Local History Program Coordinator at the Pekin Public Library. I oversee the library’s local history room collection, write a weekly local history column/weblog for the library, and present local history programs at the library and in the community.
Continuing now with our series on Pekin’s downtown businesses featured in the group of...
This week our series on the 19th-century downtown Pekin business cards turns to an...
In advance of Pekin’s 50th Marigold Festival (to be celebrated 8-11 Sept. 2022), Pekin...
Last month a group of vintage late-19th-century Pekin business advertising cards, featuring photographs of...
In recent years, the lives of Nance Legins-Costley (1813-1892) and her family have become...
Recently Fred Massaglia brought an old photograph to the Tazewell County Genealogical & Historical...
Three weeks ago we reviewed Dr. W. E. Schenck’s 1905 list of the pioneer...
One of the most prominent of Pekin’s community leaders in the earliest years of...
This is a reprint of a “From the Local History Room” column that first...
In September 2013 and January 2014, we recalled a dramatic story that was recorded...
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