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Remember the Eastland… and Sell More Insurance!
Season 3 Episode 118
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In this episode, I explore an aspect of the Eastland Disaster that’s rarely investigated: the insurance industry’s response. It’s no…
1 year, 3 months ago
From Gettysburg Grit to Eastland Survival
Season 3 Episode 117
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In this episode, I share the compelling story of the Wagaman brothers from Pennsylvania, not far from Gettysburg. In 1915, both were …
1 year, 4 months ago
Letters, Ledgers, and Lost Lives
Season 3 Episode 116
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It’s May 31st—an important date if, like me, you have roots in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. On this day in 1889, the South Fork Dam gave …
1 year, 4 months ago
A Jeweler, a Woman Diver, a Candy Butcher: Eastland’s Unlikely Trio
Season 3 Episode 115
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The untold stories of the 1915 Eastland disaster continue to surface over a century later through forgotten newspaper accounts and ov…
1 year, 4 months ago
A Tsar, A Serial Killer (??), and a Cabinetmaker from Myjava
Season 3 Episode 114
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In today's episode, I take you on a journey through my unexpected DNA discoveries and how they've connected me to both famous and inf…
1 year, 4 months ago
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…
1 year, 4 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…
1 year, 5 months 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…
1 year, 5 months 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 …
1 year, 5 months 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, 5 months ago