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A Hell of a Job: Carl Sandburg's Eastland
Jun 18, 2026
28m 22s
The Clue in the Old Almanac: Solving an Eastland Mystery
Jun 11, 2026
31m 26s
The Scars That Wouldn't Heal: Two Priests, Two Parishes
Jun 4, 2026
38m 13s
A City of Sorrow, a Voice of Fire — Edith Franklin Wyatt & the Eastland
May 28, 2026
32m 46s
SPECIAL DELIVERY - A Messenger Boy’s Path to the Eastland
May 21, 2026
36m 16s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/18/26 |  A Hell of a Job: Carl Sandburg's Eastland | Send us Fan Mail As the 111th anniversary of the Eastland disaster approaches, the podcast turns toward the writers, poets, artists, and witnesses who captured the tragedy in their own words. Their voices, once alive with urgency, have too often been pushed aside as the Eastland’s story has been retold, revised, and diluted over the years. This episode focuses on Carl Sandburg: poet, journalist, musician, biographer of Lincoln, chronicler of working people, and one of the fiercest literary v... | 28m 22s | ||||||
| 6/11/26 |  The Clue in the Old Almanac: Solving an Eastland Mystery✨ | Eastland Disasterhistorical interviews+3 | — | Hawthorne, A City of Sorrow: Community Hushed by Death | — | Eastland DisasterEdith Franklin Wyatt+3 | — | 31m 26s | |
| 6/4/26 |  The Scars That Wouldn't Heal: Two Priests, Two Parishes✨ | historyreligion+4 | — | Mary, Queen of Heaven Church | Cicero, Illinois | Eastland disasterFather Albert J. Dedera+5 | — | 38m 13s | |
| 5/28/26 |  A City of Sorrow, a Voice of Fire — Edith Franklin Wyatt & the Eastland✨ | Eastland Disasterhistorical narrative+4 | — | — | HawthorneChicago | Eastland DisasterEdith Franklin Wyatt+5 | — | 32m 46s | |
| 5/21/26 |  SPECIAL DELIVERY - A Messenger Boy’s Path to the Eastland✨ | biographyEastland disaster+3 | — | — | ChicagoBohemian | Eastland disasterCharles Borovansky+3 | — | 36m 16s | |
| 5/14/26 |  One Survivor. Two Surnames. A 1940 Eastland Time Capsule✨ | Eastland disasterhistorical research+3 | — | Cicero Life | — | Eastland disasterCharles Borvansky+3 | — | 27m 27s | |
| 5/7/26 |  The "Elephant," the Eastland, and the Catholic Columbian Discovery✨ | Eastland disasterfamily history+3 | — | Catholic Columbian | — | Eastland disasterChicago River+3 | — | 34m 25s | |
| 4/29/26 |  Louella Parsons: Ink, Influence, and the Eastland✨ | gossip columnistscelebrity culture+3 | — | — | — | Louella Parsonsgossip+4 | — | 31m 59s | |
| 4/23/26 |  Beyond the Capsizing: Following Four Eastland Survivors✨ | Eastland disastersurvivor stories+3 | — | — | Chicago | Eastland disastersurvivors+3 | — | 30m 56s | |
| 4/15/26 |  Eight Eastland Survivors—On the Record, Off the Radar✨ | Eastland Disastersurvivor stories+4 | — | SS Eastland | Chicago | Eastland Disastersurvivor stories+5 | — | 30m 21s | |
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| 4/9/26 |  The Ship That Rolled, the Stories That Didn't: More Voices from the Eastland✨ | Eastland disastereyewitness accounts+3 | — | Dubuque Telegraph-Herald | — | Eastland disastereyewitness accounts+3 | — | 27m 46s | |
| 4/2/26 |  The Return of the Omitted: History Strikes Back!✨ | historyresearch discovery+3 | — | — | — | Eastland disasterhistory+3 | — | 34m 29s | |
| 3/26/26 |  Still Black and Blue: Eastland Survivors Speak - A Lost Magazine Recovered✨ | Eastland disasterhistorical accounts+3 | — | SS EastlandForest Leaves | Forest Park, Illinois | Eastland disastersurvivor accounts+5 | — | 29m 20s | |
| 3/19/26 |  The Teen Deckhand and the Pastor: Two Restored Eastland Accounts✨ | historiographyhistory+4 | — | — | — | historiographyhistory+3 | — | 33m 36s | |
| 3/12/26 |  Bolts & Bylines: Frankenstein’s Ghost in the Eastland Story✨ | historyfamily stories+4 | — | — | — | RootsTech 2026Marlee Matlin+4 | — | 31m 03s | |
| 3/5/26 |  Rescuers in the Shadows: A Milestone, a Mystery Photo, and the Brothers Petroskey✨ | Eastland disasterrescue+4 | — | — | Chicago River | Eastland disasterWalter Petroskey+5 | — | 40m 31s | |
| 2/26/26 |  A Beautiful Magazine and a Missing Hero - Selective History at Work✨ | narrative controlmemory politics+4 | — | Western Electric | Clark Street Bridge | Western ElectricEastland disaster+6 | — | 28m 13s | |
| 2/19/26 |  From the Iroquois to the Eastland: One Firefighter, Two Catastrophes✨ | firefightinghistorical tragedies+4 | — | Chicago Fire Department | — | firefighterChicago+5 | — | 27m 37s | |
| 2/12/26 |  Checklist History vs. a Life Remembered | Send us Fan Mail Our story opens with a puzzle: an independent researcher uncovers a sparse, single-source biography of an Eastland hero that reads more like a checklist than a life. They reach out to me and pose a challenge, “Surely, there is more to this person. Can you uncover it?” Challenge accepted. Soon, I found Bernard Napolski, our hero who saved more than 40 lives during the Eastland Disaster. A 1916 announcement of his engagement in a Chicago Polish-language newspaper offered many t... | 29m 59s | ||||||
| 2/5/26 |  A Mourning Veil and a Missing Address — After the Eastland | Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I bring to a close my journey through Edna, His Wife by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Margaret Ayer Barnes, a novel that paints a hauntingly intimate portrait of a family navigating life in the shadow of the 1915 Eastland Disaster. This final section steps past the catastrophe itself and into the tangled aftermath: the paperwork of loss, the quiet unraveling of marriages, and the daily rituals of mourning that linger long after the headlines fade. Through Edn... | 32m 48s | ||||||
| 1/29/26 |  From Page to Stage: A Pulitzer Prize–Winning Author, an Actor, and the Eastland Disaster | Send us Fan Mail A single newspaper review from 1938 turned this story on its head. Digging through Chronicling America, I stumbled upon a mention of Cornelia Otis Skinner's one-woman show—a performance inspired by Margaret Ayer Barnes's novel Edna, His Wife—and it included a "sensational scene" set on the Eastland. That brief reference shatters the myth that Chicago's 1915 disaster simply faded from memory. It never vanished. It lingered in novels, on stage, in film, and in poems. I re... | 1h 06m 21s | ||||||
| 1/22/26 |  “Catastrophe on the Chicago River” - the Cermak Connection | Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I finish reading “Catastrophe on the Chicago River,” a Czech-language article by Josef Mach Sr. from 1916. The piece delivers a searing, firsthand account of the Eastland Disaster’s impact on Chicago’s Czech community: families shattered by the loss of multiple members, a grieving husband driven to despair after losing his wife, and three hundred funerals unfolding in just three days. But then, an unexpected detail rises to the surface. Near the end of the ar... | 30m 13s | ||||||
| 1/15/26 |  Catastrophe on the Chicago River — Part 2: The Archive Finds Keep Coming | Send us Fan Mail We journey deeper into "Catastrophe on the Chicago River," a century-old chronicle of the Eastland Disaster as seen through the eyes of Chicago's Czech community. Josef Mach Sr. crafts a living, breathing account of the capsized excursion ship, trading headlines and statistics for the intimate details of lives upended. This narrative names names, lists addresses and funeral halls, and traces the ache that rippled through the close-knit Czech neighborhoods of Chicago. As we m... | 37m 01s | ||||||
| 1/8/26 |  When Research Starts Talking Back | Send us Fan Mail When Research Starts Talking Back What happens when your research doesn’t just sit there quietly… but starts nudging you, whispering, insisting you dig deeper? In this episode, I try something a little different. After sharing my 2025 retrospective, The Search Goes On — Coincidence. Clarity. Resolve., I handed that episode to Google’s NotebookLM—an AI tool many genealogists are exploring—and let it analyze the work. The result? Two AI research companions, Eva and Max (Noteboo... | 21m 42s | ||||||
| 1/1/26 |  The Search Goes On — Coincidence. Clarity. Resolve. | Send us Fan Mail A single number can shape how we remember—until new evidence asks us to look again. This episode takes you inside another year of research on the people of the Eastland disaster, where a repeated death toll gives way to an evolving, documented estimate. I share how two overlooked victims surfaced through archival work, and why adding their names is crucial for families, historians, and anyone who believes facts should lead the story—not follow it. This journey isn't just arch... | 30m 45s | ||||||
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