'Peoria'
Podcast #10 – Abraham Lincoln’s Peoria Speech
Posted on 27. Jun, 2009 by ATLAS.
Historians generally agree that Lincoln’s Peoria speech was among the most able he ever delivered. “It is a landmark in his career,” wrote Nathaniel Wright Stephenson. “It …lays the abiding foundation of everything he thought thereafter. In this great speech, the end of his novitiate, he rings the changes on the white man’s charter of liberty.”
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Podcast #9 – Peoria: Whiskey Capital of the World
Posted on 27. Jun, 2009 by ATLAS.
Some would like to forget that it was distilleries and breweries that made Peoria a boom town where fortunes were made almost overnight. Peoria once produced more whiskey than any city in history. The whiskey tax that Peoria paid to the federal government was larger than any other district in the United States, ahead of Chicago and Cincinnati.
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Podcast #8 – Peoria: A Brief History
Posted on 27. Jun, 2009 by ATLAS.
Standing atop Grand View Drive visitors can see what the Native Americans must have seen 12,000 years ago when they first discovered the lush river valley of Peoria. In 1910, President Teddy Roosevelt coined the phrase, World’s Most Beautiful Drive, when he visited Peoria and toured the two and half miles of Grand View Drive.
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Podcast #5 – Emma Abbott
Posted on 27. Jun, 2009 by ATLAS.
Emma Abbott was a nineteenth century world-renown singer with a lovely soprano voice. She toured the United States and Europe with her own very successful opera company. The Abbott English Opera Company was known for its elaborate costumes and Emma was known for her outstanding voice and great showmanship. Perhaps her most famous role was that of “Yum Yum” in the Mikado.
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