Category: New York
Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/06Nov18-Benedict-Arnold-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)If you are a soldier in battle, you usually don’t want to be trapped behind enemy lines. Yet that is…
Known By the Friends Kept
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/05Nov18-Benedict-Arnold-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)There is a cliché that says, “We are known by the friends we keep.” One of the friends of this…
Heroes, Love, and Espionage
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/10/02Nov18-Benedict-Arnold-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It’s a story that involves war heroes, love and espionage. It may sound like a novel, but it was real…
An American War Hero
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/10/01Nov18-Benedict-Arnold-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Today I’ll introduce you to an American war hero – a man who had a great hand in this country’s…
A Story Fitting for Halloween
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/10/31Oct18-Sleepy-Hollow-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It’s a story fitting of Halloween. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and the headless horseman. Today we go to the…
Sleepy Hollow
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/10/30Oct18-Sleepy-Hollow-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Mention the name Sleepy Hollow and our minds quickly jump to tales of a headless horseman. It’s quite a tale…
Children Playing In Graveyards
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/10/29Oct18-Sleepy-Hollow-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)You don’t think of a graveyard as a place where children would play. But here that was the case, and…
The World’s Oldest Pet Cemetery
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/09/02Oct18-Hartsdale-Pet-Cemetery-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Ed Martin Jr. has helped bury dogs, cats, birds, guinea pigs and he’s even heard of a lion cub on…
A Funeral Parlor Like None Other
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/09/01Oct18-Hartsdale-Pet-Cemetery-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Walk into this funeral parlor and it may look like others you’ve seen. But soon you’ll notice some difference that…
British or Revolutionary?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/26Aug16-St-Pauls-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, Lutheran…there are many labels that may be placed on churches. However, during the early years of this…
St. Paul’s Church
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/25Aug16-St-Pauls-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Just outside of New York City proper,http://www.cheapfalconsjerseyssale.com yet well within the urban corridor, there sits a church in the suburb…
The Philipse Manor
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/10/17Oct14-Philipse-Manor.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)When America won her independence, there were thousands of men and women who remained loyal to England during the war….
Over the Falls in a Barrel
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/01Aug14-Niagra-Falls-NY-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Don Lokor is asked many questions about Niagara Falls. He is considered the resident historian of the national landmark. The…
A Visit to Niagra Falls
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/31Jul14-Niagra-Falls-NY-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Before Yellowstone was ever made the first national park, Niagara Falls became the nation’s first state park. The thundering waters…
Presumed Dead For Three Days
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/25Jan14-Fireman-Joe-Torillo-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 Buildings
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/24Jan14-Fireman-Joe-Torillo-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…
Saving the Lives of Rescue Workers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/23Jan14-Fireman-Joe-Torillo-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…
A Ceremony That Would Not Take Place
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/22Jan14-Fireman-Joe-Torillo-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,…
Tragedy and Triumph on 9-11
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/21Jan14-Fireman-Joe-Torillo-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we begin a series of programs with New York City firefighter, Joe Torrillo, as he shares his story of…
Scenic Route: Inside the World Trade Center
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/01/ScenicRoute_JoeCarillo.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 23:29 — 16.1MB)If you were old enough to remember September 11th, 2001, you know exactly where you were when you heard the…
