The shy ones slink around your shrubs, the longtime residents stroll leisurely through your yard and the tame ones arrive promptly at mealtime every day. They are all community cats, a label for unowned felines — either tame or feral (wild), living outdoors. And chances are, that healthy outdoor cat is just where he wants […]
Evelyn Taylor
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A new history of New Salem
If not for Abraham Lincoln, New Salem would have been just another frontier community lost to history. Instead, the people, places, and events live on in books, articles, plays, and a reconstructed village aptly named Lincoln’s New Salem State Historic Site. Founded in 1829 adjacent to a mill on the Sangamon River, New Salem grew […]
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‘A man who could do anything’
Kevin Hyatt Kevin Hyatt could do anything, or so it seemed. The 200-plus relatives, friends and co-workers who gathered for a celebration of his life three weeks after his July 5 death knew that firsthand. When one of the speakers asked the gathering at the Firefighters-Postal Lake Club, “How many of you had your houses […]
