History | Thursday, December 11,2003

Hippie’s calendar salutes 40 years of Mustangs

Everyone has his contradictions. Bob Waldmire, for example, is an unreconstructed hippie, as green as Ralph Nader. "Small is beautiful. Slow is beautiful. Old is beautiful," the itinerant artist inton

History | Thursday, December 4,2003

H.C. Latham came to the prairies of Illinois, and saw opportunity

By Bob Cavanagh

Springfield's West Side Christian Church, home to a large and thriving community of faithful worshipers, has been located on Cider Mill Lane since 1996. The capacious multi-wing facility stands like a

History | Thursday, December 4,2003

Miner turns curator to share coal’s story

By Roberta Codemo

You could say William Stone has coal in his veins. After more than three decades working for Mr. Peabody's coal company and more than a decade in retirement, Stone opened a museum devoted to -- w

History | Thursday, November 20,2003

Georg captured a time when soda salesmen went door-to-door

By Bob Cavanagh

Herbert Georg, one of the finest photographers Springfield has ever known, began his career in his father's studio, which had been established in Springfield around the turn of the last century. In 1

History | Thursday, November 20,2003

Decatur celebrates the Emancipator

By John L. Glosser

Abraham Lincoln, as a strapping young man earning his keep, split many a rail near Decatur, working for Macon County landowners such as Sheriff William Warnick. One day, Lincoln fell through th

History | Thursday, November 6,2003

"The blood of noble patriots"

By Bob Cavanagh

Last October, I picked up Illinois Times and read Job Conger's article, "Dying Colors," about the disposition of the regimental flags that had been on display in the Hall of Flags in the Howlett Build

History | Thursday, November 6,2003

If he shows, he’ll have to blow out 124 candles

By Job Conger

In 1908, in his poem "On the Building of Springfield," the celebrated poet Vachel Lindsay wrote: Let every street be made a reverent aisle, Where music grows and beauty is unchained. At the

History | Thursday, October 30,2003

More than just ol' Abe

By Bob Cavanagh

When Illinois Times offered me a column to write about local and regional history, I leapt at the opportunity without so much as a nanosecond of thoughtful consideration. Though I now consider myself