Category: New York
Missing for Three Days After 9/11
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/09/2026-0911-NYC-Fireman-Joe-Tarillo-5.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)For three days Joe Torrillo’s family thought he’d died in the terrorist attack at the World Trade Center. However a…
Surviving Two Building Collapses
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/09/2026-0910-NYC-Fireman-Joe-Tarillo-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Joe Torrillo survived not one building falling on top of him, but two. Against all odds, he made a dash…
An Understanding of Engineering
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/09/2026-0909-NYC-Fireman-Joe-Tarillo-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Amid the tragic loss of life at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, one man saved the lives…
Turning the Wheel to Lower Manhattan
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/09/2026-0908-NYC-Fireman-Joe-Tarillo-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Joe Torrillo was ready to unveil a new action figure for a giant toy company in New York City. However,…
Looking Back 25 Years
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/09/2026-0907-NYC-Fireman-Joe-Tarillo-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we begin a series of programs as we look back 25 years to the events of 9-11. Our guest…
St. Paul’s Church
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/07/2026-0810-St-Pauls-Church-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, Lutheran…there are many labels that may be placed on churches. However, during the early years of this…
A Church That Looks Out of Place
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/07/2026-0807-St-Pauls-Church-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Just outside of New York City proper, yet well within the urban corridor, there sits a church in the suburb…
A Tribute to Sybil Ludington
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/02/2026-0305-Sybil-Ludington-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Along the New York – Connecticut border you’ll find a statue in tribute to Sybil Ludington. Perhaps you’ve not heard…
Another Famous Ride
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/02/2026-0304-Sybil-Ludington-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ve probably heard of Paul Revere’s ride that took place in April of 1775 to warn citizens of soldiers advancing…
Twas the Night Before Christmas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/12/22Dec23-Twas-the-Night-Before-Christmas.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house…they’re words we know well…and words that launched Santa’s image about…
The Night Before Christmas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/23Dec22-Twas-the-Night-Before-Christmas.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We know the words of “’twas the night before Christmas;” words that helped solidify the image of Santa over 200…
An Important Place for Fans of Baseball
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/31May22-Cooperstown-Doubleday-Field.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This town has under 2000 residents, yet it hosts thousands of visitors each year and is arguably the most important…
Exactly How Many Islands?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/28Oct21-Uncle-Sam-Boat-Tour-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They say there are one thousand islands here. Ron knows the exact number though, a number that may surprise the…
A 19th Century Island Getaway
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/27Oct21-Uncle-Sam-Boat-Tour-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today the wealthy might take a jet to a private island in some sunny spot on the globe. Over a…
Touring the Thousand Islands
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/26Oct21-Uncle-Sam-Boat-Tour-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s an area of New York state and Canada known as the Thousand Islands region – a place that draws…
I’ll Wait for the Uncle Sam
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/25Oct21-Uncle-Sam-Boat-Tour-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes the name of a boat is a big deal. Ron’s family had the perfect name for a boat, a…
Hotel of the Hall of Famers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/23Sep21-Otesage-Hotel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Baseball Hall of Fame has an induction ceremony each year and when that event takes place, the baseball greats…
Last of the Mohicans
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/22Sep21-Otesage-Hotel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Perhaps you remember the book and the movie, the Last of the Mohicans. James Fennimore Cooper was the author of…
Fighting for What Was Owed
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/08/19Aug21-Harriet-Tubman-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may soon see her face on our currency. She is a lady who’s story inspires young and old –…
The Illegal Farm Sale, That Wasn’t
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/08/18Aug21-Harriet-Tubman-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the late 1850s there was a sale of a farm that was against the laws of the country. Both…
