Category: Georgia
The Cannonball House
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/22May18-Cannonball-House-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The city of Macon, Georgia is still a place where you can find elegant plantation mansions…homes of some of the…
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…
Inside the Earth Lodge
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/03/11Apr17-Ocmulgee-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It this country…the U.S. Capitol is the place where laws are made…but 1000 years ago…it was perhaps this earth lodge…
Unique Mounds and Lodges
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/03/10Apr17-Ocmulgee-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most of what we know about this group of people comes from the mounds they built all across the U.S. …
The Methodist Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/06Jun14-Methodist-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)If you do something the same way day after day, you might be said to have a method to your…
The Great Locomotive Chase
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/28Oct13-Great-Locamotive-Chase.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s called the Great Locomotive Chase – an event that occurred in 1862 when a secret force of Union soldiers…
Clark Gable and the Cyclorama
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/16Aug13-Atlanta-Cyclorama-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Many people remember Clark Gable in the movie Gone With the Wind. But have you seen him in his role…
The Bankruptcy of a Circus Benefits a City
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/15Aug13-Atlanta-Cyclorama-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Never was the bankruptcy of a circus so fortuitous to a city. Not only did they pick up what would…
What Started as a Campaign Poster…
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/14Aug13-Atlanta-Cyclorama-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)It began life as a campaign poster, although you would have to have one very large wall to ever hang…
Remembering the Civil War in Atlanta
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/13Aug13-Atlanta-Cyclorama-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)It’s been over a century and a half since the beginning of the U.S. Civil War, yet many Americans are…
Hostage Chuck Scott
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/05/Chuck-Scott-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 960.0KB)There have long been tensions between the U.S. and the middle east, but Chuck Scott believes today’s challenges stem from…
Being Held Prisoner
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/05/Chuck-Scott-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 948.2KB)When the Iranian hostage situation began, most of those Americans held would have told you the conflict would have lasted…
