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There was a time when many springs were topped by springhouses, small buildings often constructed of stone. Spring water issues from the earth at a constant temperature of about 65 degrees in any season of the year. Although built for keeping cool milk and cream and other perishables, a springhouse also served as an escape from summer heat and a quiet retreat when company got too boisterous.

SEASONAL VIEWS  Springhouse Country Watching Not so long ago, Old Stone Face was picnicked so frequently one would have thought the old girl might have broken into a frown. She didn’t. These days, Saline County’s once-symbol stares into the western distance and is mostly ignored. Being mostly ignored is what Old Stone Face does best. The Indians paid her little mind, and neither did the settlers under the weight of their rifles and axes. The last glacier managed to inch its grimy vastness almost to bluff’s edge never dreaming it was being observed by a face wind had taken its time sculpting from sandstone. We enter, we exit; the Old Stone Face stays right where it is. Victim of moods and circumstance, we exhibit body language at first opportunity. We dance, we weep, we write speeches and rob banks and rescue people from burning buildings, but Old Stone Face just stares into the western distance. For her watchfulness is everything. From time to time it is good, I think, to turn our minds to this all but forgotten rock formation that may resemble us but is otherwise not like us at all. Gary DeNeal PAST VIEWS: A collection of Gary's photos, observations, and comments on Springhouse Country

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Accustomed to jousting with windmills, thinking they were dragons, the old Spanish knight Don Quixote seemed perfect for our cover. From the beginning, our very existence has always seemed something of an anomaly, a break in the order of things, and while we always saw windmills as windmills only, in other ways Springhouse ventured forth no better prepared than Don Quixote would have been. Eager to offer our two cents worth of insight when study and analysis were required, we carved our niche into the landscape without taking on a single windmill.

Incidentally, the drawing of Don was used in early issues from time to time and first appeared on the June 1986 cover. From that point on this ancient knight of ancient Spain has proudly raised his lance on the left-hand corner of every Springhouse and will continue to do so until our Adventure Shaped Like A Magazine heads into the sunset.

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CURRENT ISSUE

Marking the Beginning of our
25th Year of Publication!

Here's what is in
Vol. 25.  No. 1
 of Springhouse.

Springhouse Ink

Ozark Echoes

Memory Lapses - Paul Stroble

Memories of a Coal Mining Town - William Searles

Little League Manager - Lois Fowler Barrett

Harrisburg's Founding Fathers - Gillum Ferguson

Brooklyn, Ill., An Underground Railroad Town - John Dunphy

Granddaddy & Pony Boy - Kestner Wallace

Two Portraits of Lincoln - Wayne C. Temple

History of the English Settlement, Part XV - George Flower

From My Kitchen Window
- Dixie Terry

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Rawhide, our favorite rebel, made his SH debut with these, his first five contributions - and he's been a Springhouse regular ever since.

Rawhide Chronicles 1
Rawhide Chronicles 2
Rawhide Chronicles 3
Rawhide Chronicles 4
Rawhide Chronicles 5