Do you know what this is? If you do, you have a few years under your belt.

It's an old-time smokehouse, and it is just one of the many displays at this year's Railsplitting Festival showing what times were like in the early days of settlement in central Illinois.

Photograph by Mike Fak (click on picture for larger image)

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CLOSE UP: NEW Sept. 12th
 Heartland Community College Web page class, DivorceCare seminar plus much more
Zooming in on the people, places and things that make this community  interesting!

sponsored by CHRIS COYNE, Agent - State Farm Insurance

Civic

Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial

The Lincoln Log