This Is My Elgin: Hometown Songs & Stories

This Is My Elgin: Hometown Songs & Stories


Latest Episodes

Elgin Summer/Winter: A Love/Hate Relationship
August 16, 2020

When it comes to Elgin weather, there's no pleasing somepeople, and curmudgeonly Sharry could be their Queen! Join her, andlegions of crickets outside her window, as she reminisces about summerdays of

Mom's North Street World
August 09, 2020

Join Sharry & her mother's memories of growing up on North Street, in the days of streetcars, the "Rag Man", and shingles from the St. Johns steeple raining down on the back yard. Featuring the song "

A Walk Through Downtown
August 02, 2020

Join us for a walk through downtown Elgin during the time of Covid as Sharry is flooded with memories and (Gasp!) even admits that the old Elgin High building is kinda cool.

West Side/East Side
July 26, 2020

Join Lifelong Elgin Westsider Sharry on her adventure to becoming an Eastsider. She first has to seek acknowledgement of her existence from all powerful ComEd and deal with horrors at the State street

Teenaged Elgin Boredom
July 12, 2020

They looked and behaved like no generation before or after. They were young. They smelled of Brylcreme, Stridex, Clearasil, and Ben Hur perfume. They drove in endless, pointless circles through downto

Bluff City Cemetery
July 05, 2020

Ya can't beat fun at the old cemetery!! Well, at least, little Sharry couldn't. Bluff City and Sharry go back a long way, and it continues to lead her to new life journeys, on the next installment of

South End Blues
June 28, 2020

  It was the Great Depression, and sometimes the Blazier Boys went to bed hungry. But they never lacked for fun and escapist entertainment with their neighborhood pals on the south end of Elgin. Tal

Dad's Treasure Hunt
June 20, 2020

In this inaugural Father's Day episode you'll learn how Dad, the Fox River, and the Elgin Police department came together to create a beautiful memory.