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A Feather Just Doesn't Fall Out of a Bird
Musings by Patricia Feager
 
 
 
 
 
I think it's interesting how the mind sees something as simple, as a single feather, floating on the surface of the water and it triggers memories of long ago. This is how the story goes.
 
It began innocently enough, purely out of curiosity and a thirst for knowledge about the Native American Indians who occupied the land where I lived, house backing up to Grant Woods in Lake Villa, Illinois from 1979 to the spring of 1997. I signed up for classes to learn about the Pottawatomie Indians, previous occupants of Northern, Illinois. Rumor had it there was a peaceful village in my yard before the developer purchased the land and built single family homes in 1973.  The elders near Monaville and Fairfield Road said they remembered the old school house next to the cemetery and while the children were in school, Indians peered through the windows, trying to learn English. Many children shared their candy with them and they received berries and nuts in exchange. People lived in harmony.
 
I am now about to share the facts, as I recall purely from memory. Behind my house was a Kentucky Coffee Tree. People said it was planted there by the Indians as a ... more

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