Backtracking

Backtracking Zephyr's award-winning column about geneology and local history
by Terry Hogan

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From Eccentric to Heroine: a Female Soldier in the Civil War
Stearman: History on the Wing
Would I Stear(man) You Wrong?
Homeburg revisited
Zephyr's Big 21
Memorial Day at Lake Bracken
Stolen Bases (by Louise Hogan)
Brush Creek School
Depression
Linkin' Lincoln to Galesburg
Starting the search
Beyond here there be dragons
Lake Bracken in Winter
The ducks of Lake Bracken
Early, really early, Lake Bracken
Specks in the Sky: Stearman preview 2008
Geni.com: a free family tree website worth looking into
Who's buried in Lincoln's Tomb?
The Madison Regatta 2008
The 714th Railroad Batallion
"Lost" Swedish Family Found in Galesburg by Virginia Sholin Smallwood
Cars back when
The mystery of Cherry Grove
The early History of Knox County, Illinois
- Part I -- When there were prairies
- Part II -- Changes on the horizon
- Part III -- Civilization and organization
- Part IV -- Playing trains
- Part V -- Townships and towns
- Part VI -- More townships
- Part VII -- The battle for the County Seat
- Part VIII -- At war
- Part IX -- Organizations and societies
- Part X -- Mobility
It's a Small world
Lincoln in Galesburg 150 years ago
In pursuit of ancestors
2007: Another year gone by
Galesburg: 1937 and 2007
Santa in the global economy
With the Help of a Friend
Leroy the goose
Halloween -- ghostly memories
Mapping history
Retirement
The Galesburg Land Company
Ode to a geode
Quiet skies: The Stearman are gone again
Stearman Storming Galesburg 2007
The Madison Regatta 2007: Silence on the River
Justina Ford: The Lady Doctor
Got paper?
Don Herbert: oh, what a wizard he was
The Fulton County Narrow Gauge Railroad
Genesis of a Railroad
Traveling in Illinois in 1842
Lincoln in Monmouth after the" debate"
Backtracking the Y-Chromosome
The Wataga New-Herald, 1903
Genetic genealogy
Who was Bob Zurke?
The Other Side of the Lens
Going Home, 2006
George Fitch, Father of "Old Siwash"
Carl Sandburg's last home
Andersonville revisited
Who's your (Hoosier) relative?
President Carter at home
Bagdad and the American Civil War
It's about flying
Silent Sky: The 2006 National Stearman Fly-In
Orville H. Browning
The Madison Regatta 2006 -- in the wake of tragedy
My Dear Phantoms
Galesburg's Other Railroads
Lake Bracken Fishkill
My war
Galesburg's Sandburg
Remembering Kiddieland
Ticking Away
Galesburg's History in Photographs
The Final Four in Indianapolis
Do you remember when?
Staring at 60
The birth and death of Abingdon College
The Greenbush vigilantes
Lincoln, going home
Got gas?
Galesburg's "Dream machine" up in smoke
The other Zephyr newspaper
A Cat named "Ducks"
Olof Hanson, from Sweden to the Civil War
Galesburg's Glenwood Ice Company
It was a drake and stormy night...
John Hobbs Brown -- A Seed in the Wind
Knoxville: September 13, 1853
Don't marry a hometown girl
The old well
Wendell Berry: in search of a coherent community
The noble outhouse
Kathryn Scott: One of Galesburg's own
Greece: The Land of Cats
Selling Fuller Brushes: The View From My Side of the Screen
In praise of stamp collecting
Norman Rockwell: Illustrating America
Aria in the air: Stearman biplanes return to Galesburg
Chicago: What goes around comes around
Expo: Magic of the White City (a review of the DVD)
Time and Stearmen
Ten years ago
The "Peoria Blackbird" and Knoxville's Fred Kimble
Preparing for certainty
Documenting history
Galesburg: home of the rubber stamp?
O.T. Johnson's -- Galesburg's Dream Machine
The Madison Regatta 2005 -- not all "just ducky"
Planes, trains and automobiles ... and boats
Tracking History
John Forbes and the CB & Q
You'd Have to Invent Me -- Archy and Mehitabel
America's Worst War
In search of gold
When Helga met Jack
Take this Carl Sandburg quiz
A tale of father and son
Water under the bridge
Shanghai City -- the one in Warren County, Ill.
Treasure hunting -- unclaimed assets
Masters and Darrow: the odd couple
End of the road
Burma Shave: Signs of the times
The Lincoln connection
Nils William Olsson - Revised Book
The diving submarine
Illinois Civil War veterans
The family crest
In Sandburg's tracks
The Prairie Journal -- Ahead of Its Time
A token follow-up
It was a dark and stormy night...
The good old days
On turning two (by Terry & Louise Hogan)
Camp Morton
The Quest for the northwest passage
Bishop Hill: A failed utopia
Power play
In search of treasure
Political correctness
Spirit in the sky: Stearman 2004
The Stearmen take to the skies over Galesburg again
The dreaded 40th high school reunion
There's something about a train
Steaming up the river
All things Sandburg
Carl Sandburg: Going home
Interurbans and trolleys
Galesburg's oldest living emerging poet
Ernest about flowers
Andersonville: the Knox County connection
Carl Sandburg: The Prairie Years
Pester a few, bore the many
Puttin' on the show
Built like a ... brick yard
Readers write back
The Lake Bracken story, parts I, II, III & IV
Lucky Boy Bakery: Not so much as a crumb
Charles R. Walgreen, One of Galesburg’s Own
Another Christmas
The logic of a 2-year-old
Galena: getting the lead out
A token article
Multipart series on Bishop Hill and Swedish immigration:
- Bishop Hill: Swedish Roots in Illinois Soil
- Swedish Roots in Illinois Soil, part I
- Swedish Roots in Illinois Soil, part II
- Swedish Roots in Illinois Soil, part III
- Swedish Roots in Illinois Soil, part IV
- Swedish Roots in Illinois Soil, part V
Stearman: With grace and glory
Stearing back to Galesburg
Loon on Lake Bracken
The Madison Regatta: Best of the old and new
An Evil Wind from the Windy City
Chicago’s World Fair and The Big Wheel - 110 Years Ago
Confessions of a Sandburg and eBay junkie
You can bank on it
The Sultana, A Forgotten Tragedy
Emily Arnold McCully, Galesburg’s own
Belle Reynolds: a Civil War saga
A. Lincoln, Railroad Attorney
On turning four
Putting Meat on the Bones
New Electronic Tool for Hunting Relatives
Barnstorming- Loss of Rural America
eBay, A Genealogist’s Tool
The curse of Chief Bracken
Tobacco silks of Knox and Lombard
Those magnificent Stearman
Artemisia- Good Triumphs Over Evil
Getting high with Stearman
When We Were Young
The Madison Regatta
Riding the Zephyr
Home
Cholera
Through Your Great Grandfather’s Eyes
The Prairie Mayflower: Mays Wind-Mill
Chicago, Wisconsin?
Duck and cover
At Butler Mfg., a long time ago
The Christmas geese
Grave responsibilities
Thankful at Thanksgiving
Ghosts, not letters, are supposed to be scary
There's a reason it's called genealogy
A & W: On a hot summer evening
In praise of the old, old Knox County Court House
In a Monmouth courtroom
Solid as a Post
You know you're old when...
Little things.
The three-legged bathtub.
Galesburg's "Glory" troops.
The first 100 years of Knox College... more or less.
"Those were The Days".
The Lucky Boy Bakery bomber.
- The Lucky Boy Bakery bomber update.
Random thoughts.
Monmouth Pottery's "Sleepy Eye".
A few genealogical tips.
The sounds of silence: Ernest Elmo Calkins.
Paving the way.
Christmas, a long time ago.
The making of history.
A hunting we will go.
Thanksgivings past.
Lombard's Starr professor.
Island in the prairie.
Blowing out the moral lights.
Halloween parade.
Barefoot.
Old Siwash to name football stadium after Eugene Field?
The Stearmans come back to Galesburg.
Albert Britt predicted problems with big-time college sports.
Observations of a foreigner.
The County Fair.
Death rides on every passing breeze.
George Brown was a corn planter magnate.
Tales of Lake George.
Old ancestors and new technology.
A family tragedy.
What's in a name? Towns that may or may nothave existed.
Galesburg's Top Sergeant.
The Condor's cargo.
The non-emigrants.
An abiding sense of tragedy.
Mother Bickerdyke: She (out)ranks me.
Why two Kay?
They're gone.
Galesburg City directories: a piece of the elephant.
The Military Carr.
Lombard College: alive and well in Chicago..
The kitchen table.
A mid-summer night's dream.
Those magnificent flying machines.
Net geneology: let the surfer beware.
Lost to time.
Galesburg's railroad Carrs.
Pickpocketing in Paris.
The emigration: the trip from Sweden to Illinois.
One way trip: Gavle to Wataga.
Heroism once: heroes forever: Medals of Honor.
The Swedish Co.-- soldiers from Galesburg.
Det svenska kompaniet (The Swedish Co.). (svenska, (In Swedish))
John Van Ness Standish: an educator known for his trees.
Railroad ties.
History begins at home.
Everybody's gotta get stoned.
The gift of history.
The Gale who stole Christmas.
Albert Britt: an American that was.
Always The Young Strangers: A window on yesterday.
The Club House at Lake Bracken.
Genealogy Begins At Home.
The Swedish Bible.
Fairy tracks.
Worse than a horse thief.
Abe Lincoln a Supreme Court no-show.
The lost Shaubena silver mine.
Lucky Boy Bread: Locally baked and delivered.
Does anybody remember Saluda?
Surveying history.
A rose is a rose is a....
Every picture tells a story.

Last updated October 24, 2009