Muscatine Tours Podcast

By Daniel G. Clark

"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" airs live every Tuesday at 9:05 a.m. on KWPC AM-860, streaming via voiceofmuscatine.com. With guests and callers, host Dan Clark explores history, legend, and lore of Musc... more

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The podcast currently has 121 episodes available.

Muscatine Tours Podcast episodes:

December 11, 2007 "Trolleys, Tales & Talk" Dec. 11, 2007
Dan Clark's guest is Michael Maharry, MD, president of Friends of Muscatine Historic Preservation ( http://muscatinepreservation.org ). "If the community values the neighborhoods and and the old buildings, sort of like a resource... We don't have oil like Saudi Arabia that can bring us income, but we can have tourism income by preserving these old buildings and having people come in from all parts of the country to look around and then spend their money in Muscatine."
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30min
October 30, 2007 "Trolleys, Tales & Talk" Oct. 30, 2007
Dan Clark and Shirley Calvert and a call from Dennis Cockshoot
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30min
October 23, 2007 "trolleys, Tales & Talk" Oct. 23, 2007
Dan Clark discusses changes afoot in Downtown Muscatine. How might the Greater Downtown Muscatine Association be reorganized? Who speaks for our historic downtown anyway? Dan talks about Downtown as his reason for bringing a trolley bus to town, and a caller asks why Muscatine can't be as attractive a "destination" as Galena.
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30min
October 16, 2007 "Trolleys, Tales & Talk" Oct. 16, 2007
Dan Clark reads from "Let the Chips Fall: Thoughts From a Wood Chopper," by Chuck Hotle (1915-2007), Washington County author and historian and father of a current Muscatine resident.
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27min
January 02, 2007 "Trolleys, Tales & Talk" Jan. 2, 2007
Dan Clark's guest is David Brodnax, Sr., assistant professor of history at Trinity Christian College (Palos Heights, IL). He is in town copying documents at the Alexander G. Clark House.
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32min
December 06, 2006 "Trolleys, Tales & Talk" Dec. 5, 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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33min
September 12, 2006 "Trolleys, Tales & Talk" Sept. 12, 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.
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33min
September 05, 2006 "Trolleys, Tales & Talk" Sept. 5, 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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33min
July 12, 2006 "Trolleys, Tales & Talk" Jul. 11, 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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32min
February 14, 2006 "Trolleys, Tales & Talk" Feb. 14, 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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31min

FAQs about Muscatine Tours Podcast:

How many episodes does Muscatine Tours Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 121 episodes available.