Pull Over

Richard L Burr
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Pull Over is a short-form audio series about American small towns you've been driving past your whole life. Each episode runs about three minutes. One narrator, one town, one specific fact or story that earns your attention. No characters, no plot, no cliffhanger. Just a place that's been waiting for someone to stop. Every episode ends the same way. Pull over.

  1. 21h ago

    Boys Town, NE

    In 1917, a priest named Father Flanagan borrowed $90 to house five homeless boys, taking them in regardless of race or religion. By 1934 it had grown into an actual incorporated Nebraska village with its own government — and the 1938 MGM movie about it won Spencer Tracy a Best Actor Oscar that's still on display there today.

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  3. 1d ago

    Hershey, PA

    Milton and Catherine Hershey couldn't have children of their own — so in 1918, Milton put almost his entire fortune into a trust for a school for orphaned boys, meaning an orphan charity still technically owns one of the largest chocolate companies in the world. The town he built around it has streets named Chocolate Avenue and Cocoa Avenue, lit by more than a hundred streetlamps shaped like Hershey's Kisses.

  4. 2d ago

    Lily Dale

    In the 1920s, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini both visited this tiny Spiritualist town in western New York — for completely opposite reasons. It's still active today as headquarters of the National Spiritualist Association of Churches, with more than fifty certified mediums and twenty to thirty thousand visitors a year.

  5. 3d ago

    Farmington, CT

    In the 1880s, a wealthy young woman attended a girls' school in a small Connecticut town, fell in love with it, taught herself architecture, and designed her parents' retirement home on a hilltop there — filling it with Impressionist paintings by Monet, Degas, Whistler, and Cassatt. She survived the Lusitania. She became the first licensed female architect in Connecticut. When she died, she left instructions that nothing be moved. The Hill-Stead Museum is exactly as she left it.

  6. 3d ago

    Jim Thorpe, PA

    A penniless barge captain named Asa Packer arrived in this Pennsylvania coal town in 1833 — and went on to build one of the largest fortunes in the state, founding a railroad and a university along the way. The same coal boom produced something stranger: a gravity railroad built just to haul coal downhill, which became one of the country's first amusement rides once people realized how fun the trip down actually was.

  7. 4d ago

    Marietta, OH

    In 1788, forty-eight Revolutionary War veterans founded the first permanent American settlement in the entire Northwest Territory — on ground already covered in 2,000-year-old earthworks. Mound Cemetery, built around one of those mounds in 1801, now holds more Revolutionary War officers' graves than any other cemetery in the country.

  8. 5d ago

    Beaufort, SC

    Pat Conroy grew up with an abusive Marine fighter pilot for a father — and turned that exact pain into bestselling novels like The Great Santini and The Prince of Tides. The same military world that shaped him is still next door to the antebellum town that raised him, and his literary center is open for tours today.

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Pull Over is a short-form audio series about American small towns you've been driving past your whole life. Each episode runs about three minutes. One narrator, one town, one specific fact or story that earns your attention. No characters, no plot, no cliffhanger. Just a place that's been waiting for someone to stop. Every episode ends the same way. Pull over.

Information

  • Creator
    Richard L Burr
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    53
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026
  • Show Website
    Pull Over