Rock Island Lines with Roald Tweet A Grand Excursion CD

This listing is for Rock Island Lines with Roald Tweet A Grand Excursion CD.  

Authors:Roald D. Tweet, WVIK-FM (Radio station), Augustana College (Rock Island, Ill)

Publisher: Augustana College, WVIK-FM, Rock Island, Ill., 2003

Tracklist:

1 Excursions and Incursions

2 Imagine That

3 Saint Louis Aid

4 Showing Off

5 Here Come The Railroads

6 Fate Or Chance

7 Samuel B. Reed

8 A Lake Pepin Bluff

9 Silliman and Sheffield

10 Catherine Sedgwick

11 George Bancroft

12 Presidential Candidates

13 The Fruit Tree

14 The Moral Value Of Railroads

15 Calvary In A Railroad Depot

16 St Paul's Secret

17 Train Food

18 Rock Island Lines

19 Twin Journeys

In A grand Excursion Roald Tweet celebrates the Grand Excursion 2004, telling the story of railroad development from Chicago to Rock Island, and the historic steamboat cruise up the mighty river to the falls of St. Anthony. Roald Tweet spins his tories of the Mississippi Valley on the Rock Island Lines, a radio feature on WVIK, Augustana Public Radio. In A Grand Excursion, Roald Tweet celebrates the Grand Excursion 2004, telling the story of railroad development from Chicago to Rock Island and the historic steamboat cruise up The Mighty River to the Falls of St Anthony.

Roald Tweet (1933–2020) was a professor of English at Augustana College and a historian of the upper Mississippi River. Tweet was the husband of Margaret Tweet, the brother of David Tweet, father of Randall Tweet, Gretchen O'Brien, and Jonathan Tweet. Roald also was a grandfather and a great grandfather. Tweet was part of the Agustin's Historical Society, St. John's Lutheran Church, Contemporary Club, Eagle Scouts, and a member of Sons of Norway. He earned a master's degree in English and a Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of Chicago. He created three-minute vignettes about local history for his radio series, "Rock Island Lines," which earned the Illinois Humanities Council's Lawrence W. Towner Award in 2001. He earned the Studs Terkel Humanities Service Award in 2006. His published books include History of Transportation on the Upper Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, A History of the Rock Island District Corps of Engineers, 1866–1983, and The Quad Cities: An American Mosaic. In 2014 he began co-hosting the writing-related radio show Scribble. He was known as a whittler, and his little wooden birds were popular on Augustana campus.

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