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This week, explore why staying socially connected is an important part of healthy aging. Learn simple ways to strengthen existing relationships, meet new people, and create meaningful connections through activities, volunteering, hobbies, and time with family and friends.

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.If you come for a visit to our Mississippi Valley and want to bring a souvenir back to the relatives in Potosi,…

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.If you have ever visited the Battlefield of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania, you may have seen the statue of John Buford at…

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.The most famous steamboat race ever chronicled on the Upper Mississippi River was between a tortoise and a hare in…

Christina Bohannan, Democratic candidate for Congress in Iowa's 1st district, talks about high costs for housing, health care, food and gas and how she would address them, tariff policy, the Farm Bill, corruption, AI, and the rural vote and ends with her favorite Johnny Cash song.

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.Even the Mississippi River seems to know when it has crossed the Mason-Dixon line. The Upper Mississippi is a Yankee…

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.Galena, Illinois, a hundred miles upriver, must be one of the more unusual small towns along the Upper Mississippi…

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.If you are old enough, you may remember the good old days when the 4th of July was still called "The Glorious…

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.What follows is a tale of two cities: London, England, and Moline, Illinois. Each city has its own version of the tale.…