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A small prairie full of hundreds (thousands?) of blazing stars in bloom. Sundown Meadow is a Forest Preserve of Cook County.

The year after the Mississippi trip Jolliet went from Sault Ste. Marie to Quebec to report his results and Marquette was sent from Green Bay to the Illinois at Kaskaskia.

Script uses quotations from Father Dablon's Recit from the Jesuit Relations to tell the story of the expedition in 1673 of Louis Jolliet and Father Marquette to the Mississippi river to determine where it emptied and to contact the Illinois.

In 1673 Marquette and Jolliet and five other men left St. Ignace at the straits of Mackinac and made their way to the Mississippi river. The story or "Recit" of their trip was written by Father Claude Dablon, the superior of Jesuit missions in Canada, who sent it back to Paris as part of his annual report. Much of the "Recit" is written in first person, and many believe these passages represent...

A retelling of he story of Marilyn Bell's swim across Lake Ontario in 1954.

A summer walk into Wolf Road Prairie in Westchester IL, identifying a few of the flowers and plants. Accompanied by "Shenandoah" performed by The Tony Rice Unit.

Willie Sutton interviews Frank Jackson's Mary, who describes her time in the Black and White Room and what happened to her after that.

Kathleen (Keen) Harrison describes her 15-year old Project Harambee that builds human capacity in Africa via marketing and selling African crafts here in the USA, promoting animal sponsorship programs (pigs, goats, and chickens), and funding medical education for doctors (Grow a Doc) and nurses (Grow a Nurse) in Africa.

Male red-bellied woodpecker on tree trunk calling, accompanied by Roy Orbison's "Crying."

Willie Sutton talks about Elizabeth Anscombe's pamphlet called "Mr. Truman's Degree" and its relation to the tobacco companies and food industry.

Manger full of lights in my front yard, accompanied by "Away in a Manger Blues" by JC and the Revival.

1978 Belmont Stakes horse race between Affirmed and Alydar with music by B.B. King (The Thrill is Gone) and a poem by Bernard Gunther connecting the horse race to love and marriage.

Title says it all. Filmed at Wolf Road Prairie. Uses Blueberry Hill by Fats Domino as soundtrack.

Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural, March 4, 1865

John Banaszak Releases a Monarch at Wolf Road Prairie August 28, 2017

Yellow Garden Spider Eating a Ladybug

Small Opossum at Wolf Road Prairie Resting in Robin's Nest

A Life

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Sandhill Cranes Over Wolf Road Prairie, February 20, 2017

Why Not Become Totally Changed Into Fire?

We Become Birds

Harvesting Corn with a Combine

Summer Wildflowers at Wolf Road Prairie: Obedient Plant and Blazing Star

Summer Wildflowers at Wolf Road Prairie: Rattlesnake Master and Culver's Root

Cecropia and Polyphemus Caterpillars

Female Ruby-Throated Hummingbird Feeding on Milkweed Flower in Backyard

Summer Wildflowers at Wolf Road Prairie: Compass Plant and Prairie Dock