The statue of John Wood
Quincy’s founder, John Wood, is portrayed in a bronze sculpture on the southwest corner of Washington Park. The sculpture was originally created by Cornelius Volk in a studio at Third and Maine Street and then cast in bronze at a Philadelphia foundry. John Wood came to the Quincy area in 1822 and was mayor of Quincy from 1844-1848, 1852-1853 and again in 1856. Wood was elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1850. He was then elected Illinois Lieutenant Governor in 1857 and became Illinois’ 12th Governor when William Harrison Bissell died in 1860. The life-sized sculpture was completed three years after Wood died in 1880. A replica of the statue was donated by Quincy residents to the Illinois State Capitol Rotunda.
Illinois Adventure #1608 Pierre Menard Home State Historic Site
Sitting at the base of Garrison Hill Bluff, almost directly below Fort Kaskaskia, The Pierre Menard Home is one of the finest examples of Southern French Colonial architecture in the middle Mississippi River Valley. Pierre Menard, a French Canadian fur trapper and entrepreneur, began construction on this post-on-sill home in 1800 in the manner that most homes in the area were built, with hand-hewn timbers laid on the foundation (sills) and vertical studs mortised and tenoned into the sills. Local sandstone and limestone was used for the foundation, walks, and walls. Native woods used for the frame construction and finishing included oak, walnut, ash, cypress, and poplar. The home was built in a pecan grove and when the home was built it was at the edge of Kaskaskia village. Floods and erosion forced Kaskaskia to move and the Menard Home is all that is left of the original village that was once the first State Capitol of Illinois.
Illinois Stories | Rochester Log Cabin | WSEC-TV/PBS Springfield
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A Rochester woman bought a 1912 farm house. In gutting it to renovate, she discovers the original 1835 log cabin around which the house was built.
How has recreation changed your life?
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0:18 Jarrod Scheunemann, Campfire Concepts
0:31 LoriKay Paden, YMCA of Western North Carolina
0:44 Jessie Scheunemann, Campfire Concepts
0:52 Nick Troy, Des Plaines Park District
1:07 Steve Buchtel, GoodSpeed Cycles
1:24 Michele Hartwig, Ornery Mule Racing
1:51 Brian Romes, Park District of Highland Park
2:13 Shannon Olison, Homewood-Flossmoor Park District
2:16 Joe DeLuce, Champaign Park District
2:27 Barn Owl, Barns
2:34 Megan Owens, Western Illinois University
2:51 Matt Fairbanks, Illinois Park & Recreation Association
3:22 Keith Wallace, Lincolnway Special Recreation Association
3:41 Cori Veverka, Oswegoland Park District
3:51 Jan Hincapie, Semi-Retired / Consultant
4:31 Zach & Alyssa, Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament
4:44 Chuck Szoke, Gloriously Retired
5:43 Shelby McDonald, Waukegan Park District
5:46 John Robinson, Wood Dale Park District
6:12 Beluga Whale, Shedd Aquarium
6:17 Sherrie Izban, Bolingbrook Park District / LCSRA
6:32 Mitchell T. Fransen, City of Pontiac
7:11 Aquaman, DC Comics
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Illinois Adventure #1202 Gardener Museum of Architecture Design
Illinois Adventure visits the Gardener Museum of Architecture Design. The mission of the Gardner Museum of Architecture Design is to foster an increased awareness and appreciation of the architectural and design heritage of Quincy, the Upper Mississippi Valley, and the United States, while exploring influence and impact of national events on its development. This purpose is fulfilled by preserving and interpreting that heritage through research and preservation activity, the maintenance of document and artifact collections, and the development and presentation of exhibits and public educational programs.
Haunted Places in Illinois
From Chicago to Aurora, Joliet to Rockford, The Prairie State is packed with some terrifying and scary supernatural hot spots and haunted locations. Check em out!
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Round Barn - What Goes Round
Historic Round Barn located in Marengo, IL. Built in 1897 by WIllard Brothers Contractors and Builders - Belvidere, IL. Produced by Dean Rowe and John Fleener and Edited by Willow Tree Studios
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Come experience the Newly Renovated Fairfield Inn & Suites Quincy, IL Hotel. Coming to Quincy for Early Tin Dusters Fall Color Run, Looking For Lincoln, or just relax by the Mississippi River. Enjoy a clean comfortable stay at our Quincy, Illinois hotel. This Fairfield Inn by Marriott hotel is conveniently located near Quincy University, John Wood Community College, ADM, Harris Broadcast, Blessing Hospital, Niemann Foods, and Quincy Medical Group. John Wood Mansion and the Villa Katherine should be on your site seeing tour. Hannibal, Missouri and the Mark Twain sites are just a short drive.
Whether in Quincy for business or leisure, let the Fairfield Inn be your home away from home. Take advantage of our new on-site fitness center, guest laundry facilities, and on-site market.
22nd May 1849: Abraham Lincoln issued a patent for his invention
As a teenager the future President had taken a flatboat along the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. After moving to Illinois he was employed by Denton Offutt a merchant and owner of a general store, to ferry goods along the Mississippi and its tributaries.
During these river trips Lincoln’s boats had run aground on more than one occasion, leading to the exhausting process of freeing the boat before it sank or the cargo went overboard. These experiences were to provide the inspiration for his invention.
Lincoln is believed to have begun work on his device in 1848, in which ‘adjustable buoyant air chambers’ attached to the boat could be forced under the water and inflated to float the boat free of the obstruction without the need to unload any of the cargo. He filed an application to the Patent Office on 10 March 1849, and Patent No. 6469 was awarded two months later on 22 May.
A model of the device is said to have been produced with the assistance of Walter Davis, a mechanic from Springfield, although Paul Johnston from the National Museum of American History believes it may instead have been made in Washington. Whatever the truth behind the creation of the model, this is the furthest that Lincoln’s invention ever got since nobody ever tried to install the system on a full-size boat.
The model itself can be seen on display at the Smithsonian Institute, and is claimed by the curator of the Marine Collection to be ‘one of the half dozen or so most valuable things in our collection.’ The invention is also significant in that it makes Abraham Lincoln the only President in the history of the United States to have been awarded a patent.
Mystery at the Quincy Museum | Ellington Stone
The century old Quincy mystery of the Ellington Stone is presented in this short historical documentary. Special thanks to the Quincy Museum for their assistance in the production of this video.
Tri-State MakerFest Participants
2017 MakerFest Participants
A celebration of our manufacturing and logistics businesses, helping to build our regional workforce.
MakerFest showcases local businesses to area students and job seekers, giving guests an in-depth look at the manufacturing and logistics world, while also promoting available opportunities.
MakerFest | Wednesday, October 18 from 9a-3:30p
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9:00a-1:30p | 9-12 Student Open House
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John Adams' Desk at his home in Peace field
This is John Adams' desk at his home which he dubbed Peace field.
This home is about a mile away from his boyhood rural home in Quincy, MA. The desk featured in this video is the desk where Adams is believed to have written many of his letters later in life - including his famous correspondence with long time political rival and later friend, Thomas Jefferson.
Wheatland President Buchanan's Home
Video of a guided tour through President Buchanan's Home in Lancaster, PA.
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Illinois Adventure #1804 Dr. Richard Eells' Home
On this trip Illinois Adventure goes to the home of Dr. Richard Eells in Quincy, IL. Dr. Eells was the vice president of the Adams County Anti-Slavery Society, and in August 1842 an escaped slave named Charlie knocked on his back door. In this episode learn the events that lead to Dr. Eells' arrest and how his case was eventually taken all the way to the Supreme Court.
Illinois Adventure #1703 Lincoln's Tomb
Dedicated in 1874, Lincoln Tomb is the final resting place of Abraham Lincoln, his wife Mary, and three of their four sons, Edward, William, and Thomas. Also on the site is the public receiving vault, constructed ca. 1860, the scene of funeral services for Abraham Lincoln on May 4, 1865. In 1960 the Tomb was designated a National Historic Landmark and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.
The 117-foot Tomb, designed by sculptor Larkin Mead, is constructed of brick sheathed with Quincy granite. The base is 72-foot square with large semi-circular projections on the north and south sides. Double sets of north and south stairs lead to a terrace, above which rises the obelisk. At the corners of the shaft, large pedestals serve as bases for four bronze sculptures, each with a group of figures representing one of the four Civil War services—infantry, artillery, cavalry, and navy. A taller base on the obelisk's south side holds a heroic bronze statue of Lincoln. At the Tomb entrance is a bronze reproduction of Gutzon Borglum's marble head of Lincoln, located in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
How They Built A Net Zero Church. A success story.
How They Built A Net Zero Church
First Universalist Church of Denver renovated their old building into a net zero facility while adding 20% more space. Geothermal now runs heating and cooling, the roof space was optimized for a massive solar installation and the building envelope was tightened. In addition, daylighting was integral to the new design throughout.
John Bringenberg, Milt Hetrick, and Tom Abood were involved in the planning and report how they managed to pull off this ambitious project including financing in a community funded non-profit facility.
Organized by the Jefferson County chapter of the Colorado Renewable Energy Society. Contact: jcres@cres-energy.org.
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CRES features several local monthly speaker series throughout the state, provides speakers, experts, workshops and weighs in on state energy policy.
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Filmed and edited by Martin Voelker, CRES.
Cabin Alone in the Alaskan Wilderness - Dick Proenneke
This film is a documentary profile of conservationist and wildlife photographer, Dick Proenneke, at his home in the Lake Clark area of Alaska. It features close-up scenes of native wildlife, dramatic panoramas of the change of seasons and clips of Proenneke carving his log cabin out of the wild Alaskan wilderness.
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Oak Forest Gruesome Serial Killer
On June 14, 2001, Paul Frederick Runge, 31, was charged in Chicago with murdering and sexually assaulting six women and a 10-year-old girl in a string of sex attacks in Cook County and DuPage County between 1995 and 1997. The suspect, Paul Frederick Runge, has been behind bars since 1997, when he was arrested for a parole violation. Police said Runge has confessed to all seven killings and was linked to two of the crimes through DNA.
The victims were bludgeoned to death or strangled -- in most cases after he went to homes that had posted for-sale signs for various things, police said. Other victims were women who had responded to his help-wanted ads for someone to clean his home or merely acquaintances. Paul Runge is our worst nightmare, Cook County State's Attorney Richard Devine. He conned his way into women's homes or duped them into trusting him. He then raped and murdered them. Runge had been paroled in 1994 by the kidnaping and rape 15 years-old girl in 1987.
Runge is accused in the January 1995 killing of Stacey Frobel, 25, whose body was found in southern Wisconsin and Illinois. Frobel, the mother of a 6-year-old boy, was a friend of Runge's former wife. Six months later, Runge allegedly killed the two Hanover Park women, sisters Dzeneta and Ameal Pasanbegovic, 22 and 20. Both were recent immigrants from Bosnia who Runge allegedly lured to his home with the promise of house cleaning jobs. After allegedly killing them, Runge dismembered them in a bathtub and dumped their remains in trash bins.
Runge also is accused of the 1997 deaths of Dorota Dziubak, 30, who he killed after she advertised her Northwest Side house for sale; Yolanda Gutierrez, 35, and her 10-year-old daughter; and Kazimiera Paruch, 43, of Chicago, were killed after they advertised their condominium for sale.
On August 9 Paul Runge pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting and killing four women and a 10-year-old girl in Cook County. Runge previously pleaded not guilty in DuPage County to murder charges in the deaths of two Hanover Park sisters. Prosecutors said that Runge, confessed to the slayings.
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Frontiers 194: Dick Proenneke - At Home in the Wilderness
By Rhonda McBride, KTVA.
I remember the first time I heard Dick Proenneke’s name, I said, “Dick, what?”
The name Proenneke, pronounced “preh’-neck-key,” sounded so odd.
My colleague Will Mader, our main Frontiers photojournalist, brought it up. He’s a big fan of Proenneke’s.
Will had devoured Proenneke’s journals and watched all his films. He had even made the pilgrimage to Dick’s cabin at Lake Clark National Park and Wilderness Preserve and talked with me about doing a show on efforts to preserve his log house.
Why? Alaska has lots of log cabins. Why this one?
Will convinced me this was an important story to tell.
Since Proenneke’s death in 2003, his fame has continued to grow. But curiously, he’s better known outside of our state than he is here, because his film, Alone is the Wilderness, is often featured in public broadcasting fundraisers across the country.
The more I learned, the more intrigued I became.
Proenneke, at the age of 52, went to Twin Lakes to reinvent himself, after a welding accident almost blinded him.
His mission: to find out if he had what it took to survive in the wilderness. He started by cutting down logs and used them to build a cabin, fashioned completely with hand tools – some that he made himself. Proenneke went on to live in his homemade house for more than 30 years -- and through his journals and films became a famous wilderness advocate.
Will and I began our journey towards this week’s show more than two years ago, with a trip to Twin Lakes, where we had a chance to meet people who knew Dick Proenneke. It turned out to be what I call a Chinese box story, when you open one box, only to find another and another. There were plenty of surprises in those boxes – and we were left with an interesting collection.
Who was the real Dick Proenneke?
First and foremost, he aimed to leave his mark by treading lightly on the land, to have as little impact as possible on the wilderness he called home.
Although the country was remote, he discovered how fragile it was. He often spent his days picking up trash that hunters and pilots left behind.
Another facet of Dick Proenneke: he was a recycler extraordinaire, before the term was even widely used.
He would take discarded gas cans and turn them into cookware. He would salvage parts from airplane wrecks and fashion tools. He also made very user-friendly furniture, shaped to the curves of the body.
Dick Proenneke, we discovered, was many things to many people. That’s why we decided to create a special one-hour version of the show.
Here are some of the highlights:
• Dick Proenneke's personal frontier: The story of how Dick Proenneke became a wilderness icon.
• Handmade home: Efforts to restore Dick Proenneke’s cabin at Twin Lakes.
• Keepers of the legacy, the journals: John Branson, a National Park Service historian based at Lake Clark talks about editing more than 90 pounds of Proenneke notebooks.
• Keepers of the legacy, the archive: Katie Myers, a curator for the National Park Service shows us the Dick Proenneke collection at the NPS archives in downtown Anchorage.
• Friends and neighbors: With help from the NPS and the Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association, a look at friendships Dick had with his nearest neighbors -- Jay and Bella Hammond and the Alsworth Family.
• Wilderness princess: Former NPS ranger Patty Brown talks about her friendship with Dick Proenneke, who made her feel like royalty. How she came to hop off a float plane at Twin Lakes, wearing a black evening gown.
• Friends of Dick Proenneke and Lake Clark National Park: Fred Hirschmann shares his memories of Dick and talks about the need to protect and preserve the Proenneke homestead.
We have many, many people to thank for their help: John Branson and Katie Myers at the National Park Service, the Alsworth's Lake Clark Air, the Hammond family, the Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association, Fred Hirschmann and the Friends of Dick Proenneke and Lake Clark National Park, and Bob Swerer Productions.
Perhaps the biggest joy of a project like this is all the friends you meet. We hope this show raises awareness about a great Alaskan, who is not well known in his own state. So here’s our attempt to change that.