Upriver Sangamon Highwater Adventure

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Sangamon Rx

October is fast approaching, and we all know what that means. Required “Obamacare” sign up of course! And with all the hubbub and debate surrounding required health insurance, I have my own healthcare prescription. Yes, we’ve all heard some of the scary statistics regarding our health: Fewer than 20% of adults achieve the recommended minimum of 150 minutes per week […]

A Particular Piece of Land

There is a particular piece of land. It is just north of here along the Sangamon River and east of the Hazen Bridge. And on a rise along County Road 2600N just east of the Hazen Bridge, there is a sign posted by the U of I Foundation that a man named “Jack Commodore Richmond” donated this particular piece of […]

Sangamon River: By the numbers

246 miles – Total length of the Sangamon River from Arrowsmith, Illinois to its confluence with the Illinois River at Beardstown, Illinois. 7 feet – Distance across the Sangamon River at its confluence with Crooked Creek at our place during the drought of 2012. 12.67 feet – Height of the Sangamon River at the Fisher Gage where US 136 crosses […]

Duck Dynasty: Mahomet

This week, Notes from the River gets in on the action from the latest breakaway hit cable reality-show phenom: Duck Dynasty: Mahomet. Recently we had the opportunity to interview several of the show’s stars, a hirsute, tight-knit family of common, everyday folks running a highly successful local Mahomet operation. In the past few years, they have seen the fame and […]