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Galesburg, Illinois

17.07.2006

Yesterday we had a nice boat ride on the Mississippi River. Then we headed to Galesburg, IL, where my old college friend, Sue, is a professor of political science. It's also the birthplace of Carl Sandburg, so there's Carl Sandburge Park, Mall, Street, etc. Also, the only remaining building where one of the Lincoln-Douglas debates took place still stands on the Knox College campus. Apparently throngs of people came from miles around to listen to the debate, which lasted 8 hours!

This afternoon, my friend took us out to a local lake where she taught Marina and Hayley to sail on her sailboat. They all ended up in the water at some point, but it helped keep us all cool - it is hot and muggy today. Tomorrow we'll get a student-led tour of Knox College, and then some friends of Sue's will take the girls fishing tomorrow night.

Wednesday, we're headed to Northville, MI, not too far from Ann Arbor, home of University of Michigan. We still cannot believe how much corn we've seen growing for miles along the sides of the roads as we'ver travelled east!

Catherine, "yes" to your visit in August - more later.

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Posted by howardtrip 13:53

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sounds like fun
1. dont recall named carl Galesburg
2. now hayley must take me boating
3. bring home some fish and corn (there's so much corn, nobody will mind)

17.07.2006 by d.kilsby

mmmmmmm corn.
(do you think its kinda sad that all i do is comment on the food?) and marina: its hard to comment on this thing. you have to become a (free) member and then make a password and stuff like that. at least I did. at MY house. sad. well sounds like you guys are having alot of fun. i bet marina had LOADS of fun at the debate....... he he

17.07.2006 by langer...

I think every child should be required to attend an eight hour debate - to learn what the true issues are and learn to digest a lot of important information at one time. Back when I was a kid we often had to attend twelve-hour debates - in Latin!

19.07.2006 by Howarddad

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