Sue Glasco's Writings
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Nov.14.2010
2004 edition of Stories and Poems by Members of Southern Illinis Writers Guild
Keith, my husband's brother, is the family poultry specialist. He arrived at Swallow Lake with a laughing apology: "I know you said not to bring a housewarming gift." Then he explained he had already promised to bring Gerald this gift of six ducks for our little lake.The lake was iced at the time, and one duck immediately got herself...
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Nov.14.2010
Most of the following article appeared Springhouse Magazine in June 2002. All rights reserved.
Summertime stirs memories. Cool dank air rising from the well. And the warmth of sun and family love.
Mother and Dad taught eight months a year in the small town of Jonesboro in Southern Illinois. In the 1940s, that meant no salary for four months. They survived summers by renting our home and moving to their farm near Goreville. Summer cash income was...
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Nov.14.2010
Springhouse
Warm feelings of security come when I remember my parents visiting with family and friends at Mount Airy Farm during the summer evenings.
Daddy had bought his home place there for our summer use. He would rent out our house in town and have a little cash income, and he would grow a small corn crop to help feed the cattle the next winter. My parents had more...
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Nov.13.2010
Soluthern Illinois University Press, 2010
A wonderful surprise came in the mail the other day: a new book by my friend Dr. Hua-Ling Hu, who is soon moving back to Southern Illinois from Colorado. Hu is also the author of American Goddess at the Rape of Nanking: The Courage of Minnie Vautrin.
This new book The Undaunted Women of Nanking: The Wartime Diaries of Minnie Vautrin and Tsen Shui-fang is...
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About Sue
Sue Glasco spent her childhood in the small town of Jonesboro in Southern Illinois and she has loved small towns ever since. During the four summer months when her teacher parents had no salary, she spent her early summers at Mt....
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