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.We all agree, don’t we, that civilization is on its last legs? A few more years, at most. Who’s to blame, do you think?…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.To some residents of Clinton, Iowa, the ad in the local newspaper promising a seven-day excursion to the Falls of St.…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.The young Frenchman who arrived in New Orleans in 1832 was no ordinary visitor from abroad. Joseph Nicolas Nicollet had…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.If God had asked for advice from Minnesotans and Wisconsinites when he set about designing Mississippi islands, those…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.Do you remember that outrageous cartoon woodpecker named Woody? With his pointy red topknot, his insane cackle, and his…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.By April 1st, 1993, Rock Islanders breathed a collective sigh of relief and began congratulating themselves. There was…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.If the Guinness Book of World Records had been around in 1840, the good citizens of Bellevue, Iowa would certainly have…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.If the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had been around in the days of Noah, things would have been different. Folks would…
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This Roald Tweet on Rock Island.The Mississippi River likes a practical joke as well as the next person. How else to explain the summer of 1864?By that…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.Ever since Noah gave floods a bad name way back, real estate developers have been reluctant to use the word. Houses…