AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR

Peg Guilfoyle

Writer and speaker Peg Guilfoyle is the originator and writer of the wide-ranging Motley Peg small essay series. Her The Guthrie Theater: Images, History, and Inside Stories won a Midwest Book Award and an Independent Publishers Award.  Other books cover regional history, genealogy and essays, and theater life.

The Red Arrow Highway and the Fourth of July

The Red Arrow Highway and the Fourth of July

I was today years old when I figured out that my grandparents had told me a story that is apparently not true.  In my slow summery childhood, I traveled with them on many Fridays out of suburban Chicago, past industrial Gary, Indiana, and up to Michigan. Before the...

The Catalpa Are In Bloom Again

The Catalpa Are In Bloom Again

In the abundant summer, mature trees unveil themselves in all their power, ferociously alive, brilliantly vigorous and stretching up. Those that stand alone are particularly stunning, with their strong supports and barky architecture. There are groves sometimes, too,...

Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations

Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations

My bookshelves are crowded, and I sometimes think about off-loading, purging, thinking in passing “well, I’ll never read that again.” Then I wake up, slap myself briskly, and realize that in a sense my books are the architecture of the house my mind lives in. Each one...

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Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular letter to the friends of him who writes it.

–Robert Louis Stevenson