Category: North Carolina
Inside Andy’s Sherriff Office
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/07Jul23-Mayberry-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most of us have at least seen an episode or two of the Andy Griffith Show. A good chunk of…
Patrolling Like Andy & Barney
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/06Jul23-Mayberry-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you build your own police car, take to the roads and turn on the siren, well, you might quickly…
Mt. Airy, North Carolina
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/05Jul23-Mayberry-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Mt. Airy, North Carolina is a town of about 10,000 people. If you type the name of the town into…
Evidence of a Hole in the Ground
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/11May23-North-Carolina-Nuclear-Bomb-Field-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Brent Tyndall has people pulling in his driveway just about every weekend. They are looking for something, but can’t quite…
A Thermonuclear Weapon in the Mud
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/10May23-North-Carolina-Nuclear-Bomb-Field-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)At the time it was just speculation, but today we know that in early 1961, there was a thermonuclear weapon…
Where the B-52 Crashed
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/09May23-North-Carolina-Nuclear-Bomb-Field-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In early 1961 a B52 crashed in a farm field about 12 miles north of Goldsboro, North Carolina. The tragic…
The Presidential Caravan
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/03May23-Ray-Starling-Air-Force-One-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There’s a part of many of us that wishes we could take to the open road, with no one around…
Writing a Very Special Letter
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/02May23-Ray-Starling-Air-Force-One-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Did you ever go back and talk or write to a teacher to tell them the difference they made in…
Dinner with Mom or A Flight on…
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/01May23-Ray-Starling-Air-Force-One-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We often cherish time spent with our mom. That was the case for Ray Starling. But in this case, dinner…
Sneaking Into the Oval Office
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/28Apr23-Ray-Starlig-NAFTA.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In April 2017, there was debate in the country about exiting the NAFTA trade deal with Canada and Mexico that…
Dewberry Tulip Farm
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/11Apr23-Dewbery-Tulip-Farm-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine a crop that might take you twelve days, with twelve people to get planted. This family has come up…
From Tobacco to…
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/10Apr23-Dewbery-Tulip-Farm-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This old tobacco farm has been in the Johnson family for about a century now. The tobacco is long gone,…
A First White House Meeting
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/01/20Jan22-Ray-Starling-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was Ray’s first time in the Oval Office and he did not want to mess up his presentation. He…
An Ag Advisor in the White House
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/01/19Jan22-Ray-Starling-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)During the middle of the farm crisis in the 1980s, those in agriculture lobbied to have a full time staff…
When the White House Calls
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/01/18Jan22-Ray-Starling-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Ray was expecting a call from a guy trying to sell him some firewood. When an unknown number popped up…
The Amazing Invention with Little Attention
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/24Mar21-Wright-Brothers-Kittyhawk-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was an event so important that it had to be captured on film…yet when it actually occurred, few would…
Preparing for Flight
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/23Mar21-Wright-Brothers-Kittyhawk-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s one of those locations that when you say the name of the place, there’s just one event that pops…
The Lost Colony of Roanoke
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/07/24Jul20-Fort-Raleigh-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s known as the lost colony of Roanoke…a settlement of English that vanished between 1587 and 1590 in what is…
The Voyage That Didn’t Reach Its Destination
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/07/23Jul20-Fort-Raleigh-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1587 three ships set sail from England bound for Chesapeake Bay. The voyage wouldn’t make that destination though…and the…
Fort Raleigh
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/07/22Jul20-Fort-Raleigh-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Over 300 years before the Wright Brothers would make there first flight at nearby Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Europeans landed…
