This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. If there is a rich heart of the heart of the Illinois prairie, it would be Henry County just south of here. In the first decade of its opening to settlement, the county’s rich black soil attracted six separate colonizing groups. It’s as if every potential Eastern Moses in the 1830s drew lines across the Appalachian wilderness, all of which converged on the same Promised Land—Henry County. Other Episodes ... Read More

The Quad City Symphony Orchestra will perform a tribute to the unique sound of American music with their Signature Series III concert on Saturday, February 27, 2021 at 7:30 PM, inspired by the Figge Art Museum’s exhibition For America . This intimate string trio performance will be available for a limited socially distanced audience at the Figge as well as via digital access/live streaming. Emily Nash, Associate Concertmaster and violinist; Bruno Silva, violist; and Kit Pollen, Associate Principal and double bassist for the Quad City Symphony Orchestra , will perform works by three American composers.... Read More

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. Are you one of those kids whose parents went off to Disney World and all you got was this lousy T-shirt that announced that very thing? Try not to be too jealous of Billy in the following story. Other Episodes December 27, 2023 The Special Edition This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. ... Read More

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. The august members of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences who met in June of 1869 to vote on the membership of Joseph Duncan Putman must have had a reservation or two. They were only amateur scientists themselves—a penmanship teacher, a public-school teacher, a real estate agent, and a tobacconist who had formed the Academy to combine their personal collections of shells, minerals, bones, and rocks. But Joseph Putnam was only thirteen. Other Episodes ... Read More

Recently retired Chief Curator Emerita Dr. Brandon Brame Fortune, of the National Portrait Gallery, will give a virtual talk entitled American Artists’ Self-Portraits Then and Now on February 25, 2021 from 5-6PM. This is a free event in conjunction with the Figge Art Museum’s exhibition For America: 200 Years of Painting from the National Academy of Design . Other Episodes May 16, 2024 ... Read More

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. Are you a stressed-out parent who wonders how you are going to get son number one to play practice on time and still rush your daughter to volleyball in time to pick up son number two from Cub Scouts and get him over to Little League? Have I got a role model for you. Other Episodes December 27, 2023 The Special Edition ... Read More

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Don Wooten and a cavalcade of guests kill an hour in a very unceremonious way. Other Episodes May 11, 2024 Saturday Morning Live! Carrying on one of the most venerable traditions in local broadcasting history, Kai Swanson carries on the carrying on Don Wooten carried on with a cavalcade of carriers on. Carry on. ... Read More

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