Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Hurricane Island Farmers - June 1973

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   The large island, known as Hurricane Island, located in the Ohio River a short distance from the Tolu shore line has fascinated me for ma...
Wednesday, October 16, 2024

1918 Influenze Epidemic in Crittenden County

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Recalling the 1918 Influenza Epidemic In Crittenden County The history breaking event was getting worse in the late summer of 1918, hitti...
Wednesday, October 9, 2024

Alfred Moore, Mattoon's First permanent Settler

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The remains of the first log home before in was remodeled.  The first permanent settler of the area of old Mattoon was the Alfred Moore fami...
Saturday, September 28, 2024

Arthur Love, Silent Story Teller

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 Cemeteries, silent story tellers lie in our many cemeteries.  This story is from the Hurricane Cemetery, located a short distance off S. R....
Monday, September 16, 2024

Marion's Fires of 1912 and 1913

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  During the history of Marion's existence it seems to have had it's fair share of devastating fires. The people have always worked...
Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Stills and White Lightening

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In the early and mid 1920's many of the top headline stories in the local paper were about the illegal making of moonshine or the sellin...
Saturday, August 24, 2024

The Press Scribe Visits the river towns of Tolu, and Weston

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  As the Press correspondent traveled the county getting ads and subscriptions for the paper he would share some of his journey’s adventure...