Chapter 2: Screams
Doris’s scream punctured the harsh dog days’ heat at 1:15 pm, on Friday, Aug. 26, 1955, on N. Tenth Street in Mattoon’s Grant Park neighborhood. It wasn’t just August hot, but it was one of those end-of-summer days that drip with humidity in Central Illinois, with the kind of airborne moisture that isn’t quite rain but helps acres of Drummer loess create the perfect mushy growing environment that…
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