What would you do if your country church was hit by a rogue tornado during services? What if the shrieking winds unearthed the bones of a missing parishioner in a nearby wheat field? Now add the discovery of heroin in your elderly minister’s bloodstream. When Gus LeGarde is thrown into the middle of the mess, […]
What would you do if your country church was hit by a rogue tornado during services? What if the wind unearthed the bones of a missing parishioner in a nearby wheat field? Now add the discovery of heroin in your elderly minister’s bloodstream. When Gus LeGarde is thrown into the middle of the mess, he […]
Not all Illinois pioneers arrived in covered wagons. Some of our earliest settlers sailed schooners across the Great Lakes. Joseph Naper, founder of Naperville, brought thirteen families aboard his ship the Telegraph in 1831. Ruth by Lake and Prairie tells of the journey through the eyes of his twelve-year-old niece, a “prairie girl” forty years […]
