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Backyard vintners do it for fun, profit, lifestyle

Growing gapes can be a rewarding pursuit. They're appealing to the eye, pleasing to the palate, a profitable sideline, and a reason for parties and neighborhood togetherness. Small wonder so many vineyards are cropping up in people's yards.

December 11, 2012 12:00 am

Arts education offered to the masses

Works of art are stacked in Rachel Malcolm Ensor's studio space that she will be opening as the Burton Studio School for the Visual Arts in Murphysboro, Ill. Ensor will begin teaching courses this month.

September 02, 2012 12:00 am

Arts education offered to the masses

Rachel Malcolm Ensor stands in the studio space that she will be opening as the Burton Studio School for the Visual Arts in Murphysboro, Ill. Ensor will begin teaching courses this month.

September 02, 2012 12:00 am

Arts education offered to the masses

MURPHYSBORO, Ill. | Rachel Malcolm Ensor has devoted her life to education.

September 01, 2012 6:00 pm Photos

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Drilling prospects bring land rush to Illinois

Wayne County Clerk Glenda Young, second from right, assists a group of "lease hounds" from Texas as they pore over land records in search of mineral rights holders at the courthouse in Fairfield, Ill.

May 13, 2012 12:00 am

Drilling prospects bring land rush to Illinois

McLEANSBORO, Ill. | It's not a festival or the 19th century architecture that's drawing the late-model cars from Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Pennsylvania to the downtown square in this tiny, southern Illinois community.

May 13, 2012 12:00 am