...a.m. To commence my diary I will use lines I wrote a few years ago for an Illinois newspaper. May 20, 1863 I am six feet four inches tall and we... ...e 20, 1863 Some of my happy days were passed in East Salem, when I was an Illinois postmaster. Since the mail arrived only twice a week, I could per... ...118 years she would be free. Patience? Slavery was an old institution in Illinois, winked at in the 30’s and 40’s. The first governor of the state ... ... to enroll. Ann was to enroll at Jacksonville Academy. I was to enroll at Illinois College. That year I called on her at the Rutledge farm, several ... ...a juggler, toss up thoughts, three or four at a time, potatoes. In those Illinois days I was lucky when I earned 30 cents a day, working on a farm.... ...ve. I determined I must get away. Living there I lived like an Indian, an Illinois Indian, barefooted all summer, moccasined during the winter. Like ... ...tely, barely commenting, shy, rather like a little prince, not a kid from Illinois. Tad pleased him with a checker set, board and pieces handmade. ... ...e is always kind to his little friends. The soldiers love him. He’s their Illinois Lieutenant. The blacks, too, are fond of him. Mary loves to cradl... ...t hand. The stiff fingers were those of a farmer—a man from Ten- nessee or Illinois, a corn-husker’s hand. I saw a boy’s hand next to the farmer’s. ...

...even used 6 pigs, one of which was located at Argonne National Laboratory (Illinois), the other 5 pigs located in his laboratory at Maryland Universit... ...laxy. A peculiarity of those experiments was that the pigs located both in Illinois and Maryland were isolated as much as possible from external elect...

...wing tribute to “Honest Abe”, the author traces Lincoln’s ancestral roots and recounts his birth in Kentucky, his youth in Indiana, his adult life in Illinois and his years in the White House. She also provides a good background on the causes and course of the American Civil War. Hamilton is not always historically precise. For example, she erroneously names Jefferson Davi...

...hering details for his novel. The Reader wishes to gratefully acknowledge the assistance, and patience, of Professor Giedrius Subacius (University of Illinois) and the folks at Lituanus (www.lituanus.org) for their invaluable support as I struggled with Lithuanian pronunciations. Truly, this audio book would have been far more difficult, and far less authentic, without the...