Apr29
I like to take a drive along the Mississippi River in Henderson County, Illinois each year in early spring. The best time is when the ice is just starting to break up and there will still be many wintering bald eagles …
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Apr14
By Lynn McKeown
This article originally appeared in the Zephyr December 13, 2007 issue.
Clark E. Carr was a big man in town (in more ways than one) in the Galesburg of a century ago. He was a lawyer, businessman, Galesburg postmaster, sometime newspaper …
Mar24
There they were again – the raucous troublemakers, taking over the neighborhood, or at least our backyard. Loud and demanding in their black coats like a rowdy motorcycle gang.
Grackles, back from their winter home down south. For those not familiar with …
Dec31
This is an updated version of a column that first appeared January 22, 2004 in the Zephyr.
Something about the white shape in the distance looked interesting. “Is that a paper sack out in that field?” I asked.
“I don’t know,” said my …
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Dec17
This is an updated and edited version of an article by the same author that originally appeared in the December 19, 1996 edition of The Zephyr newspaper.
When I was grade school age, my family often went for Christmas dinner with …
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