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.Take out a pencil and a piece of paper. A short quiz will do more than just my words to increase your respect for Tom…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.Between St. Paul, Minnesota, and St. Louis, Missouri, the Upper Mississippi River once planted a hundred towns beneath…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.What follows is a word to the wise. Whenever I drive up Brady Street hill in Davenport, Iowa, to the top of the bluffs,…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.In those quiet moments of reflection, sitting in your kitchen as the sun rises and the coffee finishes perking, what…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.What follows is the story of how Christmas came to the Illinois prairie in 1869, courtesy of a war in Europe.In that…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.Among the many religious groups who arrived in our Mississippi River Valley after the Black Hawk War of 1832, each…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.By day, Lou Belby is a perfectly normal professor of Spanish and Latin American literature. Late each afternoon he…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.Are you as worried as I am about the disappearance of the mayflies? June is a poor thing along the Upper Mississippi…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.After walking fifteen hundred miles through woods and forests, up hills and across streams, out over endless prairies,…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.St. Matthew may have known his lilies of the field when he advised us to be like them and "take no thought for the…