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The Confederacy on the Move
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/08/13Aug18-Jefferson-Davis-Capture-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)As Union troops advanced on Richmond, Virginia, the president of the Confederacy was on the move. The story of the…
The Story of a Cup of Coffee (and much more…)
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/07/03Aug18-Gettysburg-Christian-Commission-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today someone might drive through Starbucks to get a cup of coffee. During the Civil War…this group instead brought the…
The Organization That Grew to the YMCA
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/07/02Aug18-Gettysburg-Christian-Commission-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When a soldier heads to battle, there are many organizations that volunteer their services to help he or she and…
The Adamantine Guard
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/07/01Aug18-Adamantine-Guard.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It was called the Adamantine Guard…a military unit formed in one Pennsylvania County with over a century of service to…
Inside the Dickson Mounds
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/07/31Jul18-Dixon-Mounds-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Long before there were cities like New York and Chicago…these giant cities were scattered across the nation. Today we try…
An Early City of a Thousand Years Ago
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/07/30Jul18-Dixon-Mounds-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Havana, Illinois is located on the Illinois River but is far from the first city that’s stood here. In fact,…
The Little Red House in Western Kansas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/07/27Jul18-Santa-Fe-Trail-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The first building in this town didn’t begin its life here. In fact i’s route to this city is a…
The Superhighway of the 1800s
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/07/26Jul18-Santa-Fe-Trail-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was a superhighway of the 1800s…a thruway carrying people and cargo from two ends of the country. It may…
Unearthing the Bones of an Unknown Animal
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/07/20Jul18-Mastadon-Park-2018.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine you unearthed the bones of an animal and had little idea of what you found. Now imagine making up…
The History of a Popular Apple
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/07/19Jul18-Red-Delicious-Apples-2018.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)It’s one of the world’s most popular varieties of fruit and we have it because one farmer couldn’t get a…
An Unusual Herd
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/07/18Jul18-Aligator-Farm-2018.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Farms come in many shapes and sizes, raising crops, livestock and many other combinations. But in central Arkansas, there is…
Aboard A Luxury Ship
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/07/17Jul18-Queen-Mary-2018.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Queen Mary II, the largest and most luxurious ship to ever sail, recently left Britain for Ft. Lauderdale. That…
The Story of Daddy Bryson
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/06Jul18-Smokey-Mountain-Railroad-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)His name was Daddy Bryson…and he became one of the best-known train engineers in the Smoky Mountains…not because of his…
Logging to Create A Park
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/05Jul18-Smokey-Mountain-Railroad-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Visitors to Smoky Mountain National Park can wander miles of trails that meander through endless forests. It wasn’t that long…
A Bell That Took Time to Become Famous
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/04Jul18-Liberty-Bell.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)July 4th, 1776. It’s Indpendence Day in the United States and one of the symbols of our freedom is the…
When George Washington Surrendered
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/03Jul18-Fort-Necessity-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was the only time General Washington ever surrendered an army…and that just may have everything to do with July…
Shaping Independence
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/02Jul18-Fort-Necessity-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s a war most American know little about, yet it’s a conflict that shaped America’s war for Independence just a…
Naturalist John Muir
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/29Jun18-John-Muir-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Over a century ago, President Roosevelt was so interested in preserving natural wonders, he traveled all the way to California…
Nature Closer to Home
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/28Jun18-John-Muir-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When this man’s trip to the Amazon fell through, he instead began to travel this country to see all that…
A Place Known As Traveler’s Rest
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/21Jun18-Travelers-Rest-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was a meeting place, a point were Lewis and Clark twice stopped during very important points in their journey…
