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Audio Journeys explore Jamestown Settlement Living History site in Jamestown Virginia. On the banks of the James River, 17th century history is told with artifacts and stories. Four hundred years of history across the Commonwealth of Virginia series.

Audio Journeys explore St. John’s Church in Richmond Virginia. St. John’s Church is one of the most important buildings in the American Revolution. It was here that the 2nd Virginia Convention was held in March 1775 with over 100 revolutionaries attending, including George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson. Four hundred years of history across the Commonwealth of Virginia series.

Audio Journeys explore The Life of African Americans in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. The first capital of the colonies, Colonial Williamsburg tells the story in the years preceding and during the American Revolution. Four hundred years of history across the Commonwealth of Virginia series.

Audio Journeys tour Explore Park in the Shenandoah Valley, Roanoke, Virginia. On the Blue Ridge Parkway, Explore Park’s visitors' center is open, the Living History Tour, the subject of this Audio Journey is currently closed. Four hundred years of history across the Commonwealth of Virginia series.

Audio Journeys explore Nevada Historical Society Museum, Reno Nevada. We discover 15,000 years of Nevada History.

Audio Journeys explore Mammoth Cave National Park, Louisville, Kentucky. Mammoth Cave is the world’s longest and most diverse cave system with over 350 surveyed miles. This is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Music by Jason Serfling.

Audio Journeys explore Luther Burbank Home and Gardens in Santa Rosa California. It was here that the famous horticulturalist Burbank developed most of his 800 varieties of vegetables, flowers and trees.

Audio Journeys explore Pamunkey Indian Museum in King William, Virginia with basket weaver and curator, Joyce Palemoon Krigsvold. Pamunkey Indians now number one hundred people, of a once very large and powerful tribe on the east coast of USA since the Ice Age. Four hundred years of history across the Commonwealth of Virginia series.

Rochester New York was a major stop over on the Underground Railroad, a system of people and safe-haven houses that assisted enslaved African Americans escaping to freedom. We tour the Circle of Hope with Aquaba Tours.

Audio Journeys explores the (disputed) headwaters of the Mississippi River with park rangers. A trail takes us to a spring coming out of the ground in the Minnesota mountains. The spring forms a pool before gliding from the rocks to become the mighty Mississippi River, most people believe. Itasca is a derivative of two Greek words that mean "true" and "source".

Oglala Sioux elder, Johnson Holy Rock speaks with Patricia Lawrence about the Black Hills of South Dakota and why the tribe will not cash the check the US Federal Government gave them to pay for their sacred mountains. And we speak with Chief Oliver Red Cloud, 85-year-old grandson of Chief Red Cloud, one of the signers of the Fort Laramie Treaty that granted the Black Hills to the Sioux Nation.

Audio Journeys explore Yosemite National Park, California via a tram. Spring is a great time to visit Yosemite, when birds and wildflowers flowers abound. Our tour guide tells us about rock climbers, Miwok natives, the swift flowing Merced River, and other superlatives of Yosemite. One of the oldest parks in the nation, Yosemite was made a national park in 1890, and designated a World Heritage Site in 1984.

Audio Journeys explores the Tamastslikt Cultural Institute in Pendleton, Oregon. This 35,000-square-foot cultural center is a working monument to the past, present, and future of three native tribes of southeastern Oregon. Tamástslikt celebrates the traditions of Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla Tribes. It means turning something over. The Center's education manager is our guide.

A few hours drive from most major USA cities, there is a National Wildlife Refuge. Wildlife Refuges are artificial habitats ment to entice wildlife away from farms and cities. Our tour brings us very close to nature.

St. Croix is the largest of the three Caribbean islands in the US Virgin Islands. We go off the beaten path on horseback and in a boat.

The Mammoth Site of Hot Springs South Dakota announced in 2011 that it now has discovered 60 specimens of prehistoric animals in this unique paleontological site. This is where, more than 26,000 years ago, large Columbian and woolly mammoths were trapped and died in a spring-fed pond. Now we visit the in-situ site. Dr. Larry Agenbroad, founder of the site, is our guide.

Audio Journeys explores the US's first tourist attraction, Niagara Falls, New York. Niagara Falls is one of the most visited natural wonders in the world.

Audio Journeys explores the life of L. Frank Baum, author of some of the world's most beloved children's books, including The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Baum was born near Syracuse, New York, in 1856. We meet Baum historian Kathleen De Scenna at Ste. Marie Among the Iroquois on Onondaga Lake near Syracuse. She considers Baum to be a visionary.

Not an actual train, in the mid-1800's, the Underground Railroad transported and protected escaping enslaved Africans through a network of safe houses and places, on their way to freedom in the North.

Patricia Lawrence is riding in the back of a Photo Safari truck at the San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park.These trucks are one of several ways visitors can get up close to some of the most endangered animals in the world. Most of the animals that live in the Wild Animal Park represent the last individuals of their species anywhere on earth.