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Roald Tweet is a Professor Emeritus of English at Augustana College and a popular historian of the upper Mississippi River. He holds a masters degree in English and a Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of Chicago. He creates three-minute vignettes about local history for his radio series Rock Island Lines which earned the Illinois Humanities Council’s Lawrence W. Towner Award in 2001. He earned the Studs Terkel Humanities Service Award in 2006.