Echoes of Purple and Gold

by Jack Keefe

In Echoes of Purple and Gold, Jack Keefe stacks local history like cordwood, telling forgotten tales and making odd connections that people no longer suspect.

What school kid hasn't heard--or heard about--the story of Ichabod Crane in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"? He was both fictional and real. The fictional Crane is the one everyone knows about. But there were also two real ones. One was a military man in the nineteenth century;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1662444648
• ISBN13: 9781662444647
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Page Publishing
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

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This book has chapters of different historical stories of Central Illinois. But anyone reading this book would find the stories very interesting. The author is easy to read and makes each story very interesting. Each chapter has been thoroughly researched and the author is very accurate in the telling of the stories.