Category: Pennsylvania
The Untouchables
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0129-Eliot-Ness-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They are called the Untouchables. However, you may have not heard their story if not for one year this man…
Fighting Cleveland’s Crime Problem
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0128-Eliot-Ness-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Cleveland was a city dealing with a major crime problem in the 1930s and 40s. The man they brought here…
One Man Determined to Stop Capone
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0127-Eliot-Ness-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the 18th amendment to the US Constitution made alcohol illegal, many began to supply the drink illegally. It was…
The Columbus Chapel
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0105-Columbus-Chapel.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In central Pennsylvania you’ll find a farmstead with quite a story. Some of the artifacts have a tie to a…
Sharing the Farming Story
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/11/21Nov25-Boal-Estate-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This family can trace it’s lineage to a family member who escaped execution by having himself smuggling out of the…
The First Friday Night Lights
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/26Sep25-First-Night-Football-Game-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Friday nights in the fall are a time when many high schools play football games. And of course, today many…
The Lighted Evolution of College Football
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/25Sep25-First-Night-Football-Game-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the 1890s the game of football was just beginning on some college campuses. That was the case in Mansfield,…
Elk County, Pennsylvania
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/16Sep25-Elk-County-Pennsylvania-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you think the state of Pennsylvania mostly looks like Philadelphia and Pittsburg, you should take a trip here. In…
Where Elk Roamed
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/15Sep25-Elk-County-Pennsylvania-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When you think of places were elk roam forests and wilderness areas, you perhaps do not think of this state. …
The American Baseball Museum
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/07/07Aug25-Little-League-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If I mention the town of South Williamsport, Pennsylvania, sports fans will know there is one iconic event that takes…
A Chance For Every Kid to Play Baseball
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/07/06Aug25-Little-League-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we take for granted that just about every young boy or girl in the country could probably sign up…
The Ice Cave
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/07/29Jul25-Ice-Cave-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Since the late 1800s people have been coming to this small, but unusual place on the side of a mountain…
A Geographical Anomaly
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/07/28Jul25-Ice-Cave-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In north central Pennsylvania you’ll find a geological anomaly that is hard to believe. It’s a specific place that grows…
Unhappy with the Declaration of Independence
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/06/04Jul25-Independence-Day-Jefferson-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Thomas Jefferson helped write the Declaration of Independence, but he wasn’t happy with the final product. Why was Jefferson grinding…
Thomas Jefferson’s Unexpected Role
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/06/03Jul25-Independence-Day-Jefferson-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Thomas Jefferson took an important role in writing our declaration of independence, but most people don’t know he wasn’t even…
The Christiana Riot
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/11/21Nov24-Christiana-Riot-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s called the Christiana Riot – a showdown between a slave owner and those harboring his runaway slaves. It led…
Brave Former Slaves
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/11/20Nov24-Christiana-Riot-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the years before the Civil War, many people stood up for the cause of freedom and equality. Some of…
The Johnstown Flood
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/05/03Jun24-Johnstown-Flood-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was an American disaster that was hard to imagine. A giant flood and an immense fire were destroying a…
A Wall of Water
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/05/31May24-Johnstown-Flood-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was a story of miraculous heroism among a story of deep tragedy. A a wall of water cut loose…
