Sep 7, 2022 | Graves, Illinois, Literary Landscapes, Volume 9
Elijah Lovejoy Lovejoy State MemorialAlton, IL By Evan Allen Wood Elijah Parish Lovejoy was shot by members of a mob and succumbed to his wounds on the evening of November 7, 1837, in Alton, Illinois. Decades later, the community erected a 110-foot-tall monument...
Feb 22, 2022 | Graves, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Nebraska, Novelists, Volume 7
Mari Sandoz Gravesite Sheridan County, Nebraska By C.J. Janovy It’s not easy to get to the final resting place of Nebraska writer Mari Sandoz, whose books, I’ll go ahead and argue, evoke one region of America as powerfully as William Faulkner’s portray another. Paying...
Oct 6, 2021 | Graves, Literary Landscapes, Ohio, Poets, Volume 5
SARAH MORGAN BRYAN PIATT William Henry Harrison TombNorth Bend, Ohio By Sean Andres It’s not hard to find something of historical significance in the Cincinnati area, but many people don’t even think about North Bend. The town was founded by John Cleves Symmes,...
Oct 5, 2021 | Graves, Literary Landscapes, Novelists, Volume 4
WILLA CATHER Old Burying GroundJaffrey, New Hampshire By Catherine Seiberling Pond In her first known correspondence from Jaffrey, New Hampshire, Willa Cather wrote to her brother Roscoe on a postcard from the Shattuck Inn, “I am working well in this lovely country.”...
Sep 11, 2021 | Graves, Illinois, Literary Landscapes, Poets, Volume 1
Edgar Lee Masters Ann Rutledge’s GravePetersburg, Illinois By Jason Stacy As a boy, I found it unsettling that Edgar Lee Masters anthologized the dead in an Illinois cemetery that never existed. Spoon River Anthology’s ghosts haunted the same rich Illinois soil I...
