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Mara Fass/review | 'Keeper of Lost Children' explores the 'Black Baby Plan' during WWII
11+ hour, 8+ min ago (262+ words) Sophia Clark is delighted to receive a scholarship to a distinguished private school in Maryland after spending her childhood toiling tirelessly on a farm for a demanding and emotionally distant mother " even if the year is 1965 and she'll be one…...
My Turn | Remembering Urbana war hero Dick Pittman
1+ week, 5+ day ago (725+ words) A remembrance and flag dedication ceremony will be held from 4-6 p.m. Feb. 21 at Urbana VFW Post 630 for Urbana High School graduate and Marine Cpl. Richard L. "Dick" Pittman, who was killed in action on Feb. 21, 1945, on Iwo Jima. It is the 81st anniversary…...
Holy Cow History | White Coca-Cola for a Red general
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (788+ words) A portrait of Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov published in Life magazine in 1945. A Coca-Cola ad from 1942 featuring U.S. soldiers. Put yourself in his position. You've just led a 6.5-million-man army across half a continent, ending four years…...
Special delivery: 48 Holocaust education book trunks arrive at Vermilion schools
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (441+ words) Potomac Grade School eighth-graders with the books they received. Eighth-grade honors students at Hoopeston Area Middle School show off the Holocaust-related books donated to their school and others throughout Vermilion County by Sybil Mervis. Students at Georgetown-Ridge Farm High School…...
Celebration of life for World War II veteran on Sunday in Savoy
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (737+ words) ABOVE: Duane "Harvey" Hodges performs on trombone as part of the entertainment troupe Laughs Inc. during World War II. AT RIGHT: Hodges in front of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Duane "Harvey" Hodges in front of the Arc de Triomphe…...
Coast Guard brass player made waves across country
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (631+ words) Florence and Arthur Schnell are shown at the beach at the Manhattan Beach Coast Guard Training Station in New York while he was on leave. Larry Schnell discovered boxes of love letters and documents his father kept while he was…...
Urbana 103-year-old: 'We learned to do with what we had"
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (623+ words) Champaign-Urbana native Charlotte French plays piano at Amber Glen Memory Care in Urbana. Champaign-Urbana native Charlotte French will celebrate her 103 birthday at the end of this month. URBANA " Known as the happiest and bubbliest resident at Amber Glen Memory Care,…...
Monticello Marine hero remembered at park rededication
7+ mon, 4+ week ago (523+ words) Todd Hitt plays "Amazing Grace" on the bagpipes'during Saturday's ceremony.' Those in attendance at the weekend rededication of Monticello's park look at the sign honoring its namesake "Pfc. Robert C. Burke. To pitch a 'My Turn' guest column, email [email protected]. Want…...