A Tale of Two Illinois Towns and Two July 4 Parades
They were 30 miles apart but the lack of gun safety laws means everything is in our own backyard
6 min readJul 5, 2022
In 1976, novelist, memoirist and essayist Joan Didion wrestled to the ground what compelled her to write in a piece called “Why I Write,” which was excerpted from a collection of hers and published in the New York…