A wonderful play on a Beatles song and the deer rut, dancing sandhill crances at Cog Hill and an eagle showing itself near Lemont are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.
From Milwaukee up to Hudson, in every plant and mill, wherever workers strike and organize, there you’ll find Joe Hill. You’ll also find a reasonable facsimile of Joe Hill in Mount Horeb on October 7. Actor/musician Tom Kastle and director David Simmons join us to tell us about their timely revival of the production “Joe Hill Alive as You and Me.”
AKRON, Ohio Joe Hill was a labor organizer and songwriter for the Industrial Workers of the World, founded in 1905. He believed in the IWW mantra that men and women of all races and nations could work together to “change the unequal conditions of society though legitimate direct action.