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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…

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Posted in American Countryside Presidents Texas

A Dallas Emergency Room Nurse

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/20Nov13-JFK-Nurse-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)For the next few features we’ll be visiting with Phyllis Hall, nurse at Dallas’ Parkland Hospital.  She was in the…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Civil War

The 150th Annivesary of the Gettysburg Address

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/19Nov13-Gettysburg-150.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Just four months after the Battle of Gettysburg, over 50,000 people came to that town for the dedication of a…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Massachusetts

The Saugus Iron Works

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/18Nov13-Saugus-Iron-Works.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It is a factory that began operation over a century before England’s colonies became the United State of America. We…

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Levee High Pie

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/Blue-Owl-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The flood of 1993 almost washed away this restaurant. The levee saved the building and provided the inspiration behind their…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Missouri

Baking At the Blue Owl

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/Blue-Owl-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)1983 was the best of times and worst of times for Mary. She was going through a divorce, but it’s…

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Posted in American Countryside

The Decatur House

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/13Nov13-Decatur-House.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)This was the first home, other than the White House, built on Lafayette Square.  It is a place rich with…

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Posted in American Countryside New York

The Survivor Tree

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/12Nov13-Survivor-Tree.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)When the twin towers collapsed on September 11th, 2001, emergency responders raced to the scene to save lives.  Interestingly, there…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Connecticut

Mystic Seaport

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/11Nov13-Mystic-Seaport-2013.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Long before the birth of this nation, this seaport was building the ships that would create a stream of commerce…

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The Rendevous Theatre

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/08Nov13-Rendevous-Theatre.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When hunters and trappers would gather once each season, it was often called a rendezvous. In Alaska and the Yukon…

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Posted in American Countryside Washington, DC

Standing Your Ground

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/07Nov13-Octagon-House-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)When the British entered the Washington, D.C. during the War of 1812, they burned many of the government’s buildings, including…

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Posted in American Countryside Washington, DC

The Octagon in Washington, DC

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/06Nov13-Octagon-House-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Everyone knows the Pentagon is in Washington.  But did you know the city is home to an Octagon as well? …

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Oklahoma

The Oklahoma Land Rush

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/05Nov13-Cherokee-Strip.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine a train chugging south out of Kansas with people jumping from the cars all along its route. The reason…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Oklahoma

Getting to FFA Contest

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/04Nov13-Ralph-Drennen.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)An FFA advisor was driving his students to a competition when the bus broke down with twenty eight students and…

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Posted in Blog History Illinois Missouri National Historic Site National Park Service Tourism Travel

6 St. Louis Spots History Lovers Shouldn’t Miss

A lot of visitors to St. Louis may catch a Cardinals game, take in the world-class zoo, or ride to the top of the St….

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Missouri

Daniel Boone Crosses the Mississippi

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/01Nov13-St-Louis-History-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Daniel Boone is one of the most famous American frontiersmen. But when he crossed the Mississippi River, he went to…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Missouri

The History of St. Louis

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/31Oct13-St-Louis-History-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)It’s one of the oldest and largest cities on the Mississippi River. Although some may have heard of names like…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Colorado

The Cyle of a Cesium Atom

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/30Oct13-Atomic-Clock-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)If I said I’d be back in a second, I’d literally be back in 9,192,631,770 cycles of a cesium atom. …

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Colorado

The Most Accurate of Clocks

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/29Oct13-Atomic-Clock-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)For most of human history, the movement of the sun, moon and planets has been used to measure time.  But…

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Posted in American Countryside Georgia

The Great Locomotive Chase

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/28Oct13-Great-Locamotive-Chase.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s called the Great Locomotive Chase – an event that occurred in 1862 when a secret force of Union soldiers…

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