Category: Washington
The Best Thing to Happen to Seattle
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/15Feb24-Seattle-Washington-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This June 6th fire might have been the best thing that ever happened to Seattle, but it sure made shopping…
Toilets and Chuckholes
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/14Feb24-Seattle-Washington-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today’s topic is toilets and chuckholes. You may have never thought those items to be worthy of a feature until…
Duwamps, Washington Today
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/13Feb24-Seattle-Washington-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)I recently had a chance to visit the city of Duwamps, Washington. You may have never heard that name, but…
Traveling to a Time That’s Passed
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/09Sep19-Winthrop-Washington-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)When you drive into Wintrhop, Washington…it appears time has passed it by…but a closer look will show you that what…
The Town at the End of the Road
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/08/06Sep19-Winthrop-Washington-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)At one time, this town was the end of the road, with the mighty Cascades a barrier to travel further…
A Family Owned Lake Resort
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/04/17Apr19-Campbells-Resort-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)There are lake resorts all across this nation…but it’s not everyday that you encounter a family owned operation that has…
Campbell’s Resort
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/04/16Apr19-Campbells-Resort-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Today we have another installment of our American Countryside Café feature. Although today’s feature is as much about a hotel…
The Largest Hydroelectric Dam in the Nation
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/04/15Apr19-Grand-Coulee-Dam.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It is the largest hydroelectric dam in the nation…spanning just a few feet shy of one mile across and over…
Overnight A U.S. Naval Ship
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/02/22Feb18-Turner-Joy-Night-Tour.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)You can visit a lot of retired Naval ships in the U.S. But here you can get a very rare…
The World Series That Wasn’t the World Series
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/11/14Dec17-Puget-Sound-Navy-Museum-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It was a world series, that wasn’t the real world series. Then again, maybe it was, for the biggest names…
A Well-Known Craft in the US Navy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/11/13Dec17-Puget-Sound-Navy-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It was one American president and his connection to one particular ship that made this a well known craft in…
Living In a Chicken Coop
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/11/12Dec17-Puget-Sound-Navy-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Sometimes cities grow so quickly, it’s hard for people to find a place to live. Here the rush was so…
A Tour of Naval Vessels New and Old
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/11/11Dec17-Puget-Sound-Navy-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you drive to this town, you’re likely to see many vessels, both new and old, from the U.S. Navy. …
The King of Smokejumpers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/09/22Sept17-Smokejumper-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You might be a little crazy to jump out of an airplane and fight a fire. So what does it…
Smokejumpers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/09/21Sept17-Smokejumper-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When a forest fire flames up in a remote area, it may be Dan Ryan’s crew that is called in…
A Career of Jumping Out of Planes and Fighting Fires
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/09/20Sept17-Smokejumper-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine a job that combines jumping out of airplanes and fighting fires. Now imagine you want to make it your…
The Race to Alaska
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/08/25Aug17-Port-Townsend-Washington-Race-to-Alaska.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s called the “Race to Alaska,” a trek for teams from Washington state to Alaska. Winning the contest will earn…
A Kinetic Sculpture Race
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/08/24Aug17-Port-Townsend-Washington-Kinetic-Race.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ve likely never heard of a kinetic sculpture race. Neither had I and I had no idea what it was,…
Protecting A Critical Waterway
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/08/23Aug17-Port-Townsend-Washington-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)These forts were designed to protect a critical waterway in the U.S. While they never had to fire on an…
A Story of Boom and Bust
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/08/22Aug17-Port-Townsend-Washington-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)You could say it’s a story of boom and bust. But while the fortunes of this city did sour over…
