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Posted by Behind the Curtain 11 months ago.
Top 10 lists are something that have become so ubiquitous in our culture of information overload to become almost meaningless. Not so with the annual one issued by Landmarks Illinois. To put an exclamation mark on it, Litchfield’s Manske-Niemann...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 11 months ago.
Usually when you hear someone say “Stop the Presses!”, it’s in an old movie where some hot news flash has just come in on one of those old-fashioned Associated Press teletype machines. The editor whips the cigar out of his mouth and gets...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 11 months ago.
I go back a ways with Pinkie. In 1989, I first photographed the martini-swilling, pink fiberglass elephant through my windshield en route to Riverton, where a member of the Kent family, who still owns the IGA store there, was hauling her during a fierce s...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 11 months ago.
I go back a ways with Pinkie. In 1989, I first photographed the martini-swilling, pink-fiberglass elephant through my windshield in route to Riverton, where a member of the Kent family who still owns the IGA store there was hauling her during a fierce sno...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 1 year ago.
I was pretty excited to hear that Springfield had been picked as the host for the 2012 and 2013 National High School Finals Rodeo. When the rodeo was held here in 2006 and 2007 I had an absolute blast covering it. For the time it was here, it felt like be...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 1 year ago.
On January 21st, I accompanied Illinois State Historical Society president Mark Sorensen on an art and history tour of the Illinois state capitol building with members of the current class of Leadership Springfield. Mark’s knowledge of the history o...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 1 year ago.
I had the opportunity to work Christmas Eve as well as Christmas this year and can enthusiastically say that physical boundaries as defined by at least two area churches are not limited to their established sanctuaries.
Jacksonville’s First Christia...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 1 year ago.
Today’s Heartland section inside The State Journal-Register newspaper features some of our photographer’s faves of the year. I think it’s a good exercise to go through material for the year, but I’m not in love with the idea of bra...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 1 year ago.
Radio scanner traffic this afternoon indicates the city of Springfield is gearing up for some possible snow fall sometime this evening which would put everyone coming to tonight’s opening of the Springfield Theatre Centre’s production of ̶...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 1 year ago.
There might be four seasons here in the midwest but the two biggest ones, at least for a newspaper photographer, are of the football and basketball variety. While we are still taking pictures of local football teams that have advanced in the state tourn...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 1 year ago.
I along with State Journal-Register reporter Pete Sherman attended a Veterans Day program at Sherman Elementary School today, where the gymnasium was filled to capacity with the proud parents, family and friends who turned out to see students in grades Ki...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 1 year ago.
History sometimes does travel in reverse, just thank technology. Last week I had the opportunity to photograph Union Pacific Railroad’s Track Renewal Train in the Chatham area. This specialized train automatically removes old wood railroad ties ...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 1 year ago.
Today’s Heartland section takes a look at Chatham, otherwise known as Springfield’s bedroom community of choice. When I first arrived in Illinois in 1989, I remember assignments on the downtown Chatham square. If I had blinked back then and be...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 1 year ago.
Today’s Heartland section takes a look at Chatham, otherwise known as Springfield’s bedroom community of choice.
When I first arrived in Illinois in 1989, I remember assignments on the downtown Chatham square. If I had blinked back then and be...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 1 year ago.
Some history can be painful, but to the credit of the members of the Springfield Illinois African History Foundation, it’s something worth celebrating and preserving for the future . Several weeks ago, I had the pleasure of meeting with members of t...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 1 year ago.
I kinda had a 1970’s flashback this weekend. When I was kid, one of the advertisements I remember most was for Virginia Slims cigarettes. “You’ve Come a long way, baby” was the pitch: but what intrigued me most was the hilarious ...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 1 year 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 1 year 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 year 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 year 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.
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