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Feature | Thursday, February 10,2005
{after 1st article on article listing} That high lonesome sound
When Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated into his
first term, the country did not know much about its new president.
Asked to describe his education for a biographical sketch in
Feature | Thursday, December 9,2004
Home for the holidays
Most of us have at least one book lover on our holiday shopping
lists. This year, get creative and think beyond bestsellers. The following titles
were chosen because of their local ties -- the
Books | Thursday, November 18,2004
Winged messenger: Going postal with Terry Pratchett
Please allow me to introduce Mr. Moist von Lipwig, hero of Going Postal,
Terry Pratchett's latest novel in his Discworld series. But before we go
any further, a confession: I am a Pratchett lat
Books | Thursday, November 4,2004
The first George W.
First initial, last name. More than six feet tall. In his early 20s he made
a name for himself in battle, but accounts of his heroism would later be questioned.
Well-born, he nevertheless incre
Books | Thursday, October 28,2004
Unwrapping herself and finding the heart within
The last poem in Springfield poet Siobhan Pitchford's new book, Through
the Longing Daze, employs a pun in its title: "At Daze End." The poems preceding
it are much concerned with the comings a
Books | Thursday, October 7,2004
An eye for detail brings old Decatur to life
One hundred years ago, you could get more than a drink of water on Decatur's
Water Street. As Dan Guillory notes in Decatur, a photographic history
of Springfield's neighbor to the east, the th
Books | Thursday, September 2,2004
Before and after the fall
"Consider Icarus, pasting those sticky wings on, testing that strange little
tug at his shoulder blade, and think of that first flawless moment over the
lawn of the labyrinth. Think of the diff
Books | Thursday, August 12,2004
Rally ’round the books, boys
"'Arbolist' ... Look up the word. I don't know, maybe I made it up. Anyway,
it's an arbo-tree-ist, somebody who knows about trees." -- President George
W. Bush, USA Today, Aug. 21, 2001
Little
Books | Thursday, July 22,2004
Paging Elvis and other rock & roll fantasies
Did King James I commission Shakespeare to translate the Psalms for the now-famous
version of the Bible? A case is made for that transaction in R. Gary Patterson's
new book about rock & rol
Books | Thursday, June 24,2004
The politics of war
Political potboilers have always scored high on summer-reading lists, and
Bush's War for Reelection: Iraq, the White House, and the People seems
to qualify. Written by investigative reporter Ja
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