South Bend Time Machine: Recent Episodes
Margaret Fosmoe and Santiago Flores
The South Bend Time Machis is podcast, hosted by South Bend Tribune reporter Margaret Fosmoe, focuses on South Bend area history and culture. A new episode posts every other Tuesday.
Episode 13 of the "South Bend Time Machine" podcast takes listeners back to the 19th century, when inventor John Comley Birdsell moved to town and founded a major factory making clover hulling machines.
The Grand Kankakee Marsh was a huge wetlands of nearly a million acres that had its headwaters just west of South Bend and extended well into Illinois.