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.In December of 1858, Jesse Clement, the editor of a fledgling newspaper, the Dubuque Times, set out by steamboat,…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.If only Helen Burkhiser had read Little House on the Prairie when she first began teaching school in 1937, Mankato,…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.In the fall of 1849, some 900 Swedish immigrants gathered in a Swedish church in Chicago to begin the trek across the…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.On May 5th 1868, General John A. Logan, Commander in Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, issued General Orders no.…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.Those of you who doubt that a straw can actually break a camel's back, or that a kingdom can be lost for want of a nail…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.To C. M. Junkins and his wife from Fairfield, Iowa, keeping a log of the maiden voyage of the steamboat “Morning Star”…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.The devout band of pioneers who founded the town of Galesburg out on the Illinois prairie in 1837 were strict in their…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.When Mary Jane Wiley McCaw arrived in Rock Island in 1843 and settled her eight children in an abandoned schoolhouse on…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.In 1960, when Japanese Emperor Akihito visited Chicago, Mayor Richard J. Daley presented him with a bluegill from the…
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.As the 1960s drew to a close, the escalating war in Vietnam drew Americans into a seemingly hopeless moral dilemma, but…