Category: Scenic Route
Now you can take a longer, more leisurely trip through the American Countryside with our long-form podcast. Andrew McCrea brings you some of the most interesting stories you’ve never heard about the people, places, and events that have shaped America.
Scenic Route – Santa Claus House
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/Scenic-Route-Santa-Claus-House.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 13:35 — 9.3MB)No matter our age, we all have a fascination with Santa’s journey of delivering gifts around the world. Take a…
Scenic Route – Barrow, Alaska
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/Scenic-Route-Barrow-Alaska.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 16:24 — 11.3MB)Barrow, Alaska is the northernmost town in the United States. It’s population is mostly native Alaskans. Centuries-old traditions still influence life….
Scenic Route – Tom Brand
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/Scenic-Route-Tom-Brand.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 45:29 — 31.2MB)American Countryside Producer and Editor Tom Brand faced multiple heart attacks in the summer of 2013 that not only affected…
Scenic Route – Navajo Code Talker
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/Navaho-Code-Talker-Roy-Hawthorne.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:01:24 — 42.2MB)Beginning in 1942, Navajo men began using their native language to send coded messages in combat during World War II. …
Scenic Route – The Curtain Springs Station
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/ScenicRoute_CurtinSprings.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 38:13 — 26.2MB)In central Australia you will find Ayer’s Rock…the iconic red monolith that’s the country’s well-known landmark. Just 60 miles east…
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…
Scenic Route: Inside the ER After the JFK Assassination
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/ScenicRoute-016.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 17:07 — 15.7MB)Phyllis Hall was a nurse at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, and she was on duty on November 22, 1963, the…
Scenic Route – Conversation with an Assassin
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/ScenicRoute-015.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 21:28 — 14.7MB)Pierce Allman was working as a young man at a Dallas radio station in November 1963. He was only feet…
Scenic Route 14: The North Dakota Boy and the Top of the World
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/ScenicRoute-014.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 9:35 — 6.6MB)Carl Ben Eielson grew up in North Dakota, but his aviation career took him much further north than that. The…
Scenic Route 13: Paula Neuman Gris
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/ScenicRoute-013c.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 39:10 — 26.9MB)On this edition of The Scenic Route, Andrew talks to Paula Neuman Gris, who was just three years old when…
Scenic Route: Witness to an Assassination
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/ScenicRoute-012.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 19:52 — 18.2MB)You may think you know all there is to know about the JFK assassination. But there was one man wounded…
Scenic Route: Supporting the Troops Before the USO
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/ScenicRoute-011.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 14:09 — 13.0MB)Before the USO was sending Bob Hope overseas, a little-known organization went to the war front to support soldiers in…
Scenic Route: Gettysburg Remembered
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/ScenicRoute-010.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 16:25 — 15.0MB)As America celebrates the anniversary of its founding, it also celebrates the 150th anniversary of one of its most important…
Scenic Route – Saving the World and Not Getting Credit
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/06/ScenicRoute-009.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 5:02 — 1.2MB)Would you believe there’s a man who helped save the world from nuclear holocaust, and you don’t even know his…
Scenic Route – Rippa Villa Plantation
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/06/ScenicRoute-008.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 11:05 — 2.5MB)You’ve heard of marriages arranged because the bride and groom have certain cherished last names? How about marriages arranged based…
Scenic Route – Sheriff Buford Pusser
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/05/ScenicRoute-007.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 11:59 — 2.7MB)America’s lawmen have a special place in our hearts — and a special place in Hollywood. On the latest Scenic…
Scenic Route – Presidential Limousines
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/05/ScenicRoute-006.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 7:58 — 1.8MB)They’re not the biggest or the fastest, but some of the most interesting cars in the world are the ones…
Scenic Route – Buffalo Bill & the Legend of the Wild West
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/ScenicRoute-005.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 13:19 — 3.0MB)Perhaps more than any other man, Buffalo Bill Cody helped shape the legend of the Wild West. But what’s truth…
Scenic Route – A Series of Miracles
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/ScenicRoute-004.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 48:21 — 22.1MB)Serge Kreisberger was a little boy in Romania during the Holocaust, but he made it out alive through what he…
Scenic Route – Big Little Town
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/ScenicRoute-003.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 13:35 — 6.2MB)About 300 people live in Shickley, Nebraska, but that “big little town” has raised more than $2.5 million for community…
