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A single mom working as a part-time postal clerk at a small village post office in Shelby County moves briskly, dispensing stamps, weighing letters and…
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Back home in Philadelphia, Beth Feldman Brandt reserves her Fridays for writing poetry. At least, in theory she does. Distractions tend to get in the way…
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Back home in Philadelphia, Beth Feldman Brandt reserves her Fridays for writing poetry. At least, in theory she does. Distractions tend to get in the way…
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Ray Bradbury has lived his life in two different worlds. Not on faraway planets like the settings of many of his science fiction tales. Bradbury’s life…
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The way former Gov. James R. Thompson tells it, the idea for the Illinois Artisans Program came to him on a trip out east.“We went through Vermont, and…
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Scott Reeder paints ice cream cones that watch themselves melt in a mirror, depicts cigar-smoking fruit and crafts art made of spaghetti.“All of my work…
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Operation Oak Tree — which provides military families the opportunity to participate in therapeutic art, music and drama activities — recognizes that…
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State budget cuts and the often long wait that schools face for payments from the state have hurt arts education. Art teachers have been laid off. Schools…
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Jim Nutt can take more than a year producing his paintings of women’s heads.“I don’t recommend that,’’ quips the 72-year-old Wilmette artist whose work…
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Former U.S. House Speaker ‘Uncle’ Joe Cannon, actor Dick Van Dyke and Chuckles candy all have something in common: They once called Danville home and…