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Creating connections through the arts and across cultures and the home of "Sightlines: A Poet's Diary." Feautures family issues and the creative vitality of the blogger's father, in his 90s, Erwin A. Thompson.
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“You Gave Me Dignity”
Jimmy Freeman and Tommy White at the scouting jamboree. Slept in the same sleeping bag. “Color didn’t rub off either one of them.” When Jimmy returned to visit Pop he told him, “You gave me dignity. I can stand up with anyone ...
Village Wisdom: Anchors Series on Riehlife
“Anchors” refers to the people in the Melville community that were the heart of it as my father Erwin A. Thompson grew up and as he listened to the stories of older generations of the legends that were our heritage. Here is a showcase of...
Village Wisdom: Anchors (intro) by Erwin A. Thompson
Rebecca Pincas and her family hosted a gathering at the Edwardsville Library to share the labors of several yeras of hard and dedicated work. The subject: “The early history of Melville andi ts people.” Several of the old families wer...
Village Wisdom: Anchors: “Melville Neighbors,”by Erwin A. Thompson
In our family collection of books I found an old Bible, with the inscription: “Frank Riehl, Superintendent of the Melville Sunday School.” One time my Uncle Ed Riehl and Aunt Amelia (Mim) Riehl were to play a violin duet for the church p...
Village Wisdom: Anchors, E. A. Riehl…by Erwin A. Thompson
Evergreen Heights, the place founded by E. A. Riehl and our homeplace still…where he communed with nature and forged paths to become one of the 8 premiere horticulturalist in the world at that time. E. A. Riehl was a pillar of the community, th...
Alton Sesquicenntenial: We’re playing, folks!
Pop and I are musicians in public this weekend. We’re playing both days at the Alton Sesquicenntenial. Just so you don’t have to look it up, that’s 150 years, the anniversary of the historic Lincoln-Douglas debates in Alton. Expand...
Blog Action Day: Poverty in the Great Depression— “The Kind of People that we are.” Poem by Erwin A. Thompson
Blog Action Day is today, with a focus on Poverty. Click here for Blog Action home. Currently 9,394 Sites with an audience with more than 10,612,112 readers are registered in Blog Action Day 2008. Last year, I participated when bloggers focused on ...
Birthday Brother, 62 years of happiness and helpingness: Gary Arthur Thompson
Gary and Patty Thompson Happy birthday, Gary, as you celebrate 62 years of your happiness genius dedicated to being a good solid citizen, a good father and now grandfather and uncle and great-uncle and brother and son and husband, a good teacher, a ...
