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Illinois Heritage Volume 11 Number 3
May - June 2008

Feature Articles:

bullet2008 Verna Ross Orndorff scholarship winner (page 6)
bulletHighlights of the 2008 Illinois History Symposium (page 9)
bulletLetters home: Votre petit protege (page 10)
bulletAbraham Lincoln in Macon County, part II, Lincoln the Lawyer (page 11)
bulletSociety presents annual awards at the Executive Mansion (page 15)
bulletGoing strong at 106: Edna Harpster reflects on her century in central Illinois (page 18)
bulletLincoln in sculpture, part 10 (page 22)
bulletFighting war on the homefront (page 24)
bullet2008 symposium banquet address (page 25)

Departments:

bulletTo our readers (page 2)
bulletPresident's message (page 3)
bulletLetters (page 4)
bulletNews (page 4)
bulletThe honor roll (page 35)

On the Cover:

Edna Mae Robertson (soon-to-be Harpster) dressed up for her high school graduation in 1920. Born in 1902, Edna Mae has never lived more than 50 miles from her home in Coles County. She shares a bit of her story in an interview beginning on page 18.

                Photo courtesy of Edna Mae Harper

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