"Last One Out of the Quad Cities, Turn Out the Lights" radio drama collection
Scope and Contents
The “Last One Out of the Quad Cities, Turn Out the Lights” radio drama collection, 2004, is organized into three series. The Interview transcripts series contains 27 interview transcripts and a coinciding “Interviewee Life History Form” for each interviewee. Seven of these transcripts are closed to researchers until 2079. The Interview Tapes series is made up of twenty-six audiocassette tape recordings of the interviews. Five of these audiocassettes are closed to researchers until 2079. The Radio Play series contains two programs from the 8 November 2004 performance of the radio play.
Dates
- Creation: 2004
Conditions Governing Access
Seven interviews transcripts and five audiocassettes closed to researchers 75 years from the date of creation. Audiovisual materials may be inaccessible pending reformatting. Contact Special Collections for more information.
Conditions Governing Use
Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from Augustana College Special Collections and the copyright holder.
Historical Note
Students in Augustana College professor Lendol Calder’s spring 2004 history seminar interviewed Quad Cities residents about the 1980s economic recession. The recession negatively impacted the farming industry, affecting the large local economy that was based on farm machinery manufacturing. The series of layoffs, unemployment, and the overall attitude of the era are illuminated through interviews with several people who were impacted by the recession, from former factory workers to community leaders. Specific events discussed include the closing of the International Harvester plant and the lighting of the Centennial Bridge. Scott Magelssen, then a theater professor at Augustana, compiled the interviews into a radio play that aired on Augustana’s WAUG radio station 8 November 2004. In 2007, further efforts on this project resulted in a book titled Lights Out! The Quad Cities Community in Crisis.
The following individuals participated in this project:
Calder, Lendol.
Magelssen, Scott.
Buresh, Scott.
Derber, Jesse.
Fairchild, Chad.
Ferguson, Trent.
Furlong, Matt.
Georgacakis, Justin.
Grana, Stephanie.
Isbell, Brad.
Kirkpatrick, Randy.
Nagel, Beth.
Pillard, Jake.
Pokora, Jon.
Scott, Andrew.
Stone, Eric.
Thomas, Jim.
Tracey, Katie.
Wilkins, Brandon.
Brown, Mel.
Carnithan, David.
Carinthan, Diane.
Castro, Lupe.
Foster, Nancy.
Garcia, Maryann.
Gardner, John.
Goldstein, Jeff.
Hart, Thomas.
Hoyt, Timothy.
Keppy, Bruce.
Kerr, Jim.
Mason, Sue.
Perez, Jesse.
Phillips, John.
Pillard, Allen.
Reeg, Stanley.
Renk, Bill.
Tracey, Tom.
Vallejo, Rudy.
Wendell, Mark.
Extent
0.6 Cubic Feet (/ 2 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Students in Augustana College professor Lendol Calder’s spring 2004 history seminar interviewed Quad Cities residents about the 1980s economic recession. The recession negatively impacted the farming industry, affecting the large local economy that was based on farm machinery manufacturing. The “Last One Out of the Quad Cities, Turn Out the Lights” radio drama collection, 2004, includes interview transcripts and audiocassette recordings of interviews.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Received from Lendol Calder, circa 2004.
Processing Information
Processed by Kirsten Mathisen, 2013. Updated by Atticus Garrison, November 2015.
Subject
- International Harvester Company of America (Organization)
- Title
- "Last One Out of the Quad Cities, Turn Out the Lights" radio drama collection, 2004.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Atticus Garrison
- Date
- November 2015
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Augustana College Special Collections Repository
639 38th Street
Thomas Tredway Library
Rock Island Illinois 61201 United States
specialcollections@augustana.edu