CARBONDALE — With overall capacity about halfway full, Camp Little Giant still has spots for children and adults with varying levels of physical and mental disabilities to register, according to
A free, public presentation on the work and legacy of noted futurist, architect and designer R. Buckminster Fuller by one of his former students is set for Sunday, April 7, at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
John G. Gilbert worked as the “education senator” alongside his close friend SIU President Delyte W. Morris in helping transform Southern Illinois University Carbondale from a small teachers college to a major university in the 1960s and 1970s.
The tro is inspired by the ceremonial meal that was common among Indigenous Plains peoples and the Southern Illinois community embraced the tradition decades ago.