The Year of the Locust

Often folks ask why folks call Southern Illinois “Little Egypt” and you have to tell them it all started with the year of the locust. It’s not entirely true, of course, but locusts carry forth the sort of poetic resonance the rest of the story holds.  In 1799, this old Baptist minister named — you’ll never…

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