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The Bird Man Tablet: This unique artifact has become a symbol of the civilization which thrived at Cahokia.

Chert: No, it's not a sound made by a sick bird. Chert is a rock. With a connection to the Union County area. As in Mill Creek. And Kaolin.

Please read this...Getting in touch with the Lincolns

<p class="p1">This week's column is brought to you by the numbers 66, 1806, 1832, 1839 and 1847, which are accompanied by a hodgepodge of Hodgenville, a little bit of Lexington and a look at the Lincolns.</p><p class="p1">After somewhat of a "slow" start, the pace of our summer...

Please read this...Overcoming a case of writer's block

<p class="p1">Some folks may have checked out this space during the last couple of weeks and figured that the wordsmith was getting, well, lazy. And, in a sense, they would be right. Well, sort of. </p><p class="p1">Lazy might not be the right word. Somewhere in the English...

Please read this...Sorry, folks, we're gonna bug you again...

<p class="p1">"HEY ETHEL. DON'T LOOK. HE'S WRITIN' 'BOUT THEM CICADITYDID BUGS AGIN. ETHEL? ETHEL? OH, NO, THEM BUGS IS FLYIN' AWAY WITH ETHEL..."</p><p class="p3">Bear with me, folks. One more round of cicada stuff. Mainly because they kept landing on me while I was standing...

This depicts a lazy way to shoot a picture of a downpour: Open side door at The Paragraph Factory. Look outside. Realize that it is raining. Take picture. Go back to comfy hole in wall at The Paragraph Factory. Feel smug about staying dry.

Please read this...Mother Nature brings us a toad-choker

<p class="p1">Apparently, even the amphlippians were fish out of water last Friday.</p><p class="p1">Perhaps you remember last Friday and the deluge of almost Biblical proportions which we experienced in our part of the known world. I say "almost Biblical" in that the downpour...

Can a winged creature, e.g. a cicada, be fenced in? Does yours truly spend too much time pondering things that don't matter?

Bugs in a bush: Like the legendary Chicken Man of AM radio fame, cicadas have been everywhere.

A face that only a mother could love: This was one of the approximately 8 billion cicadas which were in our backyard last Sunday.

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