Attendees will have the opportunity to share stories, photos and scrapbooks, and roam the grounds of the place that once was home to thousands of children in Illinois.
This Top 10 list isn’t exactly the 10 biggest stories or the year or the 10 stories I liked the most or the ones that were read the most. It’s kind of a combination of the two. That’s the beauty of making your own list, right? You make the rules!
Like so many other traditions, the annual Illinois Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Children’s School reunion was cancelled the last two years because of the pandemic. Former residents, called “Homers,” were finally able to get together last weekend to share doughnuts and memories about the years they called ISSCS their home.
On today's episode, children who lived in the long-since closed Illinois Soldiers' and Sailors' Children's Home share fond memories of their time living in the orphanage, a Heyworth man turns a pandemic hobby into a new career, and Ariele Jones offers an audio postcard preview of the Evergreen Cemetery Walk in Bloomington.
Queen Elizabeth II has died at the age of 96. When she ascended the throne in 1952, most present-day Britons, and most Americans for that matter, were not yet alive. Queen Elizabeth ruled for a period that is about a third of the length of U.S. history.