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Monday we took you to the Missouri Wing of the Confederate Air Force
before crossing the Mississippi and leaving St. Louis on our trek east.
In Mount Olive, Illinois, we learned about Mother
Jones, union leader and champion of coal miners whose monument stands
in the town cemetery.
Near Bloomington,
we enjoyed a visit to the tiny town of Carlock, where Jeanie Wolf sent
us to have lunch at the only restaurant in town. Saved from closure by
a group of townspeople, the Countryside Family
Restaurant is owned by the corporation they formed to purchase the
cafe when it was about to shut down. After lunch we paid a visit first
to one and then the other of Carlock's two
cemeteries. It's probably the only village anywhere that has separate
resting places for Democrats and Republicans!
On Saturday
we brought you a memorable sign from Downers
Grove, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, and we visited the Kniffen-Downen
family in Evanston. Our GIZMO this week
was provided by a reader in California. See if it stumps you as utterly
as it did us!
We're in
Rockford, Illinois, at the moment, where we'll be taking you
to the fascinating Time Museum before we head south toward Indianapolis.
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