Rock Island Lines Podcast
Monday thru Friday 11 AM
A series of award-winning stories about our region's traditions, institutions, and people, past and present. Rock Island Lines is written and read by Roald Tweet, Professor Emeritus of English at Augustana College, and sponsored by Quad City Bank and Trust.
Latest Episodes
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.What a great state, that Illinois. When she decides to move, nothing gets in her way. Certainly not Mother Nature. Not…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.After the English gentlewoman, Isabella Lucy Bird, had satisfied her desire to see the American Wild West by visiting…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.Apparently, during the first half of the 19th century, it was impossible to be a genuine English gentlewoman without a…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.You'll have to forgive Angelo Lagomarcino for never completely understanding the American dream when he arrived in…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.It's too bad the Velie Carriage Company of Moline never put one of their fancy carriages up against the Deacon's…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.It was Mark Twain who first noticed that the Mississippi was constantly shortening itself, cutting off loops and bends,…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.When Father Samuel Mazzuchelli arrived in the raw lead mining town of Galena in 1836 to begin building a Catholic…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.When the Dominican Order assigned Father Samuel Mazzuchelli as the first Catholic missionary to the newly-opened lands…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.If you can believe the stories you read, American males have always had trouble when it comes to women. Tom Sawyer's…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.Had the famous Norwegian novelist and political orator, Bjornstjerne Bjornson, limited his American visit to the East…