Author Archives: Roger Wright
When Linda Ronstadt Sings
Cassie is the name I’ve given to the homeless woman who walks by our house, and Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s house, early every morning and returns by the very same route every evening. Sometimes, when the weather is bad, I … Continue reading
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The Christian’s Runaway Train
I am Rich Christian. I drive the runaway train. Down the tracks, sliced through time. Every year in October, when you hear some story of a ghost train rumbling with no one at the helm? When someone mentions an unexplainable … Continue reading
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Kate Warne Never Sleeps
Kate Warne was the nation’s first female detective. She died at 38 of congestion of the lungs and is buried in the Pinkerton family plot in Graceland Cemetery Chicago. Where every October she gets a visitor who comes to … Continue reading
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RE-HOME SPIRIT
Appreciation of “The Child Exchange” Americans using the internet to abandon children adapted from overseas. Reuters. Continue reading
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Augustus and Charles Dickens
Graceland Cemetery in Chicago is the final resting place of a collection of both known and unknown souls from the worlds of commerce, the arts, sports and government. And whether it’s the autumn breezes, or the inspiration of Edgar Lee … Continue reading
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After Baseball Ended
After baseball died. . .what replaced it? Continue reading
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Steel Town Love
Redemption from Gary Indiana. . . . Continue reading
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Marian McPartland–A Tribute
Marian McPartland in Chicago Continue reading
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At Walker’s Restaurant
In Chicago, Walker’s Restaurant stood across the road from the former site of The Selig Polyscope Studios where the first Wizard of Oz Films were made. The true story of how Walker’s came to be or where it went is a story that has yet to be told. Continue reading
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Her Foolish Heart
Nanci Koschman, hope, power, my foolish heart, bill evans Continue reading
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