand in…
Reasons for Enlisting
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/09/25Sep18-Fort-Hays-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The army certainly needs strong, upstanding young men and women to fill its ranks…but in the late 19th century, the…
A Remaining Fort
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/09/24Sep18-Fort-Hays-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)As Americans moved from east to west, a network of forts sprang up on the high plains to protect travel…
General Washington’s Fight
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/09/17Sep18-British-Barracks-Trenton-New-Jersey-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The battle George Washington waged against this invisible enemy may not seem that glamorous and it certainly doesn’t get much…
Washington’s Delaware River Crossing Destination
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/09/14Sep18-British-Barracks-Trenton-New-Jersey-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When Washington made his famous crossing of the Delaware River on Christmas night 1776, he was of course headed somewhere. …
More Than An Old Military Barracks
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/09/13Sep18-British-Barracks-Trenton-New-Jersey-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)On the surface this place might not seem that important. It’s just an old military barracks. Yet it is the…
A Casino With A Great History
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/08/03Sep18-Golden-Nugget-Casino.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Ask someone to name a casino in Vegas and they can rattle off names like the Belagio, Stratosphere, MGM and…
A Place Called Hildene
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/08/27Aug18-Hildene-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky and lived most of his adult years in Illinois. But where did future generations…
The Son of a President
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/08/24Aug18-Hildene-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Being the son of a U.S. president has its perks. However, it does provide a very high bar of achievement…
Who Was Vice President of the Confederacy?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/08/14Aug18-AH-Stephens.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ve heard of Jefferson Davis, president of the confederacy. But who was his vice president?
