Category: Massachusetts
The Springfield Armory
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/06Feb25-Springfield-Armory-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Along the Connecticut River in the city of Springfield, Massachusetts you’ll find a series of buildings that for nearly two…
Not Quite a Pipe Organ
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/05Feb25-Springfield-Armory-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In Springfield, Massachusetts you’ll find a site that resembles a large pipe organ. In fact, that is part of it’s…
Making Our Own Weapons
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/04Feb25-Springfield-Armory-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the colonies declared there independence from England, they had to fight a war using guns mostly made in other…
The First Tourist to Where the American Revolution Began
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/17Jan25-Munroe-Tavern-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Thousands of tourists come to Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts every year to see the place where the American Revolution began. …
The Munroe Tavern
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/16Jan25-Munroe-Tavern-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In Lexington, Massachusetts you’ll find an old tavern with quite a story connected to the first shots of the American…
The Spot Where The Fight for Independence Began
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/15Jan25-Lexington-Green-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The United States proclaimed its independence on July 4, 1776. It witnessed its first deaths in the fight for freedom…
A Tavern Older Than the Country
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/14Jan25-Lexington-Green-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Next to the historic green in Lexington, Massachusetts, you’ll find a tavern that is a few decades older than this…
The A.D. Makepeace Farm
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/27Nov23-AD-Makepeace-Cranberry-Farm-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s hard to imagine a farm growing a crop from vines that are over a century old. But that’s exactly…
Flooding the Fields
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/24Nov23-AD-Makepeace-Cranberry-Farm-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most farmers want to avoid a flood that drenches their crops. Here, it’s just part of the process to keep…
A Place Once Known for Mining Iron
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/23Nov23-AD-Makepeace-Cranberry-Farm-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s hard to image that a place once known for mining iron would become an area that later was recognized…
The First Farmers in America
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/22Nov23-Lewis-Clark-Sheheke.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They were the first farmers in America…growing the crops, fruits and vegetables to sustain their tribe as well as some…
The Mayflower’s Landing Spot
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/11/25Nov22-Mayflower-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we associate the Pilgrims with the town of Plymouth, Massachusetts. However, the landing spot was a bit accidental…
Pilgrims in Search of a Ship
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/11/24Nov22-Mayflower-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It just happened to be a ship that was available to sail, but the ship that was chosen is still…
The First Thanksgiving
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/11/26Nov21-Plymouth-Plantation.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We associate the first Thanksgiving with the Native American and Pilgrims living in Plymouth Colony. However, we know very little…
Rock Hunting
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/11/25Nov21-Plymouth-Rock.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Each Thanksgiving we are likely to remember the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth Rock. But is that rock really the…
Fact & Fiction of Paul Revere’s Ride
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/02Jul21-Paul-Revere-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Listen, my children, and you shall hear…Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere. It’s the beginning to that famous Longfellow…
The Famous American Revolutionary War Dentist
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/01Jul21-Paul-Revere-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He’s probably the most famous dentist in the American Revolutionary War. You might not know he cleaned teeth, but you…
The Renter Who Became Famous
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/02/16Feb21-Longfellow-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)George Washington is the father of the nation, but it’s this man’s name that is on the national historic site…
Raising An Army at Harvard
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/02/15Feb21-Longfellow-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today Harvard is recognized as one of the top universities in the world. In 1775, it became the home of…
What Happened to the Loyalists?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/02/12Feb21-Longfellow-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the American revolution began, there were many living in the colonies that remained loyal to the king. In many…
