Seeking Higher Ground

10/28/2026

American Countryside

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If your home or business flooded, you might seek higher ground. Here, the people didn’t go somewhere else, they just began raising all of their...

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Seeking Higher Ground

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More episodes from "American Countryside"

January 20, 1981

Trigger on the War

The Attack on the Embassy

Getting Into the Lobster Trade

Getting a License at Age 8

Lobstering in Bar Harbor

Painting Highway Lines

The Final Duel

The Ship That Became a Building

The Western End of the Pony Express