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Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2008 09:31 pm

School days

Memories of the Decatur area’s one-room schoolhouses

By Jacqueline Jackson
Untitled Document White. Magee. Kirby. Miller. Renshaw. Columbia. Zion. Fairview. Bethel. Flood. Pleasant Grove. Oreana. Progress. Hickory Point. These are the names of 14 of the...
Thursday, Feb. 7, 2008 02:34 pm

The great debate

New look at Lincoln-Douglas contest answers longstanding questions

By Todd Volker
Untitled Document The Lincoln-Douglas Debates are like the Magna Carta or the Gadsden Purchase: You kind of know that they’re important and maybe even have a rough notion o...
Thursday, Feb. 7, 2008 01:26 pm

Monumental achievement

The Volkmanns tell the story of Springfield’s distinctive statues and monuments

By Jacqueline Jackson
Untitled Document It’s hot off the press, published Feb. 4 — and hot off the keys, cameras, and many footsteps of our own Carl (retired head of Lincoln Library) and R...
Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2008 04:26 am

Not necessarily Anytown, Ill.

Homerville’s stories are unique, but the themes are universal

By Jacqueline Jackson
Untitled Document So where’s Homerville? In Pike County, west of Jacksonville, north of Pittsfield, and close enough to the Illinois River that one character jumps in it to...
Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2007 04:57 pm

Beyond the grave

Oak Ridge Cemetery’s dead come to life in new book

By Tara McClellan McAndrew
Untitled Document As you walk through Oak Ridge Cemetery’s beautiful 365 acres, it’s easy to forget that each tombstone represents a life — a person with friend...
Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007 07:17 am

The Austen industry

A wealth of books build on Pride and Prejudice author’s legacy

By Jacqueline Jackson
Untitled Document You don’t read just anything when you’re really sick. C.S. Lewis said that at his lowest all that would suffice was The Wind in the Willows. I ...
Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2007 06:28 am

Grave robbers and academics

Fascinating book recounts the struggle for rich cache of Indian artifacts

By William Furry
Untitled Document The subtitle of David LaVere’s Looting Spiro Mounds is a footnote to perhaps the greatest public grave robbery in history: Howard Carter’s 1924 disc...
Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2007 03:41 am

Literary sleuthing

Clever story will leave you dizzy with literary references

By Jacqueline Jackson
Untitled Document Recently, during my family excavations, I unearthed a homemade booklet, “Books Read in 1900,” belonging to my grandmother. She’d have been 30....
Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2007 01:15 am

On reading well

Sara Nelson shares her love of books in a chatty, witty style

By Jacqueline Jackson
Untitled Document I resisted opening this book, even though it was an autographed gift from the author’s sister-in-law, a longtime Springfieldian. I thought that it was ano...
Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007 09:50 am

His secret reasons

Biography of grandfather reveals dirty laundry

By Job Conger
Untitled Document Politics beats a big drum in Springfield, and those disinclined to march to that drum often seek more harmonious cadences elsewhere. This was true for Mark Fout...
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