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American Adventure

Networks
NBC (as its archives name them)
Heard
1955–1956
Episodes
23

(23 Episodes) "American Adventure" The "American Adventure" series is a wonderful drama series depicting important moments in American History. Actors portray these stories so well, that you can very nearly ...smell the fire burning.. or taste the freshly brewed coffee ... or even hear the birds singing above the lakes....

More about it

The American Adventure series (1955-1956) is brought to us by NBC with the cooperation of the University of North Carolina and with Sponsorship Funded by the Ford Foundation. Most importantly, it is brought to us, with the hard work of John Marsden Ehle, Jr., an American writer best known for his fictions set in the Appalachian Mountains of the American South.

**John Marsden Ehle, Jr. (born December 13, 1925): In addition to his writing career, Ehle has been active in a number of social, educational, and anti-poverty projects in the state of North Carolina. From 1963-1964, Ehle served as special assistant to North Carolina Governor Terry Sanford, an appointment Sanford often called his "one man think tank."

Sanford credits Ehle for the idea behind the state-wide initiative The North Carolina Fund (a non-profit organization funded primarily by grants from the Ford Foundation to fight poverty in North Carolina). As an extension of Governor Sanford's focus on education, Ehle was instrumental in the founding of both the North Carolina School of the Arts and The North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, among the first such state-supported high…

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. King with Crown (1793)

    · No. 1 · 29 min

  2. Hearth Fire (TVA - 1935)

    · No. 2 · 29 min

  3. Builders On The River (1932)

    · No. 3 · 29 min

  4. Eddie (Story Of A Poet)

    · No. 5 · 29 min

  5. Grandfather Jefferson

    · No. 6 · 29 min

  6. Grenade

    · No. 7 · 29 min

  7. The Rat On Lincoln Avenue

    · No. 9 · 29 min

  8. Appointment At Fords

    · No. 10 · 28 min

  9. Dial Emergency

    · No. 11 · 29 min

  10. Jonny Appleseed

    · No. 13 · 28 min

  11. The Battle

    · No. 14 · 29 min

  12. The Yankee Loves A Lady

    · No. 15 · 29 min

  13. Federal Lion

    · No. 17 · 26 min

  14. George Washington Carver

    · No. 18 · 24 min

  15. The Zemper Trail

    · No. 19 · 25 min

  16. Thomas Wolfe (And Unsound Door)

    · No. 20 · 25 min

  17. The Story Of Cyrus Fields

    · No. 21 · 24 min

  18. Pierre L'entant (Paint the Big Canvas)

    · No. 22 · 25 min

  19. Joe Palmer (The Free Man)

    · No. 23 · 24 min

  20. John Williams (Runaway Justice)

    · No. 24 · 25 min

  21. The Demagogue

    · No. 25 · 24 min

  22. The Pioneer Call (Eli Liger)

    · No. 26 · 24 min

  23. Ezra Lee (Man Of Iron)

    · No. 27 · 25 min

Where it comes from 1

The archive items its episodes are played from, best first, with each one’s rights as its archive states them. An episode two sets both hold is played from the first.

  1. American Adventure 23 Eps

    Old Time Radio · 23 episodes here · archive.org

    Uploader’s mark: Public Domain Mark 1.0: Marked Public Domain Mark 1.0 by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it.

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