Dark La Crosse Stories
Dark La Crosse Stories

Dark La Crosse Stories

La Crosse Tribune and La Crosse Public Library

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Podcast looks at the seedier side of La Crosse, WI, history.  To see video versions of these episodes featuring historic photos and headlines >> http://bit.ly/DarkLaxPlaylist

Recent Episodes

Dark La Crosse Stories Episode 67: Eye for an Eye
DEC 18, 2024
Dark La Crosse Stories Episode 67: Eye for an Eye
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">The life and times of Walter Goetzinger, one of the most extraordinary musicians in La Crosse history, continues with a double homicide in Milwaukee involving his son and family friends from La Crosse.</span></p>
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22 MIN
Dark La Crosse Stories Episode 66: The Rivoli's Blind Organist
DEC 10, 2024
Dark La Crosse Stories Episode 66: The Rivoli's Blind Organist
<p>The life and times of Walter Goetzinger, one of the most extraordinary musicians in La Crosse history, including a theater fire, a messy divorce, and his role in the erection of the Rivoli Theatre.&nbsp;</p>
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18 MIN
Dark La Crosse Stories Episode 65: Cornering a Killer
OCT 15, 2024
Dark La Crosse Stories Episode 65: Cornering a Killer
<p>A young farmer kills three brothers near Austin, Minnesota and goes on the run for 12 days with George Brooks' bloodhounds and a <em>La Crosse Tribune</em> reporter hot on his trail.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
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14 MIN
Dark La Crosse Stories Episode 64: The Funeral Home Fight
OCT 1, 2024
Dark La Crosse Stories Episode 64: The Funeral Home Fight
<p>What happens when an unsavory business opens in a historic home in the heart of an upper-class residential district?</p>
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19 MIN
Dark La Crosse Stories Epsidode 63: St. Mary's Boarding School
SEP 17, 2024
Dark La Crosse Stories Epsidode 63: St. Mary's Boarding School
<p><span data-teams="true"><span class="ui-provider aib aic zu aid aie aif aig aih aii aij aik ail aim ain aio aip aiq air ais ait aiu aiv aiw aix aiy aiz aja ajb ajc ajd aje ajf ajg ajh aji" dir="ltr">In 1883, the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration in La Crosse opened the St. Mary's Indian School, a boarding school that was on the reservation of the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa Indians with the mission to convert Ojibwe children to Catholicism, a history the FSPA now must reconcile with the survivors and descendants of St. Mary's.</span></span></p>
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31 MIN