Listen to This Episode! Travel to North Bend, Ohio, the home of one president and the birthplace of another, his grandson! Benjamin Harrison, our fourth Ohio President, and the only grandson of a president to join granddad (and serve a full term), learn about Benjamin Harrison and his efforts to live up to the familyContinue reading “Season 1, Episode 23-Benjamin Harrison and North Bend”
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Season 1, Episode 22-Grover Cleveland and Caldwell
Listen to This Episode! Grover Cleveland, our 22nd and 24th president, the only to serve non-consecutive terms and our only Garden State President! One of our birthplace commemorations currently working on improving the site, with a planned visitors center out back! The Grover Cleveland Birthplace Memorial Association. The Grover Cleveland Birthplace from the National ParksContinue reading “Season 1, Episode 22-Grover Cleveland and Caldwell”
Season 1, Episode 20-James Garfield and Moreland Hills
Listen to This Episode! Our third straight Buckeye President, and among the most brilliant, James Garfield, born on the banks of the Cuyahoga! One of the stronger birthplace commemorations (save the weird statue!) and fitting tributes to another of the log cabin Presidents! James Garfield Birth Site Monument from Ohio Traveler. James Garfield Birth SiteContinue reading “Season 1, Episode 20-James Garfield and Moreland Hills”
Season 1, Episode 19-Rutherford Hayes and Delaware (OH)
Listen to This Episode! Rutherfraud? What isn’t a fraud is the birthplace improvements done to Rutherford Birchard Hayes’ birth commemoration in Delaware, Ohio. The only birth site that is now a gas station, today there is a bit more celebration of Hayes’ life and contributions in this lovely town! Rutherford Hayes Birthplace (original commemoration) fromContinue reading “Season 1, Episode 19-Rutherford Hayes and Delaware (OH)”
Season 1, Episode 18-Ulysses Grant and Point Pleasant
Listen to This Episode! U.S. Grant, hero of the Civil War and 18th President of the United States, born on the banks of the Ohio River in Point Pleasant, Ohio! Ulysses was…not great at almost everything he tried…until the Civil War, and from there, leapfrogged into the presidency, and is today ranked towards the bottomContinue reading “Season 1, Episode 18-Ulysses Grant and Point Pleasant”
Season 1, Episode 17-Andrew Johnson and Raleigh
Listen to This Episode! Visit the third and final Tar Heel President, Andrew Johnson, born across the street from today’s North Carolina State Capitol in Raleigh! Johnson is one of our true rags-to-…power presidents, having to work from a young age and never attending a day of school. Learn about his unique rise to theContinue reading “Season 1, Episode 17-Andrew Johnson and Raleigh”
Season 1, Episode 16-Abraham Lincoln and Sinking Spring
Listen to This Episode! Abraham Lincoln, boy of the frontier: the first President born in what was then the West, the wilds of Kentucky at Sinking Spring outside of Hodgenville. Learn about Lincoln’s rough childhood and family life, his struggle for education, his rise in politics, and what happened to his birthplace site! Abraham LincolnContinue reading “Season 1, Episode 16-Abraham Lincoln and Sinking Spring”
Season 1, Episode 15-James Buchanan and Cove Gap
Listen to This Episode! Don’t mind the (Cove) Gap, James Buchanan’s unsettled birthplace on the edge of the American frontier in Pennsylvania. Learn about Buchanan’s unique, rags-to-riches upbringing and his involvement in Pennsylvania and national politics, as well as what happened to his birthplace at Cove Gap! James Buchanan’s Birthplace State Park page. From PennLive’sContinue reading “Season 1, Episode 15-James Buchanan and Cove Gap”
Season 1, Episode 14-Franklin Pierce and Hillsborough
Listen to This Episode! Franklin Pierce, the only New Hampshirite President, the one with the fly-est hair, and the only one who will require Scuba gear to get to the birth site. Listen as we explore the Pierces of Hillsborough, New Hampshire, as well as Franklin’s unique childhood and riding the coattails of his father’sContinue reading “Season 1, Episode 14-Franklin Pierce and Hillsborough”
Season 1, Episode 13-Millard Fillmore and Moravia
Listen to This Episode! Millard? Fillmore? President? Learn about Millard Fillmore’s rough and wild youth in Western New York, and his rise in the NY political environs of the first half of the 1800s. Millard may be nobody’s idea of a “great” president, but his story rivals Abe Lincoln’s for his hard work and determination.Continue reading “Season 1, Episode 13-Millard Fillmore and Moravia”
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