1. Island Stages Roald Tweet 3:02

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. Of the thousand or more island sprinkled on the Upper Mississippi River, only one is fit for that Biblical wise man: the solid limestone bed of Rock Island. Foolish men have their choice of any of the others, from St. Paul to St. Louis, all of them made of slippery silt or sand. As the Sunday School song says, “when the rains come down and the floods come up” . . . watch out foolish man.

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