PHOTO COURTESY HOOGLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS Agnes of God is being presented at the Hoogland Center for the Arts in Theater III. You may remember the gripping film with Meg Tilly and Ann Bancroft. The stage drama follows the same storyline about a novice nun who gives birth and insists that the dead child […]
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Meal and music
Taste of Downtown is calling your taste buds to come on out and play. Eat some spectacular food such as Kimchi pork tacos, maple bacon on a stick or fried oyster po’ boys, cooked up from some of the best local restaurants in town, while listening to some amazing music. Downtown Springfield, Inc. once again […]
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Old-fashioned fun
PHOTO BY TREVOR MILLER Based on a well attended 1842 Fourth of July gathering hosted by the Broadwell family, Clayville Historic Site is re-creating the historic event and inviting you. The daylong soirée features old-fashioned fun with music, horseshoes, softball and bocce ball. Bring your own softball equipment, all other sports equipment is provided. Also, […]
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Downtown delight
PHOTO BY METRO CREATIVE CONNECTION Capital City Celebration, July 3-5 in downtown Springfield, offers food, drink, free music, activities and fireworks! Capitol Ave. between Fourth and Fifth streets will have a stage with Lick Creek performing at 8 p.m. on July 3, with food and drinks available at 7 p.m. On July 4, a family […]
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Fresh food
PHOTO BY METRO CREATIVE CONNECTION Those living on the east side of Springfield will be privy to fresh produce that will be available each Monday through Sept. 29 in the parking lot of the Sangamon County Department of Public Heath, 2833 South Grand Ave. East. The East Side Farmers Market opens at 8:30 a.m. on […]
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Field day
PHOTO BY DOUG CARR Families will have the opportunity to discover where food from their dinner plates comes from during Amazing Agriculture at the Illinois State Museum Saturday, June 28. Activities planned include a sweet corn farm-to-table relay, fruit and vegetable stamp painting, building a hamburger flannel board and seed planting. There will also be […]
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The hearth eternal
She said to us who came with wondering eyes– “This is a magic fire, a magic room.” – From “The Hearth Eternal,” a poem by Lindsay published in 1914 in Congo and Other Poems. Jennie Battles stands in one of the rooms of the Vachel Lindsay State Historic Site by the typewriter poet Vachel Lindsay […]
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Going the extra mile
PHOTO BY CHAD MITCHELL PHOTOGRAPHY Assumption Fest opens Thursday, June 26, in the small town of Assumption but the lineup is anything but small. Recently added to the parade on Saturday, June 28, is the vehicle and color guard, courtesy of the Illinois Army National Guard’s Company A and Company D, 1st Battalion, 106th Aviation […]
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Bang for your buck
PHOTO BY GLENN SWEITZE Central Illinois’ largest Independence Day fireworks display takes place Friday, June 27. Rock the Dock is famous for its fireworks launched from barges on Lake Springfield in front of Lake Springfield Marina. Country singer Austin Webb, whose new single “Raise ’Em Up” is currently being played on the radio, will perform. […]
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Witnessing the past
PHOTOS COURTESY CHERI FRY The largest mounted Civil War reenactment in the Midwest takes place in Jacksonville Community Park June 20-22. Watch soldiers drill and prepare for battle, fix meals, practice medicine and enact major battles. There will also be Friday night entertainment, an exhibit to honor war veterans, rides in WWII trucks, 1850s vintage […]
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Illinois nature
PHOTO COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS Naturalists Michael Jeffords and Sue Post will present a program on their newest book Exploring Nature in Illinois: A Field Guide to the Prairie State, foreword by Illinois Audubon Society Executive Director Tom Clay (University of Illinois Press, 2014). The 280-page book, loaded with color photographs and evocative descriptions […]
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Comic pastiche
PHOTO COURTESY ROXY THEATRICALS Tony-award winning Best Musical Thoroughly Modern Millie arrives at The Legacy Theatre in a sparkling new production June 20-29. Set in the Roaring ’20s, “Thoroughly Modern Millie is that old girl-meets-boy, girl-loses-boy, girl-gets-boy and busts an international crime ring story,” says Director Scott Richardson, with a smile. “I can’t say it […]
