A Podcast about the life and times in Colonial America, presented in a fun and different way. http://www.themidnightridecast.com en-us Copyright 2009 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:00:33 -0400 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:00:33 -0400 http://www.themidnightridecast.com/podcast_feed hosts@themidnightridecast.com.com (Scott and Tom) Scott and Tom A Podcast about colonial American history. A Podcast about the life and times in Colonial America, presented in a fun and different way. Scott and Tom hosts@themidnightridecast.com No colonial,american,america,revolution,revolutionary,war,history,paul,revere,benjamin,ben,franklin,george,washington,abraham,lincoln,sam,samuel,john,adams,thomas,jefferson,historical,monument,monuments,lexingon,1775,1776,independence,independent,declaration,constitution,colony,colonies http://themidnightridecast.com/podcast/43 http://themidnightridecast.com/sites/default/files/podcast/midnight_ride_gettysburg.mp3 Join Tom, Scott, James, and his charming friend, Cinderella, as we journey to historic Gettysburg to discuss the bloodiest battle on American soil. After joking about the statue of  General Buford being waxed and blow-torched,  we visit the newly restored Gettysburg Train station, talkng to locals about the Ground Hog Day type time warp of the town they live in: in Gettysburg it's always early July of 1863!  Then we talk about the spooky Lincoln ghost train, and Robert E. Lee's worst mistake of the war. Finally, we fast-forward to General Dwight D. Eisenhower who retired to Gettysburg as we chat with one of his neighbors, comparing Pickett's Charge up Cemetary Ridge to the D-Day invasion. Technology Sun, 29 Aug 2010 01:27:42 -0400 hosts @ themidnightridecast.com No Please visit this podcast at http://www.themidnightridecast.com/ Join Tom, Scott, James, and his charming friend, Cinderella, as we journey to historic Gettysburg to discuss the bloodiest battle on American soil. After joking about the statue of  General Buford being waxed and blow-torched,  we visit the newly restored Gettysburg Train station, talkng to locals about the Ground Hog Day type time warp of the town they live in: in Gettysburg it's always early July of 1863!  Then we talk about the spooky Lincoln ghost train, and Robert E. Lee's worst mistake of the war. Finally, we fast-forward to General Dwight D. Eisenhower who retired to Gettysburg as we chat with one of his neighbors, comparing Pickett's Charge up Cemetary Ridge to the D-Day invasion. Please visit this podcast at http://www.themidnightridecast.com/ 0:44:27 http://themidnightridecast.com/podcast/42 http://themidnightridecast.com/sites/default/files/podcast/show_14_a_trip_to_old_sturbridge_village.mp3 Join Tom and James as they journey back in timeto Old Sturbridge Village (http://www.osv.org/) a historical theme park set in 1830s Jacksonian America, when most government was handled at the town meeting level. It was a very self-sufficient time when most everything was grown or made close to home. Menlived their entire lives within twenty miles of their birthplace, the farmer down the road might also be a cooper on his day off, andand owning a horse was the equivalent of a Porsche 930 SE. As James and Tom wander the town, they find out what it meant to be a blacksmith, a cooper, what did kids do for fun back then, what sheep are like, and what types of punishment wereinflicted when  they disobeyed the young school Mistress at the one-room schoolhouse? Technology Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:20:45 -0500 hosts @ themidnightridecast.com No Please visit this podcast at http://www.themidnightridecast.com/ Join Tom and James as they journey back in timeto Old Sturbridge Village (http://www.osv.org/) a historical theme park set in 1830s Jacksonian America, when most government was handled at the town meeting level. It was a very self-sufficient time when most everything was grown or made close to home. Menlived their entire lives within twenty miles of their birthplace, the farmer down the road might also be a cooper on his day off, andand owning a horse was the equivalent of a Porsche 930 SE. As James and Tom wander the town, they find out what it meant to be a blacksmith, a cooper, what did kids do for fun back then, what sheep are like, and what types of punishment wereinflicted when  they disobeyed the young school Mistress at the one-room schoolhouse? Please visit this podcast at http://www.themidnightridecast.com/ 0:41:46 http://themidnightridecast.com/podcast/41 http://themidnightridecast.com/sites/default/files/podcast/TMR The Patriot Pastor 1.mp3 Join us as we interview The Patriot Pastor, Garret Lear: http://www.thewelloflivingwater.com and discuss the various separatists that settled Seventeenth-Century New England. Every kid in America knows that in 1620 the Pilgrims stepped off The Mayflower at Plymouth Rock. Then men in black like Captain Miles Standish and William Bradford, clad in buckled hats and shoes sat down with the rest of the Pilgrims to a tasty First Thanksgiving with Squanto and friendly Indians (and not-so-friendly Chief Massasoit).But just who were these hardy souls who braved the tempestuous North Atlantic only to hack out a distant, unknown wildnerness? Was their Mayflower Compact an early Declaration of Independence, placing a direct reliance on God and not King James? Why didn't they stay in civilized Leiden, Holland, where they found tolerance, safety, and modern prosperity? Why were they carrying The Geneva Bible of John Calvin? And who were the Puritans, who came ten years later on The Arabella, with John Winthrop proclaiming, "A City on A Hill"?Listen now and sign up to also access our extra content, containing more conversing with Pastor Lear about the hsitory of the Pilgrims, and the brewing of a friendly "Holy War" between Scott and the Pastor. Technology Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:19:03 -0500 hosts @ themidnightridecast.com No Please visit this podcast at http://www.themidnightridecast.com/ Join us as we interview The Patriot Pastor, Garret Lear: http://www.thewelloflivingwater.com and discuss the various separatists that settled Seventeenth-Century New England. Every kid in America knows that in 1620 the Pilgrims stepped off The Mayflower at Plymouth Rock. Then men in black like Captain Miles Standish and William Bradford, clad in buckled hats and shoes sat down with the rest of the Pilgrims to a tasty First Thanksgiving with Squanto and friendly Indians (and not-so-friendly Chief Massasoit).But just who were these hardy souls who braved the tempestuous North Atlantic only to hack out a distant, unknown wildnerness? Was their Mayflower Compact an early Declaration of Independence, placing a direct reliance on God and not King James? Why didn't they stay in civilized Leiden, Holland, where they found tolerance, safety, and modern prosperity? Why were they carrying The Geneva Bible of John Calvin? And who were the Puritans, who came ten years later on The Arabella, with John Winthrop proclaiming, "A City on A Hill"?Listen now and sign up to also access our extra content, containing more conversing with Pastor Lear about the hsitory of the Pilgrims, and the brewing of a friendly "Holy War" between Scott and the Pastor. Please visit this podcast at http://www.themidnightridecast.com/ 0:50:36 Pastor,lear,mayflower,pilgrim,pilgrims,settlers,cape,cod,new,england,colonial,american,history,era http://themidnightridecast.com/podcast/39 http://themidnightridecast.com/sites/default/files/podcast/show 10 - Salem Halloween.mp3 Grab your shawl and broomstick and fly up with Tom and Scott as we journey to haunted Salem, Massachusetts on All Hallow’s Eve. We start out in a windy Victorian graveyard at the tomb of George Peabody, the well-paid American servant of the Rothschilds’ Bank of England and mentor to J.P. Morgan. Then we head out along the harbor to The House of Seven Gables, mysterious home of the Nathaniel Hawthorne novel featured in an episode of Bewitched. Along Salem Harbor we visit The Old Customs house and discuss the notorious Blue Light Federalists, Salem merchants who traded with the British all during The War of 1812! Later, we become on-the-scene “Ghostbusters,” at the spooky old Hawthorne Hotel, then march to Salem Green and St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, where the current priest tells how his predecessor was nearly hanged during the Salem Witch Trials, and how, later on, the congregation split into Tories and Patriots during The American Revolution. Technology Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:42:13 -0500 hosts @ themidnightridecast.com No Please visit this podcast at http://www.themidnightridecast.com/ Grab your shawl and broomstick and fly up with Tom and Scott as we journey to haunted Salem, Massachusetts on All Hallow’s Eve. We start out in a windy Victorian graveyard at the tomb of George Peabody, the well-paid American servant of the Rothschilds’ Bank of England and mentor to J.P. Morgan. Then we head out along the harbor to The House of Seven Gables, mysterious home of the Nathaniel Hawthorne novel featured in an episode of Bewitched. Along Salem Harbor we visit The Old Customs house and discuss the notorious Blue Light Federalists, Salem merchants who traded with the British all during The War of 1812! Later, we become on-the-scene “Ghostbusters,” at the spooky old Hawthorne Hotel, then march to Salem Green and St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, where the current priest tells how his predecessor was nearly hanged during the Salem Witch Trials, and how, later on, the congregation split into Tories and Patriots during The American Revolution. Please visit this podcast at http://www.themidnightridecast.com/ 0:45:14 Salem,ma,witch,witchcraft,trial,trials,halloween,spooky,spook,cemetary,peabody http://themidnightridecast.com/podcast/29 http://themidnightridecast.com/sites/default/files/podcast/show_9_jfk_historian_0.mp3 “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” With these words, John Fitzgerald Kennedy began his brief one thousand days in office. Yet few will remember that while still a senator, Jack had co-written an excellent work of American History: “Profiles in Courage,” with Ted Sorensen, who later became his speech writer.Join Scott, Tom, and guest co-host, John Horrigan (vocie of the Boston Bruins and New England Patriots alumni) as we ring “The Liberty Bell,” (our special time machine) for the first time, to bring you this incredible interview with President John F. Kennedy. Sit down with us for an extraordinary round-table discussion of the United States Senate in the fateful days of Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John C. Calhoun as “the great triumvirate” debated America’s future. Would there be liberty or slavery? One country or two? Was the union important enough to risk one’s honor, reputation and entire career for? Find out now, in style and wit, as we bring you John F. Kennedy, historian, in this very rare and final slice of Camelot. Technology Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:56:27 -0400 hosts @ themidnightridecast.com No Please visit this podcast at http://www.themidnightridecast.com/ “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” With these words, John Fitzgerald Kennedy began his brief one thousand days in office. Yet few will remember that while still a senator, Jack had co-written an excellent work of American History: “Profiles in Courage,” with Ted Sorensen, who later became his speech writer.Join Scott, Tom, and guest co-host, John Horrigan (vocie of the Boston Bruins and New England Patriots alumni) as we ring “The Liberty Bell,” (our special time machine) for the first time, to bring you this incredible interview with President John F. Kennedy. Sit down with us for an extraordinary round-table discussion of the United States Senate in the fateful days of Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John C. Calhoun as “the great triumvirate” debated America’s future. Would there be liberty or slavery? One country or two? Was the union important enough to risk one’s honor, reputation and entire career for? Find out now, in style and wit, as we bring you John F. Kennedy, historian, in this very rare and final slice of Camelot. Please visit this podcast at http://www.themidnightridecast.com/ 0:51:47