At the May 29 Springfield Business Alliance noon luncheon the noted architect and planner Douglas Farr will present “Sustainable Urbanism,” a program that illustrates the practices that have become more and more in vogue since Al Gore’s release of An Inconvenient Truth three years ago. Up until then, although some had embraced the “green movement” […]
James A. Johnston
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Back to the land
When Joseph Standing Bear Schranz discovered an arrowhead last October lying on a forest floor near Carlinville, he knew an eight-year-old dream was about to come true. How the White Earth Ojibwa ended up in this patch of prairie woodland is not only a remarkable story of his own determination–it’s a testament to a singular […]
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Return of the Kickapoo
On June 14 and 15, for the sixth year in a row, the Grand Village of the Kickapoo Park–a few miles northeast of LeRoy, about an hour away from Springfield–will be the scene of color, sound, and dancing, as many from the four directions of Turtle Island (as North America is known) gather for an […]
