Steve Tarter
Contributor at WCBU-FM (Peoria, IL)
Freelance Writer and Blogger at Freelance
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Jun 5, 2024 |
wcbu.org | Steve Tarter
Gary Ebeling was a journalism student at Bradley University headed for a summer job at Yellowstone National Park in 1971. Then a Bradley administrator suggested he check out a possible opening at a local TV station. Instead of heading off to Yellowstone, Ebeling worked at WEEK-TV Channel 25 in Peoria for a decade. Tom Connor, who interviewed Ebeling for the position, was remembered as “the consummate newsperson,” said Ebeling.
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Jun 3, 2024 |
wcbu.org | Steve Tarter
She was only at Bradley for four years, the early years—from 1897 to 1901—but she brought new ideas and national prominence with her. Cited as one of “the unsung heroines of the home economics program,” Nellie Kedzie Jones “had tremendous influence and perhaps should be considered one of the many founders of home economics,” noted Nina Collins in her book on the history of home economics at Bradley University. Collins, a BU faculty member for 43 years, died in 2015.
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May 1, 2024 |
wcbu.org | Steve Tarter
In 1908, Vernon Seaver, the same man who opened the Al Fresco amusement park on the Illinois River in Peoria, opened his own Wild West show. Reliving the colorful days of cowboys and Indians, of sharpshooters on horseback, of bucking broncos and buffalo had become a popular attraction across the United States ever since Buffalo Bill Cody put a show together in the 1880s.
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Mar 14, 2024 |
wcbu.org | Steve Tarter
Dr. Richard Olson is a Peoria chiropractor who’s also a pulp magazine fan. Olson has written several books involving Nick Stihl, Private Investigator. Olson said he came by his love of film noir and detective stories at an early age, watching Humphrey Bogart and Jimmy Cagney along with movies like The Thin ManPeoria Nights, a trio of short stories that he describes as “a wild, fun rollercoaster ride,” uses Peoria of the 1930s as a backdrop.
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Mar 6, 2024 |
wcbu.org | Steve Tarter
When Tom Arbogast decided to do his master’s thesis on WWCT-FM, the Peoria rock outlet he’s listened to since 1979, it wasn’t just a labor of love for the station. “I realized when you don’t have a written history, the stories are gone,” said the 59-year-old Normal resident. Arbogast conducted over 40 interviews for the project, earning the degree last year from Illinois State University.
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