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“You’ll Spoil the Boat”: Elmer Nelson, the Torch, and the Evidence
Season 5 Episode 177
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What does a bad grade on a high-school term paper have to do with the 1915 Eastland disaster? This week is part history, part confess…
2 months, 1 week ago
Mr. Eastland and the Night at the Museum
Season 4 Episode 176
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This week, I remember Dave Nelson, who passed away on July 10, 2026, just before the 111th anniversary of the Eastland disaster.
And …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Ink Against Indifference: The Eastland Cartoonists
Season 4 Episode 175
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A capsized ship at a Chicago dock should not have happened. Except, it did.
Today, we go looking for the people who translated that sh…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Dwight Boyer: The Man Who Spoke for “the Little Feller”
Season 4 Episode 174
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As we get closer to the 111th anniversary of the Eastland Disaster (July 24, 1915) in the Chicago River, we learn what careful writer…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Olive Carruthers: Chain-Smoking, Gravel-Voiced Chronicler of the Eastland
Season 4 Episode 173
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Sometimes, a single newspaper article can pull lives back from the shadows. Today, I want to share the story behind one of my most tr…
3 months ago
Rand McNally to the Chicago River: Agnes Lee's Eastland Story
Season 4 Episode 172
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The Eastland disaster didn't vanish into the Chicago River — it scattered into poems, magazines, archives, and family research, waiti…
3 months, 1 week ago
A Hell of a Job: Carl Sandburg's Eastland
Season 4 Episode 171
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As the 111th anniversary of the Eastland disaster approaches, the podcast turns toward the writers, poets, artists, and witnesses who…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
The Clue in the Old Almanac: Solving an Eastland Mystery
Season 4 Episode 170
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This week, we return to Edith Franklin Wyatt’s July 26, 1915 article, Hawthorne, A City of Sorrow: Community Hushed by Death. Wyatt i…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
The Scars That Wouldn't Heal: Two Priests, Two Parishes
Season 4 Episode 169
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One forgotten newspaper article can change how a major tragedy is remembered. I’m picking up the trail from Edith Franklin Wyatt’s Ju…
4 months ago
A City of Sorrow, a Voice of Fire — Edith Franklin Wyatt & the Eastland
Season 4 Episode 168
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A disaster can strike twice—first when it happens, and again in how it is remembered. Today, we bring back another “lost” voice of th…
4 months, 1 week ago