It’s a simple memorial.  140 black granite panels containing over 58,000 names.  A simple memorial with deep meaning.  A place where people come to reflect…

This Washington D.C. memorial is just a kid when compared to monuments to Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson that are nearby.  But in it’s short life,…

A few years ago I sat on a park bench and visited with a man about a wall he helped build.  This isn’t any ordinary…

By 1864 the situation the situation in Macon, Georgia was so dire that men in the hospital were asked to leave their beds and defend…

The city of Macon, Georgia is still a place where you can find elegant plantation mansions…homes of some of the wealthiest southerners built in the…

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.  Why is that important…well, the…

For most of human history…the movement of the sun, moon and planets has been used to measure time.  But even the ancients knew that the…

It’s the most accurate clock on earth…and it doesn’t even have hands to tell the time.  It’s an unusual but very important clock… https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/17May18-Atomic-Clock-1.mp3Podcast: Play…

This motel advertisers a “radio in every room.”  Perhaps it doesn’t sound too elegant, but it’s doing a nice business on the same spot for…

There was a time when the movie stars of the day did not fly to their destination, but rather drove their own expensive cars on…