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Welcome to our Springhouse!

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.

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SEASONAL VIEWS  Springhouse Country SURVIVOR Outstanding at Standing Out There is the Cosmos, that unspeakable vastness to which we all belong, and then there is the lesser cosmos, that flowering plant that belongs to us. The infinitely greater of the two has billions of blossoms, not to mention birds and insects and everything else. At best, our plant has a dozen blossoms plus one. The colors are purple and pink, This parched day in late July, a single blossom proves local color will be on display no matter what. Gary DeNeal, July 2010 PAST VIEWS: A collection of Gary's photos observations, and comments on Springhouse Country

 

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• Check in from time to time to see what the current issue has to offer. Always there will be changes because life is what it is, and this is Springhouse, The Adventure Shaped Like a Magazine.

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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.

OZARK ECHOES
(Letters [or stories] to the Editor)

Send your Letters to the Editor to Ozark Echoes, c/o Springhouse, P.O. Box 8, Herod, IL 62947, or send an email to: echoes@springhousemagazine.com

 

CURRENT ISSUE

Now in our 27th Year!

Here's what is in
Vol. 27.  No. 3
 of Springhouse.

Springhouse Ink

Ozark Echoes

Bicentennial Reflections - Tom Martin

Lovejoy - John J. Dunphy

From My Kitchen Window
- Dixie Terry

Treasure From Ohio - Brian DeNeal

South Sea Island King From Albion, Illinois - Walter Colyer

Of Jumbo Adams and the Queen's Pearl

100 Days of Summer - John J. Lesjack

Human Geography in the Illinois Ozarks - Clarence Bonnell

Taking Inventory, Sort of - Rebel Without Applause

Chester Loomis' Journey, On Horseback Through the Great West, Part 4, Transcribed & Introduced by  - Paul Stroble

That Mule Won't Ride - Kestner Wallace

100 Years in Illinois - John McLean, M.D.

Springhouse Magazine
P.O. Box 8
Herod, IL 62947
Phone 1-618-252-3341

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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