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New Philadelphia
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/18Oct13-New-Philadelphia.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today it is difficult to find much of the town of New Philadelphia, Illinois. However, the town’s place in the…
The Thing
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/17Oct13-Spy-Museum-The-Thing.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)It’s often referred to as simply, “The Thing.” That “thing” was a piece of equipment used to acquire secrets from…
Five Places to Find Columbus in the New World Today
In Fourteen Hundred and Ninety Two, Columbus sailed the Ocean Blue. And ever since, people have been building monuments to him. In fact, one Internet…
The Spy Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/16Oct13-Spy-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)What’s it take to become a word class spy? The answers and the job description may just surprise you. Today…
A Veteran of the CIA
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/15Oct13-Spy-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Today we spent time with a veteran of the CIA. In fact, he spent over two decades in clandestine operations…
Columbus’ Return in 1493
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/14Oct13-St-Crois-Salt-River-Bay-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Columbus reached the Americas in 1492. He returned to Spain and put together a much larger party of ships and…
In Fourteen Hundred and Ninety Two…
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/11Oct13-St-Crois-Salt-River-Bay-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may remember that Columbus sailed the ocean blue in fourteen hundred and ninety-two. But what else do you know…
1500 Years Before Christopher Columbus
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/10Oct13-St-Crois-Salt-River-Bay-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Today we head to the easternmost point in United States territory. It’s a place that was inhabited for over 1500…
Standing Watch
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/09Oct13-San-Juan-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This impressive fort has stood watch over the Atlantic for nearly 400 years. For some of those sentry’s who scanned…
Six D.C. Sites to Visit During a Government Shutdown
I was just in the nation’s capital gathering audio for our daily broadcasts. For tourists, the government shutdown means many of the sites they planned…
A Caribbean Getaway
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/08Oct13-San-Juan-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you are looking for a fun and relatively inexpensive Caribbean getaway, without leaving the U.S., you might consider heading…
Alibates Flint
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/07Oct13-Alibates-Flint.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It’s called Alibates flint, and this spot in the panhandle of Texas is the only place in the world where…
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…
An Unexpected Surprise
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/04Oct13-Pierce-Allman-JFK-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)All this week we’ve heard from Pierce Allman, a Dallas broadcaster who witnessed and reported on the JFK assassination. The…
First Hand Accounts of the Kennedy Assassination
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/03Oct13-Pierce-Allman-JFK-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)One of the first broadcasters on the air with news of the shooting of President Kennedy was Pierce Allman. He…
A Reporter on the Biggest Story of All
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/02Oct13-Pierce-Allman-JFK-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Pierce Allman was a broadcaster and manager at WFFA, a radio and television station in Dallas. In the fall of…
On the Scene of An Assassination
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/01Oct13-Pierce-Allman-JFK-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1963, Pierce Allman was manager of programming and production for WFAA radio in Dallas, Texas. When President Kennedy came…
Five Texas Hotspots for JFK History Buffs
Today’s Dallas is a busy, growing city. But 50 years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, it remains inextricably linked to a tragic…
Hiding Cash in a Unique Way
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/30Sep13-Waldo-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When Union and Confederate sympathizers threatened to take this banker’s money, he did what any logical person would do–he dressed…
Where’s Waldo?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/27Sep13-Waldo-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A few years ago, you may remember the popular Where’s Waldo books that had kids searching for a man hidden…
