Kioaka’s eyes are moist, partly from the blustery winter wind and his advancing years but mostly because of the deep sadness he feels as he ponders what must be done. His people, the Mississippians, have lived here for more than 500 years. Before them, Woodland natives occupied this land. High on the bluff, the giant […]
Mike Taylor
Mike Taylor is a retired state employee and self-propelled wilderness wanderer. “A navigational interlude, or how we’ve gone geo-crazy,” co-written with Ed Gutierrez, was published in the Feb. 5 edition of Illinois Times.
