You must meet Jackie
Meet Jackie Jackson. If you don’t know her, you should. She has mentored many a writer. Maybe you. She’s written an array of children’s books over the years and tons of interesting and funny stories about growing up on a Wisconsin dairy farm. Since retiring, she has finally sat down and concentrated on getting those big books…
Christopher Harris wants new trial
Alleging judicial error, Christopher Harris, convicted in May of murdering five members of the Gee family with a tire iron, wants a new trial. Meanwhile, the Logan County circuit clerk’s office last Friday released photos of Harris taken the day after the slayings, hours before the bodies were found in the Gees’ home in Beason,…
Between The Cracks:Texas Trucker Speed Fiends Tonight!
Once again, Faingold at Large proudly presents “Between the Cracks” – the recurring feature designed to shine a light onto Springfield-area bands, and all in their own words, to boot. Join us, won’t you? There’s gold between them thar cracks! Today’s BTC spotlight lands on local rock and roll madmen Texas Trucker Speed Fiends who…
America
Ah, another Fourth is gone – the ritual burning of dead animals, flags made in China waved by just folks celebrating our glorious victories over the world’s peasant armies, speeches by people convinced that if the Founders were alive today they sit at their table in the cafeteria and not yours, all experienced through an…
Literary ladies of Lincolnland
Mark your calendars to head over to the Vachel Lindsay home tomorrow (Sat.) at 2 p.m. when Nancy Chapin will present Springfield’s Early Literary Societies. Not to harp on one place so much (though haven’t met anyone yet who doesn’t like harp music), but when they’ve got the goods, you can’t help but want some…
Quotes for the day
While I’m in a patriotic mood, I thought I’d pass along a few quotes from the Founding Fathers, courtesy of David Atkins over at Hullabaloo. Among them: James Madison: “The growing wealth acquired by [corporations] never fails to be a source of abuses. Thomas Jefferson: I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy…
Tonight: Fare thee well, A. D.
A. D. Carson has been a leading member of Springfield’s literary, educational and musical communities for years. He published the novel Cold in 2011, followed by The City, a book of shorter pieces, this past October. Carson has been writer-in-residence at Benedictine University and an English teacher at Springfield High School. He is also a…
A city moving backward
More questions about the Jefferson Crossing project. * The project will require subsidy in the form of $9.2 million in tax increment financing — believed to be the largest single TIF award in Springfield’s history. Is creating buildable land in a floodplain necessary in a city that has thousands of acres of unbuilt or underused…
