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The Silent Screams of a Nation: Walking the Ground My Great-Grandfather Fought For

The Silent Screams of a Nation: Walking the Ground My Great-Grandfather Fought For As I traveled through Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Georgia, and Florida on the final leg of The Great American Heartland Tour—a six-and-a-half-month journey that carried us through 22 states—I found myself walking the same ground my great-grandfather once marched. John Newton Prentice served as an infantryman with Company … Read More

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Moses Higgins: A Face from Home

Moses Higgins: A Face from Home In the middle of the Civil War, far from Illinois, my great-grandfather John Newton Prentice recorded a small but meaningful moment in his 1862 diary. On July 19, while camped in Mississippi with the 57th Illinois Infantry, he wrote: “Discovered Moses Higgins to be in our Regiment for the first time.” Moses G. Higgins … Read More

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Standing Where My Great Grand Father Stood In The Civil War: Allatoona Pass, October 2026

Standing Where He Stood: Allatoona Pass, October 2026 One hundred sixty-two years to the day after the guns fell silent, I walked the Allatoona Pass Battlefield in Bartow County, Georgia — the same ground my great-grandfather, John Newton Prentice, defended on October 5, 1864. John was nineteen when he enlisted in Company A of the 57th Illinois Volunteer Infantry in … Read More

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Stepping Back in Time at the Battle of Camp Wildcat Reenactment

Stepping Back in Time at the Battle of Camp Wildcat Reenactment We pulled into the Battle of Camp Wildcat reenactment site near Hazel Patch, just outside London, Kentucky, about an hour before the main battle was set to start. The plan was simple: walk the camps first, see how the reenactors lived the day, then watch the fight. What we … Read More

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Exquisite Cosmic Coincidence

Story Read to you by me: Exquisite Cosmic Coincidence The Perfect Alignment of Sun, Moon, and Earth Of all the moons in our solar system—hundreds of them orbiting the gas giants and smaller worlds—none produces the precise, breathtaking spectacle of a total solar eclipse the way Earth’s Moon does. The Sun is roughly 400 times wider than the Moon, yet … Read More

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Perryville Battlefield: Kentucky’s Bloodiest Day —

Perryville Battlefield: Kentucky’s Bloodiest Day — Update: October 12, 2026 Almost a 164 years after this horrific battle, I step back in time. Same season, same drought and same weather. Perryville Battle Field’s erie stillness and quiet day brought many emotions and thoughts to my mind as we wondered through the valleys and rolling hills. To say the least it … Read More

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Kentucky – Bourbon Kisses

Continuing down the road on The Great American Heartland Tour. We rolled into Mackville, Kentucky and settled in at Eddie and Cheryl Young’s place, Andrea’s aunt and uncle’s farm. The pond sits right there with ducks and geese working the water, donkeys and cattle on the grass, and the kind of quiet that makes you notice how close the rest … Read More

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Alpha Gal Syndrome – Aricular Therapy Treatment Day 2)

Day 2 of the ear seeds, and the day behaved exactly the way she said it would. Read Previous Article on Day One Treattment I did not feel a turn. No clearing. No new appetite for the foods I have kept off the plate since the Lone Star tick rewrote the rules. The tiny seeds stayed where she placed them, … Read More

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Alpha Gal Treatment

Greetings, readers. Two days ago I told you I had an appointment with Dr. Malisha Craney, N.D., of Clear Pathways to Health in Martinsville, Indiana, for Alpha-Gal Syndrome. Today that appointment happened. This is the first treatment update. I still live without red meat and dairy. That part has not changed in one afternoon, and I am not going to … Read More

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Coming home to Paw Paw

Coming Home to Paw PawA family visit, a festival, and the names that keep coming back Some towns you pass through. Paw Paw is the kind you carry. This past weekend we stood in Wyoming Cemetery under Illinois sky and then walked into the annual Pawpaw Festival like we had been expected. We were. The Prentices who still live in … Read More