Forgotten stories from America's small towns.Hosted by Shane Waters2 min episode
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Show Notes
Every week, Hometown History takes you to one real American town, a place you can find on a map and drive through, and tells the story it left behind. Shane Waters builds each one from the record: the letters, the old newspapers, the people who were there.
In this trailer: the Peshtigo fire in Wisconsin, 1871. Everett Ruess heading into the canyons near Escalante, Utah, in 1934. The great diamond hoax in San Francisco. And Shawneetown, Illinois, the town that kept building its levee higher.
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Shane Waters, Founder & Host
Produced by Myths & Malice
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