5/31/2023 0 Comments Bad Tickets by Kathleen O'Dell![]() ![]() ![]() After all, the news business is anything but quiet: There’s the train-like whir of a printing press, rumbling toward its deadline destination. Silent-speaking newsprint stands in stark contrast to the world that brings it life. Many thanks to Hank Billings, Dale Freeman, Sony Hocklander, Everett Kennell, Louise (Whall) Knauer, Bob Linder, Mike O'Brien and Kathleen O'Dell for sharing their memories for this project - an endeavor where it seemed better to share some stories than none at all. That said, this is but a brief look at the papers through the lives and stories of a few people. Note: It would be impossible to write a story that encompasses all events and notable names in Springfield's journalistic history. ![]() Jewell, publisher of Springfield Newspapers, Inc., oversees one of his paper's presses in the late 1920s or early '30s.(Photo courtesy of Richard Crabtree) ![]()
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![]() ![]() Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice, he braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. "Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose." ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments Map of Bones by James Rollins![]() ![]() ![]() For this tragedy is more than a case of arson - someone has stolen the priceless treasure stored in the cathedral's golden reliquary: the bones of the biblical Three Kings.Ĭommander Gray Pierce leads a team on the hunt for the Royal Dragon Court, a clandestine aristocratic fraternity of alchemists that dates back to the Middle Ages and seeks to establish a new world order using the mystical bones. When a group of parishioners is burned to death in a German cathedral, the US sends in Sigma Force. ![]() Death stalked the cathedrals as the monks slaughtered the few remaining survivors. The horrific theft of a priceless relic.a secret society reaching back to the Middle Ages.and the top-flight US team who must stop them. ![]() |