• McHistory

  • By: WGLT
  • Podcast

  • Summary

  • McHistory goes back in time to explore big moments and small stories from McLean County history. McHistory episodes can be heard periodically on WGLT's Sound Ideas. The series is produced in partnership with the McLean County Museum of History.
    2024 WGLT
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Episodes
  • McHistory: The Sudden Change
    Nov 4 2024

    McHistory - The Sudden Change, chronicling a huge temperature drop in the winter of 1936 that unsettled settlers and led to stories and tall tales for generations.

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    8 mins
  • Ange Milner was much more than ISNU's first librarian
    Aug 7 2024

    It takes a beloved or significant figure in the history of an institution to name a building after that person. Illinois State University ended up naming two libraries for Angeline Vernon Milner.

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    8 mins
  • 'Cousin Emmy' was a pioneer of country and roots music
    Jul 24 2024

    Bloomington-Normal and McLean County are not really known as a cradle of country music. But there was this one time...in the 1930s. Cynthia May Carver, better known by her stage name “Cousin Emmy,” was a pioneer in country and roots music during the golden age of radio from the 1930s to the 1960s.

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    7 mins

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