Sculptures : The Great Columns of Joliet

Acknowledgements 7(1) Foreword 8(2) Introduction to Friends of Community Public Art 10(2) Introduction to Poetry 12(2) history Building the Lincoln Highway 14(2) Concrete Rivers Route 66: The Mother Road 16(2) Route 66 Veteran Women: Proudly They Serve 18(2) Joliet's Female Veterans Sator Sanchez: World War II Hero 20(4) Sandy Sanchez The Story of Sator Sanchez 22(1) The Story of Katherine Dunham 23(1) Katherine Dunham: Dancer, Choreographer and Citizen 24(2) Madame Dunham George Mikan: Changed the Game of Basketball Forever 26(2) Goaltender Jesse Barfield: A Great Joliet Baseball Tradition 28(2) Joliet's Jesse Community Policing: Working with Citizens for a Safer City 30(2) A Policeman is the Semaphore of Civilization Joliet Fire Fighters: Helping Hands, Caring Hearts 32(2) Firefighter Monarch of the Prairie 34(2) The Bison's Alimony Asakiwaki Woman 36(2) They Endured The First Pioneer 38(2) Progressive Pioneer 1850s Barber: Underground Railroad Hero 40(2) Together From the Start Traveling the Plank Road: A Working Companionship 42(2) Founding Father History Clings Like Ivy 44(2) Cathedral Area Historic Preservation: Our Neighborhood 46(2) Rejuvenation Portals of Buell Avenue 48(2) Dark Good Memories The New Steelman 50(2) Steelman 2006 nature Egrets in the Wetland 52(2) Egret The Barn Owl and the Moon 54(2) The Barn Owl and the Moon Red Tail Hawk: The Nature of Our Neighborhood 56(2) The Hawk Fox in Cattails 58(2) Hail, Splendidissima! Nature: The Flow of Life 60(2) The Flow allegory Wisdom: A Grandmother and Grandchild 62(2) Touching Mother Nature 64(2) Cold Spring The Tiller of the Earth 66(2) The Tiller of the Earth Spirit of the River 68(2) Spirit Sonnet The Boy and the Rose 70(2) By Any Other Name An Informed Mind Can Make Better Choices 72(2) An Informed Mind Justice 74(2) Conviction Ebb and Flow 76(2) Think Even This The New Dress 78(2) The New Dress The Gift of Music 80(2) New Horn education I Wonder (Meadowview Elementary School) 82(2) I Wonder A Teacher's Gift (Sator Sanchez Elementary School) 84(2) Bombardier Martyrdom High Expectations (Washington Jr. High School) 86(2) High Expectations The Creative Spirit Soars (Grand Prairie Elementary School) 88(2) The Ponder Bird Reaching for Our Destinies (Plainfield South High School) 90(2) Reaching for Our Destinies Education is the Window to the World (Dirksen Jr. High School) 92(2) March Madness: Intergalactic Gravity Planting the Seeds: Children and Education (Taft Elementary School) 94(2) Child Guide Alice: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's Young Heroine 96(2) Alice on a Book Artists photographs and resumes 98(2) Poets photographs and resumes 100(6) Map of Sculptures 106(2) Photographs of Columns 108(2) Selected Resource Guide 110(1) Index 111