Dr. Bailey Shaw is a professor of English at Lincoln Land Community College and author of a book chapter in #Metoo and Modernism published by Clemson University Press. Shaw will present "Memory and Understanding in the Poetry of Thomas Hardy". Thomas Hardy, a contemporary of Edgar Lee Masters, grew up in the rural English countryside… Read More »Masters’ Back Porch Chautauqua September 2024
Herbert K. Russell is one of the foremost authorities on Masters’ life and works. His 2001 Edgar Lee Masters: A Biography published by the University of Illinois Press is the first book-length biography of the poet and is widely considered the definitive story of the poet’s life. Russell is the retired Director for College Relations… Read More »Masters’ Back Porch Chautauqua July 2024
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
