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A meditation on the passage of time

John Knoepfles new book of poetry

The bitter cold subsided and we finally got a nice snow. I went walking under the streetlights with four-year-old Xavier. We caught snowflakes on our tongues, found sticks to scratch our names in th...

Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009 02:12 am

The biggest Lincoln birthday present of all

The Great Man comes to life in a new two-volume biography

By Todd Volker

Proud parent Michael Burlingame has delivered to us a fine 8 lb., 1 oz. baby just in time for the Lincoln Bicentennial. Burlingame, professor emeritus at Connecticut College, has been exp...

Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2009 01:48 pm

Memoirs of Judge Wood, our man at Wounded Knee

The late Harlington Wood, Jr.s remarkable life

By Larry Golden

Many people in Springfield, who hold a variety of views about politics and law, have praised the late Harlington Wood as an individual of integrity and accomplishment. Wood’s memoirs, An Unmar...

Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2008 01:54 pm

A family tells its story, and you can tell yours

By Jacqueline Jackson

Here’s a book you’ll love. I’m stating up front it’s by a good friend, Rosie Roach Miller, who grew up in Belleville, graduated from Millikin, married a vet from Springfield w...

Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008 02:06 pm

The end of the world is just the beginning

By Jacqueline Jackson

When I looked up Internet data on this new book, lo, I found a whole Rune Universe out there, lots of materials, much associated with this author. After a bunch of entries came this volum...

Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2008 01:20 am

Could you confess to a crime you did not commit?

False confession happens more often than you think. Heres how.

By Larry Golden

In the summer of 1989, a 19-year-old Waverly woman, Melissa Koontz, disappeared late at night after leaving work on the far west-side of Springfield. What followed was a series of events in ...

Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008 04:17 pm

A new form of Southern slavery led to Northern race riots

Forced black labor in U.S. industries gave rise to virulent racism

By Carl Oblinger

During and immediately after Reconstruction in the South, the same entrepreneurs and bankers who had built the Confederacy's munitions and armament plants during the Civil War ...

Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2008 01:22 pm

My mother, the columnist, journalist and historian

Springfield author remembers a Naperville icon

By Jacqueline Jackson

Why would Naperville commission a life-size bronze statue of an elderly woman in a cardigan, place it on a downtown stone bench, and have a city ceremony in 1999 in her honor? Why, in a 200...

Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008 07:45 am

Springfield aviation makes history

New photo book reflects authors passion for planes

By Jolonda Young

To say that Job Conger is into airplanes would be an understatement. In fact, Conger's interest in aviation could easily be considered a love affair. It began with him photograph...

Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008 04:46 am

Thought leader offers seminars here

You don't have to go along with the crowd

By Kitty Wrigley

Sometimes the evening news reminds me of a decades-old school incident when My Group was unkind to Their Group, to put it mildly. I have excuses about immaturity and adolescent angst, but th...