by Sears Homes | May 2, 2011 | Uncategorized |
In Spring 2010, I traveled to Cairo, Illinois to do research for my book, The Sears Homes of Illinois. In Cairo, I met up with a dear friend, Richard Kearney, who was kind enough to spend an entire day with the affable author (that’d be me). Richard, a lifelong...
by Sears Homes | May 2, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Despite a last-minute plea from desperate Missourians, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the plan to flood 132,000 acres of prime Missouri farmland will go forward. Flooding the farms will spare the tiny town of Cairo, Illinois, population – 2,800. The...
by Sears Homes | May 1, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Monday night (May 2), they finally did it. The Army Corp of Engineers blew the levees at Birds Point in Southeast Missouri, flooding 200 square miles of Missouri’s best farmland. The farms – those silly patches of black dirt where we produce the food that...
by Sears Homes | Mar 3, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Yesterday, I was delighted to learn that the first printing of “The Sears Homes of Illinois” (printed late November 2010), has sold out. This is very good news. Now I did some ciphering and if I can sell 1.3 million copies, I can fulfill my promise to...
by Sears Homes | Feb 25, 2011 | Uncategorized |
In its heyday, Cairo was a bustling river town and was home to captains of industry, shipping magnates, wealthy business people and other “people of note.” It’s even mentioned in James A Michener’s epic miniseries, “Centennial.” IT...
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