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One Amazing Vantage Point

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/02/07Apr16-Docville-Farms-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s only five stories tall, but it might as well be a skyscraper when you consider the view you get…

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Docville Farms

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/02/06Apr16-Docville-Farms-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s called Docville Farms, a working farm that is really just a portion of the vast acreage owned by one…

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New Orleans’ Plantations

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/02/05Apr16-Docville-Farms-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The plantations east of New Orleans once grew indigo as a cash crop.  Today, some of that land has been…

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The Los Islenos Museum

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/02/10Mar16-St-Bernard-Parish-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine moving from a place of volcanic rock and only two inches of rain per year, to a swamp.  It’s…

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A Place Not on the Way to Anywhere

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/02/09Mar16-St-Bernard-Parish-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)St. Bernard Parish is not on the way to anywhere. And that fact, makes this story one to be told…

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Colonists from the Canaries

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/02/08Mar16-St-Bernard-Parish-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Where did the bulk of the early settlers east of New Orleans originally call home?  The answer will probably surprise…

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Keeping Out the British

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/02/07Mar16-St-Bernard-Parish-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When Spain acquired New Orleans and the Louisiana Territory, they had several challenges.  One of the biggest was finding folks…

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The Streetcars of New Orleans

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/29Apr13-New-Orleans-Streetcar.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In many cities taxies, busses and subways may be the best ways to get around town if you don’t have…

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A Visit to a Cemetery

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/26Apr13-New-Orleans-Cemetery.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)A couple of centuries ago this city had problems with caskets rising with the water and floating down the streets….

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Jean Lafitte

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/09/Zahn-Lafite.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 939.8KB)He’s still regarded as an important figure in New Orleans and American history. Although nearly two centuries have passed, this…

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