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Muscatine Tours Podcast
by Daniel G. Clark
"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" airs live every Tuesday at 9:05 a.m. on KWPC AM-860, streaming via voiceofmuscatine.com. With guests and callers, host Dan Clark explores history, legend, and lore of Muscatine, Iowa USA. Sponsored by Muscatine Trolley & Tours (muscatine-tours.com) and Muscatine Books and More (muscatinebooks.com). Shows will eventually be archived back to January 2006.
Episodes
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Live from Kislovodsk on KWPC-AM860
July 24, 1998 • John Schwandke reported live from Muscatine's sister city in Russia, Kislovodsk.
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Easter in Moscow USSR
Dr. Bruce Rigdon addressing an orientation session for participants in the 1984 Iowa Christian Friendship Study Tour of the USSR.
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"Dan Clark on 'City Talk' with Mayor DeWayne Hopkins"
DeWayne HopkinsDaniel Graham Clark March 22 at 4:58pm Mr. Clark, I would be honored if you would consider being my guest on City Talk next Thursday. How bout it? Like · · Unfollow Post · See Friendship Daniel Graham Clark Thursday the 29th? I could. What are we talking about? March 22 at 7:01pm ·...
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"Antislavery Ancestors"
"So, I keep gathering the pieces, and one of these days I think it'll flow out." Dan Clark tells about family history discoveries and says he is writing a book. The readings on this podcast began as two Facebook "notes" which may be read at Underground Railroader Ancestors and Anticipating "a…
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Iowa Peacemaker Stories: Robert A. Fiedler II • Sept. 30, 2010
Robert A. Fiedler II realized he couldn't answer when his 10-year-old daughter asked, "Daddy, why do you do what you do?" He quit his job rather than prepare for nuclear war.
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" May 4, 2010
[Distributed via e-mail and Facebook on May 3, 2010] Hey, Neighbors! THIS WEEK (May 4) on Trolleys, Tales & Talk: "THE END OF THE LINE" This will be my last show. That's right, this is the end. It's been a good run since January 2006. The trolley is parked, and I am moving on to other things. For...
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" Apr. 27, 2010
"Civil War 150 Years Later" • Dan Clark read William D. Randall's story, "Muscatine's Heroic General," and guests Pam Knott and Lee Miller of the Civil War Memorial Committee told about a fundraising campaign to replace the 1875 monument at the Muscatine County Courthouse. As sesquicentennial...
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Proposal to create a Muscatine County Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission
Dan Clark and Lee Miller address the Muscatine County Board of Supervisors on April 26, 2010 • Photo: Lee Miller with soldier removed from 1875 monument • Duration 04:36 min
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" Apr. 20, 2010
"Too Much Local History?" • Dan Clark's guest is Kent Sissel, restorer and resident of the Alexander G. Clark House. The Muscatine City Council recently recognized a two-square-block area as the "Alexander Clark Heritage District." They discuss what's next for our latest district as it relates to...
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" Apr. 13, 2010
"Crawfordsville Connections" Dan Clark tells of attending the 51st annual meeting of the Washington County Historical Society the previous evening in the little Iowa town that's still bragging it was the birthplace of the national Republican Party in 1854. He continues from last week about the...
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" Apr. 6, 2010
"The traffic...to Muscatine was very heavy," according to O.A. Garretson, along the important Underground Railroad line from Crawfordsville in Washington County. Dan Clark reads several Muscatine references from Garretson's 1924 article which you can read at...
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" Mar. 30, 2010
"Season Without a Trolley?" Dan Clark announces: APRIL 15 WILL BE THE LAST DAY OF TROLLEY-BUS OPERATION FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE. "What I've decided is that my little company needs a rebuilding season. I apologize to all who hoped to use the trolley in coming months, but I am optimistic about...
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" Mar. 23, 2010
"Moving Day for the Jayne House" • Dan Clark's guests Susan Jayne and Frank Kelly tell about some of the families who lived at 1402 Mulberry Avenue over the years. Susan's great-grandparents Henry and Ella Jayne built the house 110 years ago. The Kellys were there in the 1980s and 90s when it was...
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" Mar. 16, 2010
"Muscatine Downtown—Maybe Down But Far From Out" • Dan Clark's guests are Chris Clark and Dawnese Openshaw. Dawnese co-chairs the Downtown Action Alliance http://www.muscatinedowntown.com and tells what's coming up including "It's A Spring Thing Girls Getaway Weekend," March 26-27. Chris tells...
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" Mar. 9, 2010
"Historic Preservation Turns 10" Dan Clark talks about his experience serving on the Muscatine Historic Preservation Commission, created 10 years ago in response to citizens who were asking for the city to take better care of preserving Muscatine's unique collection of historic buildings and...
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" Mar. 2, 2010
"Renewing Muscatine's Civil War monument" Dan Clark's guests are Sandy Lee and Lee Miller. Lee chairs the committee to restore the 1875 Civil War monument on the grounds of the Muscatine County Courthouse; Sandy is local commander of the American Legion and treasurer of the Civil War Memorial…
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" Feb. 23, 2010
"African American life in 19th century Iowa" Dan Clark's guest is David Brodnax, Sr., a leading expert on black life in early Iowa and Muscatine in particular. A law graduate of the University of Iowa with a PhD from Northwestern, David has taught history at Trinity Christian College (Palos...
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" Feb. 16, 2010
"A Heritage District for Black History and More" Dan Clark's guest is Kent Sissel, restorer and resident of the 1878 Alexander G. Clark House. This week Muscatine City Council will consider Kent's proposal for naming a two-square-block area on both sides of West Third Street as the "Alexander…
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" Feb. 9, 2010
"Something Magical About a Bookstore!" Dan Clark's guests are Sharon and Tom Savage, co-owners of Muscatine Books & More http://muscatinebooks.com—and sponsors of this show "from the git-go." Eight years ago they opened their independent bookstore in the recently restored Silberhorn Building at…
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" Feb. 2, 2010
"Muscatine's Black History" Did you know Muscatine was Iowa's center of African American life in the 1850s? Dan Clark says there's a lot happening in Muscatine during Black History Month, a time for us all to learn about race relations and equal rights. Then historian David Brodnax calls from...
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" Jan. 26, 2010
"Builders to the World" Dan Clark's guest is Richard H. Stanley, chair emeritus and past president of the Stanley Group which includes the Muscatine-based Stanley Consultants, Inc., a member-owned worldwide provider of engineering, environmental, and construction services. Dick tells about the...
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" Jan. 19, 2010
"It's Time for Ragtime!" The 16th Annual Eagles and Ivories Ragtime Weekend is January 29-30-31. Dan Clark's guests are Chris Clark and Duffy DeFrance representing the Muscatine County Arts Council which co-sponsors the festival along with the Muscatine Art Center. See schedule and program and...
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" Jan. 12, 2010
Dan Clark called this show "Who's got a better idea for Muscatine (better than tourism)?" [more soon]
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" Jan. 5, 2010
Dan Clark asked his next-door neighbor Frank Kelly to take the lead for this first show of Year 5. A former executive of the local community foundation, Frank says Muscatine is "close to greatness" as an award-winning city for many attributes and attractions, e.g., health care and river front and...
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" Dec. 29, 2009
Dan Clark called this show "Isn't it time for a REAL trolley in Muscatine (again)?" We had 'em from the 1880s through the 1920s, unless you count the electric interurban which ran through 1938. What would it take, he asks, to run a real streetcar in Muscatine, maybe between historic...
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" Dec. 22, 2009
Dan Clark reads "First Christmas Tree" by William D. Randall (Little Known Stories of Muscatine, Vol. 4) and then takes a call from Randall's daughter, Shirley Calvert. Guest author Tom Savage says his research has turned up more information about early settlers than was known when the historical...
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" Dec. 15, 2009
Dan Clark called this show "It's Our People on that Monument." His guest is Lee Miller, who is leading an effort by local veterans groups and others to restore the 1875 Civil War monument on the grounds of the Muscatine County Courthouse. They propose to replace the soldier atop the column and…
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" Dec. 8, 2009
Dan Clark called this show "Old Barn 'Acorn Fund' Saves the Day." His guests are John Haskins, founder and president of Friends of the Old Barn, and Judi Holdorf, executive director of the Community Foundation of Greater Muscatine. Two weeks ago the Muscatine County supervisors reversed an…
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" Dec. 1, 2009
Dan Clark called this show "No, the Muscatine Trolley is NOT for sale..." but hurried on to say he is getting ready for some changes in the coming year. December concludes eight years of MT&T and four years of TTT. "In the coming year, I will pass the age of 'Old' John Brown when he died December...
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" Nov. 24, 2009
Dan Clark calls this show "What else can we learn about the Underground Railroad around Muscatine?" His guest is Doug Jones, staff archaeologist for the State Historical Society of Iowa whose job includes Underground Railroad research. Doug is visiting the Muscatine area to learn about Alexander…
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" Nov. 17, 2009
Dan Clark calls this show "Mark Twain Dissenting AND the Diogenes of Diamond Towns." Muscatine brags about the months Mark Twain lived here in 1854. We love his praise of our sunsets, but most don't know his anti-war writings. Dan reads from Twain's "The War-Prayer" in belated recognition of...
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" Nov. 10, 2009
Dan Clark calls this show "Muscatine Memories of the Berlin Wall and Its Fall." His guests are Kristine Conlon and Ingrid Rowe of Muscatine Sister Cities Association. Kristine is a Muscatine native and German-language teacher who led several school trips to Germany. Ingrid is an East German…
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" Nov. 3, 2009
Dan Clark calls this show "Our Very Own Lincoln-Assassination Story." After killing President Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth eluded federal pursuers and changed his name and lived out more adventures. He ended up in Oklahoma or maybe South America or India. Booth's accomplice Michael…
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" Oct. 27, 2009
Dan Clark calls this show "Wedding Destination Muscatine." His guest is Misty Lutz of Hazel Green Bridal and Tux, one of the sponsors of the Wedding Salon Bridal Show that will be at the Muscatine Mall on November 1 http://www.specialelegantevents.com/id83.html. They discuss the bridal show and…
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" Oct. 20, 2009
Dan Clark calls this show "Connecting the Dots...to Harpers Ferry and Beyond." He's just back from West Virginia where abolitionist John Brown led raiders into the federal arsenal on October 16, 1859, and helped bring on the Civil War. Dan experienced some of the 150th anniversary observances and...
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" Oct. 13, 2009
Dan Clark devotes this show to the 150th anniversary of John Brown's raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry (now West Virginia) on October 16, 1859, in an attempt to end slavery. Dan will take part in a conference there this week http://www.johnbrownharpersferry.com/ and visit a friend, a...
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" Oct. 6, 2009
Dan Clark's guests are Ann Meeker and Dawnese Openshaw, business owners and leaders of Muscatine's Downtown Action Alliance http://muscatinedowntown.com/. They discuss coming events and promotions and talk about holding onto dreams for a vibrant "heart of the community" in this tough economy....
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" Sept. 29, 2009
Dan Clark's guest is Heather Shoppa, director of Muscatine's Convention and Visitors Bureau http://www.meetmuscatine.com/. It's her job to market our town's attractions, and she tells about two big days for out-of-town visitors arriving via motor coaches: Great River Celebration and Meet…
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" Sept. 15, 2009
Dan Clark's topic is "Who's Afraid of the Paint Police?" Dan compares Muscatine's Historic Preservation Commission (educational and advisory only), which he chairs, with other communities' more robust protections for historic properties. And he confesses envy of Dubuque which last month…
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" Sept. 8, 2009
Dan Clark's topic is "Celebrating Freedom Seekers" with guest Barb Christensen, director of the Muscatine Art Center http://muscatineartcenter.org/. They discuss a current exhibition of paintings by Joseph Holston, "Color In Freedom: Journey Along the Underground Railroad," and related programs…
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" Sept. 1, 2009
Dan Clark's topic is "Iowa and Russia: A Half Century of Citizen Diplomacy," starting from memories of Nikita Khrushchev's visit to Iowa in 1959. He tells of welcoming visitors from the former Soviet Union and helping many Iowans with their exchange efforts, having traveled in Russia eight times,...
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" August 25, 2009
Dan Clark says, "It's Time for School—Preservation School!" The Muscatine (city) and Louisa (county) preservation commissions will be hosting a lot of history horsepower at a workshop on historic preservation that will be presented in Mucatine Sept. 17-18 by experts from Iowa's State Historic...
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" August 18, 2009
Dan Clark called this show "A Half Hour for Billy Baladeer" in memory of William "Bill" Duval who died last week at age 86. With recorded hymns as background (Bill playing in his "primitive piano" style), Dan reads stories from Bill's life as salesman and musician from the book Bill published…
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" August 11, 2009
A demolition reprieve is running out for the 110-year-old Henry Jayne house acquired last fall by the Muscatine Art Center. The center's trustees say they need the land at 1402 Mulberry Ave. for "future expansion" and insist that letting the house remain at its historic location is out of the...
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" July 28, 2009
Dan Clark and guest Kent Sissel, resident restorer of the Alexander G. Clark House, discuss steps involved in gaining recognition for the area surrounding the West Third Street residence of Muscatine's famous 19th century citizen. Muscatine has two "national" historic districts, but the Clark...
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" July 21, 2009
Back from a two-week "family history and US history" vacation in the eastern US, host Dan Clark chats with producer Ron Edwin, catching up on local happenings and weaving together his travel report with praise for the "heritage tourism" that can be enjoyed right here at Muscatine.
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" July 14, 2009
Guest host Tom Savage, co-owner of Muscatine Books and More, speaks with Duffy DeFrance, "renaissance woman" storyteller and director of the Muscatine Literacy Coalition. The retired children's librarian was recently recognized by the Bi-State Literacy Council with an exemplary service award.…
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" July 7, 2009
Guest host Tom Savage, co-owner of Muscatine Books and More, speaks with local Civil War authors Lee Miller (Crocker's Brigade) and Jeff Shay (book in progress). Dan Clark is on vacation.
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" June 30, 2009
Dan Clark and guest Ann Meeker talk about the third annual "PatriArt" events June 27-July 4, organized by the Muscatine Cultural Alliance. Discussing concerts and July 4 parade and more, they chat mostly about trolley rides, horse-drawn carriage rides, and the first-ever Pearl Button paddlewheel...
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"Glen Widmer's Story"
Sermon by J. Glen Widmer at Sugar Creek Mennonite Church, Wayland, Iowa • Sunday, June 28, 2009 "Several weeks ago, one of the elders said, 'Maybe we should have some stories told over the pulpit.' And I said, 'Well, I've got some stories. I think I can do that.' And so this morning I want to…
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" airs live every Tuesday at 9:05 a.m. on KWPC AM-860, streaming via voiceofmuscatine.com. With guests and callers, host Dan Clark explores history, legend, and lore of Muscatine, Iowa USA. Sponsored by Muscatine Trolley & Tours (muscatine-tours.com) and Muscatine Books and More (muscatinebooks.com). Shows will eventually be archived back to January 2006.
HOSTED BY
Daniel G. Clark
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"Trolleys, Tales & Talk" airs live every Tuesday at 9:05 a.m. on KWPC AM-860, streaming via voiceofmuscatine.com. With guests and callers, host Dan Clark explores history, legend, and lore of Muscatine, Iowa USA. Sponsored by Muscatine Trolley & Tours (muscatine-tours.com) and Muscatine Books and...
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