Category: North Carolina
A Department Store Owner
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/02/17Feb16-Greensboro-Lunch-Counter-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:03 — 2.1MB)Earl Jones was a lawyer and state legislator who just happened to have an office across the street from a…
At This Lunch Counter
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/02/16Feb16-Greensboro-Lunch-Counter-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We don’t think much these days about going into any restaurant and ordering a meal. But in 1960, some were…
A Quaker Community Determined to End Slavery
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/15Jan16-Mendenhall-Plantation-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In the heart of the south, there was one Quaker community determined to not only bring an end to slavery,…
The Mendenhall Plantation
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/14Jan16-Mendenhall-Plantation-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)We might imagine that prior to the Civil War, most large farming operations in the south used slave labor. Today,…
When the Road Gets Moved
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/13Jan16-Mendenhall-Plantation-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Major highways can be a very important way to get people to your business. What do you do when your…
Overcoming Challenges 50 Years Later
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/23Oct15-NFA-History-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Next week at the National FFA Convention, there will be a recognition of the 50th anniversary of two groups joining…
Separate and Not Equal
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/22Oct15-NFA-History-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Separate but equal was almost always separate and NOT equal. That was the case in agricultural education as well with…
A Lost Colony
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/21May13-RoanokeFtRiley.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s known as the lost colony of Roanoke–a settlement of English that vanished between 1587 and 1590 in what is…
A Colony Lost
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/05/Roanoke-Ft-Raleigh-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 941.4KB)It’s known as the lost colony of Roanoke–a settlement of English that vanished between 1587 and 1590 in what is…
The Colony of Roanoke
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/05/Roanoke-Ft-Raleigh-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 941.4KB)In 1587 three ships set sail from England bound for Chesapeake Bay. The voyage wouldn’t make that destination though, and…
