Stories of Springfield: Life in Lincoln's Town - McAndrew, Tara McClellan
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Discover the stories behind the famous characters of Springfield, Illinois, and why some of the city's lesser-known citizens are worthy of fame too. Learn about the first Lincoln museum and its controversial creator, the cholera epidemic that raged through the town and the operators of Springfield's Underground Railroad. Determine whether Lincoln purchased cocaine at a local drugstore, unearth the mystery of a local poet's wrenching death and find out how the local saloonkeepers beat the temperance movement. From the fatal pole wars of 1844 to the invention of dental forceps, local historian…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Discover the stories behind the famous characters of Springfield, Illinois, and why some of the city's lesser-known citizens are worthy of fame too. Learn about the first Lincoln museum and its controversial creator, the cholera epidemic that raged through the town and the operators of Springfield's Underground Railroad. Determine whether Lincoln purchased cocaine at a local drugstore, unearth the mystery of a local poet's wrenching death and find out how the local saloonkeepers beat the temperance movement. From the fatal pole wars of 1844 to the invention of dental forceps, local historian Tara McAndrew's careful research splices together the comic, the tragic and the completely unexpected in these chronicles from Lincoln's town.
Autorenporträt
Tara McClellan McAndrew is an award-winning writer in Springfield, Illinois, where her roots reach back at least five generations and include ties to Abraham Lincoln. One of her ancestors gave Lincoln land in Lincoln, Illinois, as repayment for a debt, and another, an attorney, opposed him in court. Tara has written about local history since the 1980s. She currently writes a local history column for the central Illinois weekly newspaper, the Illinois Times. Before that, she wrote a weekly local history column for the Springfield daily paper, the State Journal-Register.