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Retired and needing a project to fill his time, Steve Meyer sits down once a week to discuss various people, places, and moments throughout history. Have a topic you want Steve to talk about? Email him at meyerfacts@gmail.com.

  1. Bonus Episode: Paper Valley

    05/24/2024

    Bonus Episode: Paper Valley

    Steve talks with David Allen and Susan Campbell about how the book was written and why the 20 year delay.

    8 min
  2. The Environmental Success Story of Our Time

    05/22/2024

    The Environmental Success Story of Our Time

    During the entire 1990s, the potential removal of PCBs from the Fox River hung in the balance. The book is Paper Valley : The fight for the Fox River Cleanup. Steve talks with the authors David Allen and Susan Campbell who were in the middle of the fight and who dedicated a decade of their professional lives to help all of us.

    37 min
  3. John Deitz and the Battle of Cameron Dam

    05/08/2024

    John Deitz and the Battle of Cameron Dam

    It's the early 1900s. While lumber barons and railroad companies exploited Wisconsin resources and citizens; socialists and progressives fought back. One individual who fueled the imagination of the public was John Deitz. Listen to Steve interview local Northwest Wisconsin historian, Tamera Schutz about this David v. Goliath story.

    31 min
  4. Epilogue to Leo Burt & the Sterling Hall Bombing

    04/10/2024

    Epilogue to Leo Burt & the Sterling Hall Bombing

    Steve follows up to listener questions and comments from the previous podcast.

    24 min
  5. Leo Burt & the Bombing of Sterling Hall

    03/20/2024

    Leo Burt & the Bombing of Sterling Hall

    In August 1970 a powerful fertilizer bomb was detonated on the UW Madison Campus. The only perpetrator not apprehended was Leo Burt. Where is he? Steve talks with former federal prosecutor John Vaudreuil about the outstanding warrant for the arrest of Leo Burt.

    30 min
  6. Herbert Hoover and the Mississippi River Flood of 1927

    02/28/2024

    Herbert Hoover and the Mississippi River Flood of 1927

    Steve talks about America's biggest and deadliest river flood in history and the resulting impact on U.S. history.

    27 min
  7. Project ELF

    02/07/2024

    Project ELF

    Steve talks about a former US Navy communication facility in Northern Wisconsin and the UP of Michigan with Prof. Steven Walton from Michigan Tech University. How the Navy almost turned the entire northwest quarter of the State of Wisconsin into an electrical grid in order to communicate through saltwater with its subs.

    31 min
  8. Wisconsin and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: the story of Joshua Glover, Part 2

    01/24/2024

    Wisconsin and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: the story of Joshua Glover, Part 2

    Steve continues his interview with Margo Kirchner and discusses the response by the Wisconsin legal system to Sherman Booth's role in aiding Joshua Glover.

    26 min
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Retired and needing a project to fill his time, Steve Meyer sits down once a week to discuss various people, places, and moments throughout history. Have a topic you want Steve to talk about? Email him at meyerfacts@gmail.com.

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  • Creator
    Steve Meyer
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2024
  • Episodes
    39
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Steve Meyer
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