“Lutheran high school as hellmouth?” is a headline that I’d hoped to read when I heard that the ground at 3500 W. Washington beneath Springfield’s new Lutheran High School opened up beneath it in 2022. Disappointingly, no bloody hand had thrust up out of its grave to pull innocents down into the bowels of the […]
James Krohe Jr.
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Krohe khronicles
In “As the crow is bent” (perhaps my worst title ever), I explored the ramifications of my unusual surname. Unusual, that is, outside Cass County and environs. My father, on his travels around the country, would study local phone books in search of other Krohes and found none. I understand the name is uncommon in Germany […]
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The real Jim Krohe
James Krohe Sr. PHOTO COURTESY JAMES KROHE SR. I can only barely keep time, but while I could never be a drummer I love to talk with my father about the drummer’s craft. He’s worked as a professional musician for 76 years now – he’ll turn 90 this week – which means he’s been supplying […]
