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.Like many famous Englishmen and women who toured the Mississippi Valley in the 19th century, Charles Dickens was…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island."A suburban paradise" is how the Argus described the sixty acres at the edge of Rock Island. A public relations…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.When the Illinois Press Association chose Rock Island and Moline as the site for their 1871 annual meeting, the Twin…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.When the Reverend George Gale and his followers built their Eden on the Illinois prairie in 1836 as a place to train…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.Perhaps love really is blind, as Shakespeare claimed in The Merchant of Venice. How else to explain the epic poem Henry…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.The announcement that Elizbeth Cady Stanton, the famous campaigner for women's rights, was coming to speak at the…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.If a simple fence can make the grass greener on the other side, just think what a river like the Mississippi can do.…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.I wonder whatever possessed several young Rock Island ladies to demand equal rights back in 1916.That summer, Rock…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.John P. Newburg of Rock Island had an almost ideal job for a tinkerer. He was manager of the Watch Tower Inn, high on a…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.I am confident that the quality of education in Rock Island County jumped dramatically in the fall of 1891. Just a look…