The America's National Parks Podcast is sponsored by L.L. Bean.

This year, L.L. Bean is joining up with the National Park Foundation,

the official non-profit partner of the National Park Service to help you find your happy place in an amazing system of more than 400 national parks including historic and cultural sites, monuments, preserves, lakeshores, and seashores

that dot the American landscape,

many of which you'll find just a short trip from home.

L.L. Bean is proud to be an official partner of the National Park Foundation.

Discover your perfect day in a park at find your park.com. Would it surprise you to learn that at the turn of the 20th century, the eastern half of the American landscape looked very different than it does today?

I'm not talking about man-made cities and highways, but the wild nature.

If you were to hop in a time machine and hike the Appalachian Trail in the year 1900,

the wilderness you would find would be entirely different.

Today on America's National Parks,

a tree disease that altered America, and a chance at rebirth on the site of

one of our nation's greatest tragedies.

Here's Abigail Treview. 1 medium onion 1.2 onion, a quarter cup margarine

1 tablespoon all-purpose flour

2 quartz chicken broth

1 cup smooth peanut butter, half a cup unsalted peanuts chopped.

1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce, half a cup water chestnuts.

Saute the onion and margarine.

Stir in the flour to make a rue.

Once the rue is ready, add chicken broth and bring to a boil. Remove from heat and strain.

Add peanut butter and Worcestershire sauce and stir.

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