The Bix Beiderbecke porch party is a longstanding Davenport Public Library tradition. Yet, this is the first time we’ve recorded it for you good folks of the World Wide Web. Enjoy the music of Don Estes and the Prairie Ramblers here in DPLCast #10
Alvin Holst calls Bettendorf, Iowa home. There was a time he was just as comfortable zipping around WWII battlefields in his “peep”. Enjoy his stories of shrapnel and outlook on life in DPLCast #9.
Peculiar thing about Kamikaze planes, they tended to decrease the number of available carriers for fighter planes to land on. That didn’t stop local WWII veteran Charles Milnes, who fashioned runways in the water out of steel sheets. Enjoy this story and Gen. Douglas McArthur’s lack of fear of incoming artillery shells, in Davenport Public Library Podcast #8.
That was the story when it came time for Marjorie Purcell to have her World War II nuptials in the beloved Quad Cities.
She feels that folks then had a better attitude about dealing with the struggles of life. Listen as she “rations” out her anecdotes about living in the QC as the bride of a WWII airman and an intelligence officer.
The Battle of Manila’s street fighting is considered by some to be the bloodiest fighting of World War II, second only to the Battle of Dresden. A Quad-Citian named Dale Elliott was lucky to have lived through it. Enjoy his story of ground fighting in the Pacific Theatre.
Lupe Hernandez with the Iowa Student Loan College Planning Center pops by to talk about College & Financial Planning for Teens and their parents.
Debbie Bartman from the University of Illinois Extension Office popped by as part of Money Smart Week Quad Cities. She explained what documents citizens should keep and which should be shredded to protect their identities. We recorded the talk in case you couldn’t make it…
Imagine being so valuable to Uncle Sam he gives you an unlimited expense account and has bombers dispatched across the ocean just to pick you up. All this, and none of the rules that restrict enlisted men.
Welcome to the life of a plucky and resourceful Air Force Civilian Technician and Quad Citian named Harold Labonte, in this week’s Davenport Public Library Podcast #3.
I may never be able to personally relate to the miracle of childbirth, but I think I can say with some confidence that not many area women have had to contend with Nazis sprinkling the neighborhood with TNT at the time of giving birth.
Enjoy the personal anecdotes of being an Englishwoman married to an American GI after a whirlwind courtship.
Meet area veteran Joan McAdams in this week’s Davenport Public Library Podcast episode #2.
The Davenport Public Library is happy to announce the creation of our own weekly-ish podcast. The intent of the program is to focus on the Quad-Cities community and library issues in general.
Some of our podcasts will present the highlights of interviews conducted with local area veterans as part of the World War II/Korean War oral history project conducted . Our very first podcast looks at the experiences of area veteran Robert Rubley as a minesweeper (15:01).
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