Minding the store at New Salem

We bring the past alive. But we can’t keep doing it with volunteers alone.

By Peter Ellertsen

Since the full-time interpreters were laid off in August, I’ve been minding the store at Lincoln’s New Salem State Historic Site. For 10 years now, I’ve been a volunteer interpret

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Guest Opinion | Wednesday, March 26,2008

The prophet Jeremiah

Like Huckabee, we should cut Obama’s preacher some slack

By Peter Ellertsen

Untitled Document We won’t know who wins this year’s presidential election till November, of course, but I can declare one winner already: Mike Huckabee’s defen

Guest Opinion | Wednesday, January 16,2008

Tales of Sir Galahad

Obama’s premature coronation is the stuff of medieval morality tales

By Peter Ellertsen

Untitled Document Once upon a time, in a distant land called Iowa, the media anointed U.S. Sen. Barack Obama crown prince of all the realm — well, at least, of all the Demo