Category: New York
Heroin of the Underground Railroad
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/08/17Aug21-Harriet-Tubman-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)She is one of the best known figures associated with he Underground Railroad. Her courage led her to become well…
Cruelties of Slavery
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/08/16Aug21-Harriet-Tubman-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)At the age of five she was already being leased out by her slave owner to check muskrat traps in…
Silent Hero of the Game
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/08/13Aug21-Cooperstown-Bat-Company-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many of us played the game of baseball as a kid. Perhaps you had a baseball hero…for me it was…
The Man Behind the Bats
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/08/12Aug21-Cooperstown-Bat-Company-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A baseball bat is, of course, a critical part of the game – but did you ever wonder where those…
The Story Behind Baseball Bats
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/08/11Aug21-Cooperstown-Bat-Company-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Major league baseball players are required to use wooden bats – aluminum bats are not allowed. For many decades the…
How Fish Have Changed in the Adirondacks
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/07/03Aug21-The-Wild-Center-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Lots of people come to the Adirondacks of New York state to enjoy the fishing. What may look common place…
Animals of the Adirondacks
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/07/02Aug21-The-Wild-Center-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are plenty of creatures to be found in these woods. Nicole’s job is to help tell their story, and…
The Wild Center
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/07/30Jul21-The-Wild-Center.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There is usually only misery that comes from living through a bad ice storm. That was partly the case with…
The Other End of the Hudson
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/07/29Jul21-Adirondack-Adventures-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may recall that the Hudson River terminates in New York City. Most of us wouldn’t think that swimming in…
Reading the Water
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/07/28Jul21-Adirondack-Adventures-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Lindsey’s job is to “read” the water. It’s an ever-changing task and her ability to read those waters correctly has…
St. Paul’s Church
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/18Jun21-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 Symbol for the Struggle of Freedom
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/17Jun21-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…
Loyal to the King
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/05/31May21-Philips-Manor-Hall-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When America won her independence, there were thousands of men and women who remained loyal to England during the war. …
Did you Know There Was a Declaration of Dependence?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/05/28May21-Philips-Manor-Hall-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Fifty-six men signed the declaration of Independence in July of 1776, but not everyone was pleased with the patriotic document. …
The Woman at the Helm of a Vast Empire
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/05/27May21-Philips-Manor-Hall-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s rare to find a young married lady commanding a ship, crisscrossing the Atlantic multiple times each year. Now imagine…
Bigger Than Life – Ethan Allen
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/04/07Apr21-Fort-Ticonderoga-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes history makes people seem bigger than life. That’s certainly true for a man named Ethan Allen and his band…
We Need Cannons
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/04/06Apr21-Fort-Ticonderoga-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was one of the most important forts of the late 1700s and interestingly, it changed hands twice without a…
Making a Home Every Day of the Year
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/12/25Dec20-Father-Xavier-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Christmas is a time that we usually gather with family. But what is Christmas like when you have no family…
An Encounter in a Homeless Shelter
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/12/24Dec20-Father-Xavier-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Each year around Christmas we might attend a church service, or watch children portray the birth of Jesus. It’s a…
A Kansas Franciscan
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/12/23Dec20-Father-Xavier-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)St. Francis of Assisi lived in Italy during the late 1100s and early 1200s. His religious life of service, forgoing…
