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Santa Fe Railway's Eastland Victims
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

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Good-Bye, Everybody: A City, A Ship, A Song
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

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From Valhalla Halls to River Graves — The Danish Heartbreak of 1915
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

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The Red Socks Historian: Peter Alter and the Chicago History Museum
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

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History Doesn’t Speak One Language—Neither Did the Eastland Story
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

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Blood Across the Ocean: When Chicago's Disaster Shook Poland
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

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The "I Don't Know" Man: From Eastland Disaster to Salvage Czar
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

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The Coroner, The Catastrophe, and the Inquest
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

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Eastland 1905: Burning Water, Missed Warnings
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…

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Receipts from the River—What the Departed Left Behind
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

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