Nauvoo [nah VOO, naw VOO]. Hancock. City (1841, 1899) six miles south of Fort Madison, Iowa. The area around modern Nauvoo was known as Quashquema, named for a minor Sauk […]
Salt Lake City – The Last Days
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Illinois Place Name of the Day – Oct. 24, 2008
Hoopeston [HUP stuhn]. Vermilion. City (1877). Modern Hoopeston is the result of an early 1870s merger of three communities: Hoopeston, laid out by Thomas Hoopes and Joseph Satterwhaite; North Hoopeston, […]
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Illinois Place Name of the Day – Oct. 23, 2008
Coffee. Wabash. Precinct. Also Coffee Island and Coffee Creek. The traditional story is that a keelboat loaded with coffee was proceeding up the Wabash River and took shelter for the […]
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Illinois Place Name of the Day – Oct. 22, 2008
Cairo. Alexander. City (1818, 1873). Chartered in 1818 as the City and Bank of Cairo by John G. Comegys, Shadrach Bond (the first governor of the state of Illinois and […]
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Publishers Weekly reviews Simone de Beauvoir’s “Wartime Diary”
The October 6, 2008, issue of Publishers Weekly includes a laudatory review of the forthcoming (December 2008) English translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s Wartime Diary. “What gives these notebooks additional […]
Illinois Place Name of the Day – Oct. 21, 2008
Kinmundy. Marion. City (1867, 1875) ten miles northeast of Salem. Laid out about 1857 on the line of the Illinois Central Railroad by William T. Sprouse and named for the […]
Illinois Place Name of the Day – Oct. 20, 2008
Cave in Rock. Hardin. Village (1901) twenty-five miles southeast of Harrisburg. Named from the natural cave in the bluff along the Ohio River, a landmark for boatmen since the seventeenth […]
Time Out New York reviews Oni Buchanan’s “Spring”
The October 16-22, 2008, issue of Time Out New York includes an enthusiastic review of Oni Buchanan’s new book of poems, Spring. “Buchanan writes poems that are deeply sensitive, precisely […]