American Countryside

By Andrew McCreaSociety & Culture

American Countryside episodes

May 05 Where Is the Nation’s Gold?
Everyone knows that much of the nation’s gold is at Fort Knox. Or is it? That’s the question many wondered a few decades back…
3 min
May 04 A Heavily Fortified Treasury
You’ve heard of the gold at Fort Knox, and while we can’t go inside the vault, we do know much about the beginnings of that heavily fortified treasury and its contents. We visit with a man who lives just next door so to speak…
3 min
May 01 Moving to the Gold Standard
During the depths of the US Depression in the 1930s, the federal government took several steps to spur the economy. One was forcing the sale of all gold to the federal government…
3 min
April 30 Inside Tuckaleeche Caverns
For centuries people have recognized the natural beauty along the border of Tennessee and North Carolina, but Steven Fananda’s family is hoping visitors want to see what is below ground as well…
3 min
April 29 Results of a Six Year Old’s Wandering
Kids may go exploring when they have nothing better to do…and sometimes those adventures can lead to trouble. But for this family…a wandering six year old built the family business…
3 min
April 28 General Patton’s Secret Code
Sometimes people will use secret codes to keep vital information from slipping into the wrong hands. General Patton used such a code in World War II, just so he had something to drink…
3 min
April 27 History and Distilling
When the U.S. adopted prohibition in 1920, most alcohol production ceased, but when production resumed in the 1930s, it seems some of the old recipes, so to speak, had been lost. This man combines history and a distillery to unlock some unique products…
3 min
April 24 A Large Tree To Mark a Property Boundry
You can still find some old deeds that use a large tree to mark a property boundary. Such was the case for Brent Goodin’s farm. But their Boundary Oak is much more that simply a marker – it’s their business…
3 min
April 23 An American Hero Most People Don’t Know
Thomas Jefferson called this man, “As pure a son of liberty as I have ever known.” So who was the man who garnered such praise? I’ll reveal the name of an American hero most people don’t know…
3 min
April 22 A Memorial To a Man Who Helped Form a Nation
Near the Philadelphia sites that Americans recognize as the birthplace of the country, there is a small memorial to a man most do not know. However, it’s this man, born an ocean away, that perhaps turned the tide of the very revolution that formed a new nation…
3 min