Category: Washington
The Large City of the Pacific Northwest
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/08/21Aug17-Port-Townsend-Washington-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We’ve all heard of Seattle, Washington, but in the mid 1800s, it was this town that was to be the…
The City That Was Last
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/07/18Jul17-Cle-Elum-Washington-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This is a city that was last. And in this case, being last isn’t all that bad, for what came…
The Grandest of Homes in the Most Remote of Towns
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/07/17Jul17-Cle-Elum-Washington-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was the grandest of homes in one of the most remote towns in America. But there’s a good reason…
An Unusual Town Name
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/14Jul17-Cle-Elum-Washington-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s one of the more unusual town names in the nation and it has an equally interesting history to boot. …
The Very Last Round of the Vietnam War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/03/31Mar17-USS-Turner-Joy-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Many of you listening to our broadcasts lived through the Vietnam War. No doubt, some of you fought in that…
Keeping Fishermen at Bay
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/03/30Mar17-USS-Turner-Joy-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Why would a small fishing boat try to stand in the path of a U.S. Navy Destroyer. This sailor knew…
A Bigger and Badder Name
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/03/29Mar17-USS-Turner-Joy-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes you’ll looking for a name that will intimidate your enemy. Therein was the problem. The latest ship due to…
The Story Behind the Namesake of a Ship
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/03/28Mar17-USS-Turner-Joy-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many ships, both military and otherwise are named for a person or place. Often the story behind those namesakes it…
Steptoe & Custer
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/23Sep16-Fort-Walla-Walla-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We’ve all heard of General Custer and the battle at the Little Bighorn, but you’ve most likely never heard of…
The Army Hostess of Walla Walla
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/22Sep16-Fort-Walla-Walla-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When James Payne was told of an elderly lady who wanted to donate items to his museum, he headed to…
Campbell’s Resort
There are lake resorts all across this nation…but it’s not everyday that you encounter a family owned operation that has been in business for over…
A Century Old Vacation Spot
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/27May16-Campbells-Resort-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In an age of hotel chains boasting hundreds of locations, it is still nice to find some lodgings with the…
The Incident at Whitman Mission
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/02/18Mar16-Walla-Walla-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)By the end of 1847, the Cayuse Tribe had lost half of their members due to a measles outbreak. The…
The Measles Outbreak of 1847
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/02/17Mar16-Walla-Walla-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1847 there was a measles outbreak in Oregon country. The disease hit both whites and natives, but the death…
The Whitman’s of Walla Walla
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/02/16Mar16-Walla-Walla-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)As white settlers moved westward, missionaries often moved ahead of them. Their faithful goal was to evangelize to the native…
What’s in a Name? Walla Walla!
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/02/15Mar16-Walla-Walla-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:03 — 2.1MB)It’s one of the most unique city names in the nation: Walla Walla, Washington. So what’s behind the name?
The Colville Indian Reservation
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/26Jun15-Colville-Indian-Reservation-2015.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The name of their current tribal home is not an ancestral name, but rather the name of a fort where…
A Trip Off the Beaten Path
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/25Jun15-Grand-Coulee-Dam-2015.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…
The Seattle Underground
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/25Feb14-Seattle-Underground.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most of the time people would consider a raging fire sweeping through the heart of downtown to be a very…
