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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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? …
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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. …
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…
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…