The Middle West US Podcast

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Thanks for supporting Middle West US through our launch year! We'll be pausing soon for the holiday season, but there will be plenty more content coming in the new year.

The Grayslake Candy Counter

Katie Brethorst-Stockwell, deputy director of the Grayslake Heritage Center [https://www.villageofgrayslake.com/828/Heritage-Museum] in Grayslake, Illinois, joins us to talk about a candy counter from the Grayslake Five and Dime. Learn more about the five and dime and its owners, Evie and Winnie, who were business partners, best friends, and fixtures in their community. (image courtesy of the Grayslake Historical Society)

The Midwest in Artifacts: Abraham Lincoln's Final Decree

Ashlee Anderson, public historian and museum educator, joins us to discuss Abraham Lincoln's last decree and why it is intimately tied to the Midwest.

The Midwest in Artifacts: The B25 Bomber

Eldon Yeakel, Curator of Collections at the Wyandotte County Museum near Kansas City, Kansas joins us to discuss a World War II Era B-25 tail section stabilizer and rudder assembly and why the B-25 is so connected to the Midwest.

The Midwest in Artifacts: The Clovis Point

Brooke Morgan, Curator of Anthropology at the Illinois State Museum, joins us to discuss a Clovis point from Illinois, a Midwestern artifact that is approximately 13,000 years old.  See This Week's Artifact [https://middlewest.us/podcasts/]