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.Generous hearts often find it difficult to draw a line between being a gracious giver and being a pushover. That was…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.By the winter of 1875, the parishioners of Central Methodist Church in Davenport had decided on a new battle plan in…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.Had David Benton Sears not been as restless as he was, he might have been content to bask in the double glory of being…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.When Mother Nature hands out souls, she is generally careful to separate those who are hard-working,…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.Among most Rock Islanders, the carp has a low reputation. If you invite a dozen of your friends over for a grand carp…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.In August of 1978, two Minneapolis schoolteachers, Marsha Berry and Janet Dagliesh, made an impulsive decision which…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.I am sorry to report that Minnesota may be only months away from a war to determine the fate of the Upper and Lower…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.For most of the past hundred years, the wetlands along the Upper Mississippi have been disappearing at an alarming…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.Early in 1860, the New York World sent an anonymous reporter to spend a year in Iowa in an attempt to discover just…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.Dubuque was not always the upstanding city she is today. Begun as a lead mining settlement in the 18th century, she…