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.

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This is a reprint of a “From the Local History Room” column that first...

This is a reprint of a “From the Local History Room” column that first...

This is a reprint of a “From the Local History Room” column that first...

This is a reprint of a “From the Local History Room” column that first...

This is a reprint of a “From the Local History Room” column that first...

This is a reprint of a “From the Local History Room” column that first...

This is a reprint of a “From the Local History Room” column that first...

It was a century ago that the Lincoln Circuit Marking Association, led by Lottie...

Last autumn a newly-published diary detailing an Easterner’s 1835 travels in the Midwest was...

This is a reprint of a “From the Local History Room” column that first...