The ELM Back Porch Chautauqua Summer Series continues! Dr. Michael Wiant presenting:  This Land Was Our Land…“Thousands of years before Illinois … these Indians…hunted and fished the Illinois, the Sangamon, and the Spoon Rivers” (Edgar Lee Masters 1942:13).  In a single two-page document, The Treaty with the Peoria, ETC. 1818, the land that would become… Read More »Masters’ Back Porch Chautauqua June 2024