Category: Pennsylvania
The Organization That Grew to the YMCA
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/07/02Aug18-Gettysburg-Christian-Commission-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When a soldier heads to battle, there are many organizations that volunteer their services to help he or she and…
The Adamantine Guard
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/07/01Aug18-Adamantine-Guard.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It was called the Adamantine Guard…a military unit formed in one Pennsylvania County with over a century of service to…
A Bell That Took Time to Become Famous
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/04Jul18-Liberty-Bell.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)July 4th, 1776. It’s Indpendence Day in the United States and one of the symbols of our freedom is the…
When George Washington Surrendered
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/03Jul18-Fort-Necessity-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was the only time General Washington ever surrendered an army…and that just may have everything to do with July…
Shaping Independence
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/02Jul18-Fort-Necessity-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s a war most American know little about, yet it’s a conflict that shaped America’s war for Independence just a…
One of the First Oil Boom Towns
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/13Jun18-Drake-Oil-Well-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In a moment we head to oil country in the U.S…but this isn’t a trip to Oklahoma, Texas or even…
Sorting the Facts and Myths of Edgar Allen Poe
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/03/06Apr18-Edgar-Allen-Poe-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Edgar Allen Poe could write some amazing fictional tales…but perhaps some of most intriguing fiction was that he told about…
One of the Nation’s Most Famous Writers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/03/05Apr18-Edgar-Allen-Poe-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)He is one of the nation’s most famous writers and although he bounced from city to city, it was here…
Christmas Day 1776
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/11/25Dec17-Washington-Crossing-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)It was Christmas Day 1776…the first Christmas for the young United States of America. If not for the bravery of…
A Pivotol Point in the Revolution
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/11/22Dec17-Washington-Crossing-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)On Christmas Eve 1776…a general and his men did not prepare for a meal or gift giving…but rather they prepared…
Crossing An Icy River on Christmas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/11/21Dec17-Washington-Crossing-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)It’s one of the most famous battles of the American Revolution…and it all began with the crossing of an icy…
Grinding Teeth Over the Declaration of Independence
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/04Jul17-Independence-Day-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Thomas Jefferson helped write the Declaration of Independence…but he wasn’t happy with the final product. Why was Jefferson grinding his…
The Unplanned Writer of the Declaration of Independence
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/03Jul17-Independence-Day-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Thomas Jefferson took an important role in writing our Declaration of Independence, but most people don’t know he wasn’t even…
Picket’s Charge
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/05Jul16-Gettysburg-George-Pickett.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Every Independence Day we remember those who have fought for our freedom. One well known battlefield still draws thousands of…
John Burns & The Battle at Gettysburg
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/04Jul16-Gettysburg-John-Burns.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine hitting the age to retire and then deciding to volunteer for the army. That is what John Burns did. …
The Life of Punxsutawney Phil
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/02Feb15-Groundhog-Day.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)He is by far the oldest and wisest groundhog in the nation, and every February 2, you can be assured…
The Christiana Riot
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/10/23Oct14-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 to…
The Bravery of Former Slaves
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/10/22Oct14-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 those…
A Strange Meeting
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/09/26Sep14-Brandywine-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was a strange meeting – a British general requested the assistance of an American signer of the Declaration of…
A Battle Lost But An Army Respected
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/09/25Sep14-Brandywine-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was a place the new American nation lost, yet won – a battlefield where they stood ground for six consecutive…
