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Santa Fe Railway's Eastland Victims
Season 3 Episode 113
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A cemetery caretaker's steady act of tending graves becomes a powerful lesson in historical preservation and honoring forgotten lives…
11 months ago
Good-Bye, Everybody: A City, A Ship, A Song
Season 3 Episode 112
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🛳️🎶 “Goodbye, Everybody…” That was the jaunty tune Benton Harbor residents remembered the Eastland playing from its calliope — long b…
11 months, 1 week ago
From Valhalla Halls to River Graves — The Danish Heartbreak of 1915
Season 3 Episode 111
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Grief knows no borders. When Chicago's SS Eastland capsized in 1915, the tragedy didn't just devastate local families—it sent shockwa…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
The Red Socks Historian: Peter Alter and the Chicago History Museum
Season 3 Episode 110
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Peter Alter—Chief Historian and Director of the Studs Terkel Center for Oral History at the Chicago History Museum—joins me for this …
11 months, 3 weeks ago
History Doesn’t Speak One Language—Neither Did the Eastland Story
Season 3 Episode 109
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When history speaks, it rarely does so in just one language.
In this episode of Flower in the River, I take you on a journey I never e…
1 year ago
Blood Across the Ocean: When Chicago's Disaster Shook Poland
Season 3 Episode 108
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A breakthrough discovery reveals how news of the 1915 Eastland disaster reached across the Atlantic to Poland, unearthing voices unhe…
1 year ago
The "I Don't Know" Man: From Eastland Disaster to Salvage Czar
Season 3 Episode 107
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The untold stories of Chicago's deadliest disaster continue to emerge from dusty archives and forgotten legal documents. In episode 1…
1 year ago
The Coroner, The Catastrophe, and the Inquest
Season 3 Episode 106
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A long-overlooked document adds a vital missing piece to the Eastland Disaster story.
For over a century, the full account of what hap…
1 year ago
Eastland 1905: Burning Water, Missed Warnings
Season 3 Episode 105
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In this episode, I explore a seldom documented incident involving the Eastland steamship from August 1905—ten years before the infamo…
1 year, 1 month ago
Receipts from the River—What the Departed Left Behind
Season 3 Episode 104
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Ever wonder what secrets lie buried in forgotten newspapers and dusty archives? For the victims and survivors of Chicago's deadliest …
1 year, 1 month ago