Tag: travel
member name: Nick Howes
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March 05, 2008 03:03 PM EST --
With Daylight Savings Time set to kick in Sunday, March 9th, its time to consider some of the best time travel movies for an appropriate Sunday marathon screening complete with popcorn and soda. . . .
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May 28, 2009 08:25 AM EDT --
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn has reopened state parks and state historic sites ordered closed by his ousted predecessor, Rod Blagojevich who is facing prosecution on federal corruption charges.
In Southern . . .
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May 28, 2009 12:24 PM EDT --
Silver Creek Mill, the great arts and craft marketplace I profiled in an earlier posting, launches its summer farmer's market in Mascoutah, Illinois, this Saturday, May 30, 2009 with a special event that . . .
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October 29, 2009 07:08 PM EDT --
A REBEL IN TIME, Harry Harrison, Tor, 1983, paperback, 315pp.
This is a time travel book and you can guess the gimmick just from the title and cover art. So you are several steps ahead of . . .
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May 28, 2009 08:35 AM EDT --
The 17th Annual St Louis Pagan Picnic is being held this year on June 13 and 14th, 2009, at Tower Grove Park, located a few blocks south of the Missouri Botanical Gardens. The event is free and open to . . .
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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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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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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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August 30, 2008 11:35 AM EDT --
Coming up again this fall is the 2008 Cedarhurst Craft Fair Saturday and Sunday, September 6th and 7th, on the grounds of the Cedarhurst Center for the Arts in Mt Vernon, Illinois.
Central to the . . .
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September 09, 2008 08:07 AM EDT --
I've been impressed with St Clair's book ever since I first devoured it. Apparently I am not the only one, because copies bring relatively high prices from online book sellers.
The book gives . . .
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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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May 30, 2008 02:28 PM EDT --
Author Ellen Dugan, the Garden Witch, is among the guests at this year's St. Louis Pagan Picnic, the weekend of June 7th and 8th at Tower Grove Park. Dugan has written numerous books for Llewellyn, . . .
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September 11, 2008 02:04 PM EDT --
A quick look at activities this coming weekend:
Okawville Wheat Festival. Fri-Sun. Starts 5pm Fri and runs through Sun night. Queen pageant at 7pm Fri at Luechtefeld Gym. Parade . . .
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August 22, 2008 09:23 AM EDT --
Expect to talk to grizzled fur traders, visit teepees, and sample authentic, period food at this fall's Grafton Rendezvous, to be held along the banks of the Illinois River in Grafton, Illinois. Rendezvousers . . .
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September 03, 2008 12:52 PM EDT --
I just want to call your attention to activities soon to occur in Southern Illinois...two this weekend...which I wrote up in earlier articles.
Sep 5-7. Popeye Picnic in Chester. Unveiling . . .
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May 30, 2008 11:51 AM EDT --
Kids get a chance to experience the Lewis and Clark Expedition Saturday, june 7th at Lewis and Clark State Historic Site on Illinois Route 3 south of Hartford. Hours are 10am to 4pm and . . .
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