Tag: tourist
member name: Nick Howes
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April 17, 2008 01:03 PM EDT --
School of the Soldier
The Ecolo do Soldat (School of the Soldier) is coming up the weekend of Saturday and Sunday, April 26th and 27th at Fort de Chartres State Historic Site In Southern Illinois. . . .
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April 03, 2008 07:32 PM EDT --
Some events coming up in the next few days. I'd like to go myself but may only attend one of them. My criteria is simple: I list it if it interests me. I can promise that under . . .
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April 11, 2008 09:08 AM EDT --
Rusty's Trailblazin' Chuckwagon rolls into town with stories of the cowboys on the trails, pushing longhorn cattle from Texas to the railheads that led to the Chicago stockyards. It's an authentic . . .
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July 10, 2008 12:12 PM EDT --
A couple events of note this weekend:
Collinsville , Illinois' World's Largest Catsup Bottle Festival Car, Truck and Bike Show and Cruise-A-Palooza is being held this Saturday and Sunday, . . .
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August 02, 2008 10:24 AM EDT --
A statue of Popeye's nemesis, Brutus, or Bluto if you prefer, joins that of the pugnacious sailor and friends in Chester, Illinois, hometown of Elsie Segar, the cartoonist who created the pugnacious . . .
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March 25, 2008 09:29 AM EDT --
GHOSTHUNTING ILLINOIS. John B. Kachuba. Kachuba tells about touring haunted sites in Illinois including at least one account I'd never come across before, the alleged haunting of the . . .
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March 28, 2008 08:38 AM EDT --
The Rainbow Ranch Petting Farm in Plum Hill, Illinois, is preparing for a spring onslaught of baby animals. The ranch located in tiny Plum Hill, Illinois, already has more than 200 animals that call it . . .
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April 02, 2008 08:20 AM EDT --
Queen Elizabeth II is welcome to attend The Gathering of Elizabeths being hosted by Elizabeth, Illinois Saturday, June 28th. The day-long celebration will honor several women of the 1840s bearing . . .
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May 12, 2008 02:15 PM EDT --
Logan Days ic coming up this weekend (Fri-Sat, May 16-17, 2008) at the John A. Logan Museum in Murphysboro, IL. The annual festival honors Civil War General John A. Logan, one of Lincoln's best . . .
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September 19, 2008 12:36 PM EDT --
The Fall Equinox is being observed this weekend at Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site in Collinsville, Illinois. The event is being held at Woodhenge, a reconstructed artifact believed to be a prehistoric . . .
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August 30, 2009 09:10 AM EDT --
The Lewis-Clark State Historic Site near Hartford, Illinois, hosts its annual Music Festival Saturday, September 12, 2009. Featured will be traditional music of the late 18th and early 19th Centuries, . . .
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April 29, 2009 10:37 AM EDT --
All of these events are this weekend.
Celebrate May Day this Friday, May 1, at the Noble May Day Parade in Richland County, Illinois. 618-723-2212
Saturday, Lebanon hosts the . . .
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August 30, 2009 09:17 AM EDT --
Nashville, Illinois' biggest annual event, the Nashville (IL) Fall Festival is coming up September 25-26, 2009. It's the 21st straight year in a row for the event which gathers more than 100 craft and . . .
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August 26, 2008 07:07 PM EDT --
The Commemorative Air Force B-17 flying museum dubbed "Sentimental Journey," which recently stopped over for a few days at Mt Vernon (IL) Outland Airport, is now at St Louis Regional Airport . . .
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March 25, 2008 09:03 AM EDT --
For such a small town with just 4,000 people, Chester, Illinois has a lot of ghost stories. The ghosts haunt a restaurant, a roadside, and the local library, among other places. There's even a ghost . . .
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September 29, 2009 08:03 AM EDT --
At the edge of the small town of Metropolis, Illinois, is the 1,500 acre Fort Massac State Historic Site. The park is dominated by a reconstructed wooden fort overlooking the Ohio River put up in recent . . .
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March 13, 2009 12:22 PM EDT --
The state capitol building in which Abraham Lincoln served as a lawmaker will reopen Saturday, March 14th after it was ordered closed due to budget cuts to the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. . . .
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May 15, 2008 09:18 AM EDT --
The Jimmy Buffet tribute band, The Boat Drunks, is among the entertainerment lined-up for Memorial Day weekend's HerrinFesta Italiana on Saturday, May 24th in Southern Illinois. The . . .
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April 23, 2008 08:39 AM EDT --
The annual free Kids' Day is Saturday May 3d at Fort de Chartres State Historical Site in Randolph County, located near village of Prairie du Rocher, itself nestled below the scenic bluffs overlooking . . .
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April 10, 2008 08:47 AM EDT --
A popular destination for walking ghost tours in Alton, Illinois, are the ruins of the Alton Penitentiary. The ruins aren't much but Len Adams and other tour guides of Alton Hauntings Tours will fill . . .
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