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At a Métis gathering, lively strains of fiddle music and the smell of rubaboo porridge and bannock fill the air, rising above laughter and singing. These hallmarks of Métis culture, which include a strong sense of independence and self-reliance, have been cultivated over centuries, resulting in a people that has...
Question: Of the thousands of words in the English language, only three English words, according to Webster, begin with the letters “dw,” a number bumped up to at least four if you include proper nouns and names, and specifically one Central Illinois town. Can you name the dw- words? Answer:...
Question: Across from the courthouse in downtown Metamora are the statues of Abe Lincoln and a woman, Melissa Goings. Abe we know, but why is Goings there? Answer: In an 1857 trial in Metamora at which Goings was accused of killing her abusive husband, her lawyer, Lincoln, believed the killing...
Edward Spott was off-stage waiting for the cue for his character to come alive. It was Jan. 12, 1895, and Spott was playing Myles Standish in a theatrical production put on by the Standard Debating Society in the chapel of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School campus, the Indian Helper, a...
KEESEVILLE — A black mustang convertible, emblazoned with Miss Vermont and Miss Vermont’s Teen, is not lost on the west bank of Lake Champlain. It means Miss Vermont 2023, Yamuna Turco, is visiting her family’s Keeseville farm, Manzini, ‘Place of Water’ in Zulu. “That’s apparently something that no one expected,”...
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