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Posted by Behind the Curtain 5 hours 26 minutes ago.
I’m a weather junkie.
I watch all the storm chasing shows and would have loved to be a meteorologist in another life. I was on my way back from covering an assignment in Jacksonville when this afternoon’s storms started brewing. I decided to t...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 6 days 23 hours ago.
Puppetry arts can be traced back to 16th century England, but the consensus from my own childhood cartoon watching reaffirms an earlier date for this classic art form. Cavemen sitting around a fire were inevitably the first to grunt out a few laughs using...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 1 week 6 days ago.
I’ve been out at the Illinois State Fairgrounds this week, shooting daily’s for the newspaper. Here are a few outtakes and bonus material.
Posted by Behind the Curtain 1 week 6 days ago.
I’ve been out at the Illinois State Fairgrounds this week, shooting photographs for the daily newspaper. Here are a few outtakes and bonus material.
Posted by Behind the Curtain 1 month ago.
Besides being a place where a cut, blow dry and shampoo are just for starters, Springfield’s K.M. Hair Works & Spa offers something really unique in the art of hair: a permanent exhibition of mourning hair on its’ walls-courtesy of salon o...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 1 month ago.
Justin Allgaier drives his crumpled Penske Racing No. 12 Verizon Dodge back the garages after a flat tire led to a wreck that ended his race at the NASCAR Nationwide Series Missouri-Illinois Dodge Dealers 250 at Gateway International Raceway in Madison, I...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 1 month ago.
The first time I met Justin Allgaier he was standing on top of his car celebrating his first career victory in the ARCA RE/MAX Allen Crowe Memorial 100 in front of his hometown crowd at the Springfield Mile. (Pictured Above)
That was in 2006, fast forward...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 2 months ago.
For the first time it my five year career here at the State Journal-Register, I’m not working the 4th of July weekend. In that time I have become accustomed to shooting the fireworks each year and actually enjoyed the challenge of finding a new angl...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 2 months ago.
The dark streets of London in 1984 was my first exposure to being witness to the making of a movie. Meryl Streep was hanging out, filming a post World War II drama titled Plenty released the following year. As a young college student studying abroad...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 2 months ago.
In 2003, when Phil Hawley was diagnosed with terminal cancer, he did something remarkable. Taking advantage of a vacant building that formerly housed an IGA supermarket on Old Route 66 in Williamsville, Hawley made good on a promise to himself he would ...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 3 months ago.
Before moving up a notch to middle school, Owen Marsh Elementary School fifth grade student Grace Alexander commemorated her last day of fifth grade by wearing this spectacular hat. Grace told me Tuesday she was going by the moniker “The Mad Hattr...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 3 months ago.
I had no idea going in to work today that it was even suppose to rain. Little did I know that I would end up trudging through waste deep water as nearly five inches of rain wreaked havoc in downtown Springfield and surrounding areas. When the storm hit, I...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 3 months ago.
Etymological destiny makes sense if your chosen vocation is that of nurse and your first name is Charitas. And so for St. John’s School of Nursing class of 1932 graduate Sister Charitas Prince, OSF: charity, love and caring have all been synonym...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 3 months ago.
When Eleanor Roosevelt came to Springfield in 1940 to deliver a speech benefiting St. John’s Hospital and St. Joseph’s Home, she was greeted warmly at the Alton (now Amtrak) train station by a small crowd that included former congressman James Graham ...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 3 months ago.
The 1970 International Ski Flying Championship in Oberstdorf West Germany was famous for one thing: it was the birthplace of the saying “The Agony of Defeat.” It was here, on March 21 of that year, that Vinko Bogataj of Yugoslavia wiped out du...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 4 months ago.
I spied this scarecrow this morning while working on a future piece on the Community Garden plots out at the Illinois State Fairgrounds. Isn’t it time for him to go outside and get to work
Posted by Behind the Curtain 4 months ago.
Just in time for the spring planting season is a story about Frank Andrew, who in 1940 was a young Macoupin county farmer, newly minted graduate of the University of Illinois, and a tinkerer extraordinaire. He once designed a wooden speedometer-like devic...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 4 months ago.
I sometimes joke to journalism colleagues that the only time I go to church is when I’m on assignment for the newspaper.
I mentioned this in a roundabout way to the Rev. Samuel W. Hale Jr., pastor at Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Springfield. I ...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 4 months ago.
Winter delivered one last blast when a harmless but unwelcome spring snow fell on Springfield this week in April 1946. The short-lived change in weather was not severe enough to damage crops or gardens, according the Illinois State Journal, even though th...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 5 months ago.
Om Thursday, I had the opportunity to visit a business that has announced, directed, proclaimed, bragged about and generally identified the very nature of our capital city: Ace Sign Company.
They have accomplished this for the past 70 years by manufacturi...
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