The Vision Holds The Vision holds Its ancient face Takes time to remember This wrinkled place And all that yet The twinkle remains In Springfield’s eyes The Artists’ domain. –Anita Stienstra Local poets were writing about contemporary events in the Sangamo Journal as early as the 1830s. People’s Poetry wants you to share your thoughts […]
Lee Gurga
Posted inArts & Culture
Bards of the Sangamo 7-24-03
The Lost Prairie–Lake II Covering the land of my youth I hear the laughing lake filling behind a massive concrete dam. Its fingers flood little hollows, cover brown cattails and purple violets. Sangamo history is hidden beneath the mirrored surface where names are etched on a gray stone bridge humped over the county road once […]
