From: The Register Mail (Galesburg, IL)
A Kellogg Street building is getting a makeover this month, thanks to a collaborative project between Knox College students and the art department’s artist in residence. Danielle Kimzey, 31, Irvine, Calif., is participating in the residency program through October. As part of her six-week program, Kimzey is working with four students to transform a wall of The Box, a gallery at Kellogg and Simmons streets, into a wall painting…
On Wednesday, Kimzey and two of the students worked on the mural, climbing the scaffold to continue working on the large, triangular sections of bright colors… Kimzey said she hopes the mural will be something for people to enjoy for years to come. “Everyone’s been very welcoming and super nice here,” she said… Read more…
From: Fox News - Business
While Annie Dugan was “catastrophically” ill, her sister, Mary [Knox College Class of 1979], became certified in manual lymphatic drainage, which is a type of massage meant to aid the natural drainage of the fluid that circulates throughout the lymphatic system. Annie was getting better, and she and Mary moved to a cottage in Beverly to officially start a healing center.
During that time, the sisters kept working on a homemade deodorant that was first sold to the public in 2007. The natural deodorant, called lifestinks, is sold online and in stores around Chicago and elsewhere… Their firm was selected “Small Business of the Day” on FoxBusiness.com… Read more…
From: State Journal Register (Springfield, IL)
About a year ago, I drove from Bloomington to Champaign for a long-anticipated viewing of filmmaker Paul Bonesteel’s documentary, “The Day Carl Sandburg Died.”… [which premiered on PBS on] Monday, Sept. 24. [Several Knox College faculty and alumni were involved in the production, and scenes included Sandburg’s] early morning walks across Galesburg’s Knox College campus, home of an 1858 debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas. He’d stop “in winter sunrise, in broad summer daylight, in falling snow or rain, in all the weathers of a year” to look at the plaque commemorating the debate, [which] aroused an interest in the 16th President so strong that it led Sandburg to write a six-volume Lincoln biography… Read more…
