The Supreme Court building is “an ice box decorated by a mad upholsterer.” – Jill Lepore When the Prospect Church merged with the Cottage…
By the time the sap rose too early in the oaks and all the frogs in Tawas Bay began singing erratically, it was too late…
The Plan of Chicago: A City in Stories Barry Pearce, Cornerstone Press Many years ago, at a bar on Chicago’s northwest side, a deeply…
Susan Azar Porterfield grew up in Chicago and has spent her career teaching and writing in northern Illinois. Voice/Poems, published by Trio House Press in…
Narrative Map Project / Nonfiction
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Perch Sandwiches, Baby Steps, and Other Memories of Growing Up on the Great Lakes
In western Lake Erie, on the south shore of Kelleys Island, a limestone rock covered with petroglyphs holds a few clues as to the first…