on NPR's Takeaway: Author says Arizona represents America's political past -- not its future
Remembering Don West
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Commentator Jeff Biggers remembers a forgotten literary star.
El Latino Midwest
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Commentator Jeff Biggers says an influx of Latino immigrants has improved Beardstown, the southern Illinoistowns of his youth.
Down in Eagle Creek
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Last year, in the Sierra Madre canyons in Mexico, I labored in the corn fields with a Tarahumara Indian, as part of a travel story. After weeding the fields, I returned to our cabin to read a letter from my Uncle Richard in Kentucky.
Our family homestead, down in southern Illinois, was gone. The old pond, the four plum trees, the corn fields, and the 200-year-old log cabin, were all buried in a crater, two hundred feet deep. A coal mining company had bought the hollow where my mother's family had lived for two centuries and blasted away our home. Continue reading