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Join lifelong Elginite Sharry Blazier for a weekly journey through Elgin, IL. Featuring stories, songs, memories, and anecdotes about this quintessential Midwestern town that's too small to be a city ... more
FAQs about This Is My Elgin: Hometown Songs & Stories:How many episodes does This Is My Elgin: Hometown Songs & Stories have?The podcast currently has 8 episodes available.
August 16, 2020Elgin Summer/Winter: A Love/Hate RelationshipWhen it comes to Elgin weather, there's no pleasing somepeople, and curmudgeonly Sharry could be their Queen! Join her, andlegions of crickets outside her window, as she reminisces about summerdays of sidewalk sales & thunderstorms, and winter ice stormscamping out on the kitchen floor....more16minPlay
August 09, 2020Mom's North Street WorldJoin Sharry & her mother's memories of growing up on North Street, in the days of streetcars, the "Rag Man", and shingles from the St. Johns steeple raining down on the back yard. Featuring the song "Everyday You"...more22minPlay
August 02, 2020A Walk Through DowntownJoin us for a walk through downtown Elgin during the time of Covid as Sharry is flooded with memories and (Gasp!) even admits that the old Elgin High building is kinda cool....more16minPlay
July 26, 2020West Side/East SideJoin Lifelong Elgin Westsider Sharry on her adventure to becoming an Eastsider. She first has to seek acknowledgement of her existence from all powerful ComEd and deal with horrors at the State street DMV. After those trails, the prospect (and difficulty!) of giving up a 50yr old library card from Gail Borden Public Library arises. ...more20minPlay
July 12, 2020Teenaged Elgin BoredomThey looked and behaved like no generation before or after. They were young. They smelled of Brylcreme, Stridex, Clearasil, and Ben Hur perfume. They drove in endless, pointless circles through downtown Elgin...And little Sharry thought 60's Teenagers were the coolest humans everrrrrr! (And she was right -- Right?) ...more18minPlay
July 05, 2020Bluff City CemeteryYa can't beat fun at the old cemetery!! Well, at least, little Sharry couldn't. Bluff City and Sharry go back a long way, and it continues to lead her to new life journeys, on the next installment of This is My Elgin: Hometown Songs & Stories....more22minPlay
June 28, 2020South End BluesIt was the Great Depression, and sometimes the Blazier Boys went to bed hungry. But they never lacked for fun and escapist entertainment with their neighborhood pals on the south end of Elgin. Tales of Poplar Creek and the Frog Hollow Gang, on this week's This is My Elgin: Hometown Songs & Stories....more28minPlay
June 20, 2020Dad's Treasure HuntIn this inaugural Father's Day episode you'll learn how Dad, the Fox River, and the Elgin Police department came together to create a beautiful memory....more23minPlay
FAQs about This Is My Elgin: Hometown Songs & Stories:How many episodes does This Is My Elgin: Hometown Songs & Stories have?The podcast currently has 8 episodes available.