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Fire & Iron Poker Run raises funds for children’s home
This past Saturday, Fire & Iron Motorcycle Club held their 12th annual poker run/fundraiser. According to a news release, the event started in Warden and had stops in Carlinville, Taylor Springs, Mulberry Grove, and ended in Greenville with a silent auction, live auction, attendance prizes and to announce the winner of the run. The top three poker hands won cash prizes which the winners donated all back to the club. All money raised was donated to the Hoyleton children’s home.
Wise World of Wellen presented by Salem Eye Clinic
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“Your Early 20s Are the Demo Tape”: An Interview with Liz Riggs About “Lo-Fi”
In the spring of 2020, music venues around the world went dark, and Nashville—a city where live music greets you in the airport—felt particularly quiet to Liz Riggs. She’d just submitted her MFA thesis and was thinking back to when she first moved to the city a decade before, and a girl she’d once seen stamping hands at a local venue. To a time that felt even more distant in the eerie silence of the pandemic; a sardine-tight audience, a thumping bass. She opened her notebook and wrote the first line of what would become her potent, simmering debut novel Lo-Fi.
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