Tue, 5 December 2006
Dan Clark and Jeff Shay discuss Muscatine area involvement in the Civil War. Dan reads "Patriotic Patriarchs," William D. Randall's account of the 37th Iowa regiment known as "the Greybeards." Jeff tells more and describes the Civil War book he is writing.
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Tue, 12 September 2006
Dan Clark and guest Gladys Mittman of the Muscatine County Genealogical Society and Muscatine County Heritage Association discuss Heritage Days, the Old Stone Church, and various topics in Muscatine County history. Dan plays a recording of William D. Randall on Benjamin Nye, the first permanent settler of Muscatine County. |
Tue, 5 September 2006
Dan Clark reads his blog post about Muscatine's Alexander G. Clark (http://iowaglobal.blogspot.com/2006/08/long-overdue-attention-for-alexander-g_25.html) and tells about the prize-winning paper about A.G. Clark by Stephen Frese. (More at http://alexanderclark.org and http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ht/40.1/frese.html.) Also, callers try to answer Dan's question, "Who was Pearl McGill?"
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Tue, 11 July 2006
Dan Clark talks with Peter and Marie Press about writing and producing "Muscatine! the Musical." See http://web.mac.com/press_a/iWeb/Muscatine!%20The%20Musical/The%20Production.html. [Peter died of cancer at age 52 on Nov. 30, 2008.]
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Tue, 14 February 2006
Dan Clark starts with a 1949 recording of William D. Randall reading his story, "Jimmy White Finds Freedom: Slavery and Alexander Clark," then discusses Black History of Muscatine with Annabell Luth and Kent Sissel. Annabell is descended from early settlers who were among the first African Americans in Iowa, and Kent is restorer and resident of the 1878 Alexander G. Clark House.
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Tue, 17 January 2006
Dan Clark interviews John Haskins, founder of Friends of the Old Barn. The FOB's first meeting was that evening.
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