BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T010000 RDATE:20210314T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:America/Chicago CST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200924T000000 RDATE:20201101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:America/Chicago CDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:88430e6e930869dacb4132e0ec73b069 CATEGORIES:Community Calendar SUMMARY:Exploring The Land of Lincoln - Book Signing DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:
Book Signing for Local Author at Effingham Public Library
The Effingham Public Library will hold an author visit for Exploring the Land of Lincoln: The Essential Guide to Illinois Historic Sit es by Charles Titus on Saturday, September 25 from 10:00 a.m. until no on in the Fearday Cafe area.
Published by t he University of Illinois Press, Exploring the Land of Lincoln is a unique Illinois history-Illinois travel guide combination that invites re aders to journey through the state’s history by means of the Prairie State’ s most extraordinary historic sites.
The bo ok includes chapters on Cahokia Mounds, Starved Rock, Fort de Chartres, For t Massac, Old Shawneetown, Lincoln’s New Salem, Apple River Fort, the Vanda lia State House, Nauvoo, the Old State Capitol, Lincoln Log Cabin, Bishop H ill, the Reuben Moore Home and Thomas Lincoln Cemetery, the Old Chicago Wat er Tower, the Lincoln Tomb, the Haymarket Martyrs Monument, Hull House, the Eternal Indian Statue, the Vachel Lindsay Home and the South Side Communit y Art Center.
Charles Titus is an emeritus member of the History Department at Eastern Illinois University where he ta ught, among other courses, Illinois history.
Books will not be available for purchase at the event; however, for those who have copies he will be available to sign books following the event.
Exploring the Land of Lincoln can be purchase d for $19.95 (paperback) from Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble.com and the Univ ersity of Illinois Press.
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