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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.Consider this an advanced warning should you decide to invite a Rock Islander into your home for dinner. Like most…

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.Several months ago, I went to Anna V. Larson's funeral at St. John's Lutheran Church in Rock Island. It was one of…

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.Just as Adam named all the flora and fauna in the Garden of Eden, so we Rock Islanders give names to the landscape…

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.Newspaper editors are almost as apt as other folks to change their minds when a better idea comes along. Here's a local…

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.On May 10, 1823, at about noon, a small sternwheel steamboat drew within sight of Fort Armstrong at the western tip of…

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.A while back I told you about a local professor whose grand imagination represents the pinnacle of professor-dom. I'm…

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.Fourteen miles upstream from Rock Island at the head of the Rock Island Rapids, sits the small town of LeClaire, Iowa,…

The program is in its 26th year of providing paid creative outlets for area youth, ages 15-21, and business relations experience. Three murals, as well as a poetry apprenticeship, are underway this summer.

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.Few people around Rock Island had ever seen a downtown die. Since Midwest towns began to sprout up in the 19th century,…

The club says lawn courts were the norm for decades before giving way to concrete in the 1970s. Now, three outdoor tennis lawns are open in the Quad Cities to members and the public.