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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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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 30th Year!

Here's what is in
Vol. 30,  No. 2
 of Springhouse.

Springhouse Ink

A Madison County Soldier in Virginia's Bloody Soil - John J. Dunphy

Elba, A Gallatin County Ghost Town - William Searles 

George Harrison In Southern Illinois -  William Furry

From My Kitchen Window - Dixie Terry

Frontier Days in Illinois Territory: 1800-1805 - John Reynolds

Hillside Country Grocer - J. Robert Smith

To Whistle Or Not To Whistle

Politics of Years Ago  - Kestner Wallace

The Rebel's Heavily Edited, Possibly Final Message

Going To Bed Before A Lady - "M"

A Tale of Two Books

Two Newspapers

Deadly White-Nose Syndrome Has Affected Illinois Bats - Brian DeNeal

The Future of Southern Illinois: A Prediction - Charles D. Tenney

Charles D. Tenny, the Man Behind the Words At Morris Library  - Gordon Pruett

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