The Scenic Route: Recent Episodes
Andrew McCrea
Now you can take a longer, more leisurely trip through the American Countryside with our long-form podcast. Andrew McCrea brings you some of the most interesting stories you’ve never heard about the people, places, and events that have shaped America.
No matter our age, we all have a fascination with Santa’s journey of delivering gifts around the world. Take a trip to North Pole, Alaska...
Barrow, Alaska is the northernmost town in the United States. It’s population is mostly native Alaskans. Centuries-old traditions still influence life. On this Scenic Route, Andrew...
American Countryside Producer and Editor Tom Brand faced multiple heart attacks in the summer of 2013 that not only affected his life, but left him...
Beginning in 1942, Navajo men began using their native language to send coded messages in combat during World War II. The role they played in...
In central Australia you will find Ayer’s Rock…the iconic red monolith that’s the country’s well-known landmark. Just 60 miles east of that famous site, you’ll...
If you were old enough to remember September 11th, 2001, you know exactly where you were when you heard the news of the terrorist attacks...
Phyllis Hall was a nurse at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, and she was on duty on November 22, 1963, the day JFK was assassinated. Her...
Pierce Allman was working as a young man at a Dallas radio station in November 1963. He was only feet away from President Kennedy when...
Carl Ben Eielson grew up in North Dakota, but his aviation career took him much further north than that. The latest edition of The Scenic...
On this edition of The Scenic Route, Andrew talks to Paula Neuman Gris, who was just three years old when her family was broken up...
You may think you know all there is to know about the JFK assassination. But there was one man wounded that day who you’ve probably...
Before the USO was sending Bob Hope overseas, a little-known organization went to the war front to support soldiers in the Civil War. John Wega...
As America celebrates the anniversary of its founding, it also celebrates the 150th anniversary of one of its most important battles — the Civil War...
Would you believe there’s a man who helped save the world from nuclear holocaust, and you don’t even know his name? Andrew McCrea has his...
You’ve heard of marriages arranged because the bride and groom have certain cherished last names? How about marriages arranged based on a bride’s first name?...
America’s lawmen have a special place in our hearts — and a special place in Hollywood. On the latest Scenic Route, Andrew McCrea checks in...
They’re not the biggest or the fastest, but some of the most interesting cars in the world are the ones that get our presidents where...
Perhaps more than any other man, Buffalo Bill Cody helped shape the legend of the Wild West. But what’s truth and what’s legend about the...
Serge Kreisberger was a little boy in Romania during the Holocaust, but he made it out alive through what he calls “a series of miracles.”...
About 300 people live in Shickley, Nebraska, but that “big little town” has raised more than $2.5 million for community projects in the past decade....
How does a junior high guidance counselor come to be the builder and owner of a full-size Viking ship? And how do the counselor’s children...
In 1963, Eugene Boone was a 24-year-old deputy in Dallas, Texas–the youngest deputy ever hired by the sheriff there. On November 22nd of that year,...