John Robert (Bob) Blaisdell, 104, died October 13, 2017, at home. Bob was born April 7, 1913, in Bradford, Illinois, to Ray Blaisdell and Julia Cooney Blaisdell. Bob attended high School in Bradford ...

Bob Blaisdell’s “Chekhov Becomes Chekhov” does exactly what its title promises: It tracks—story by story, month by month, sometimes day by day—how Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), the Moscow ...

Memorial services for Doris E. Blaisdell will be held at 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, September 29, 2010, at Moore’s Funeral Home, 2570 So Harvard in the Rosewood Chapel 744-1202 Doris Evelyn Bentley ...

This striking, luminously illustrated compendium from artist Nabil collects Palestinian folklore from Jerusalem’s Old City. The tales, many of them first-person encounters with Continue reading » ...