The median family income of a student from Spoon River is $56,800, and 12% come from the top 20 percent. Less than 1% of students at Spoon River came from a poor family but became a rich adult. A new ...

“Spoon River Anthology” (1915) by Edgar Lee Masters, a collection of autobiographical verse monologues in epitaph form, was named by Eliot Weinberger as the “century’s most influential book of ...

Ruby and Brian Berryman traveled from New Hampshire to this small central Illinois town recently just to walk among the graves at the Oak Hill Cemetery. A playwright, Ruby yearned to read the fading ...

The innovative spring production capped a year of unprecedented challenges in the presentation of live theater. A scene from the spring production of “Spoon River Revival,” an adaptation of Edgar Lee ...

NTID Performing Arts Presents: Spoon River Anthology, available on YouTube. The production features nearly 150 RIT students, faculty, staff, and alumni from around the country portraying 72 characters ...

The citizens of Spoon River are dead... But they still have a few things they'd like to say... Based on the timeless work of Edgar Lee Masters, The Hill- Stories from Spoon River is an immerisve ...

A retelling of Edgar Lee Masters' 1915 poetry, this version -- written by Jason Pizzarello -- introduces the audience to 40 of the people that once inhabited Spoon River, IL. Coming back to life for ...

Forty years ago actor Charles Aidman—one of the founding members of Theatre West—conceived, adapted, and performed this compelling collection of Edgar Lee Masters' graveside monologues written in free ...

There are more high water headaches for a community that knows about flooding. London Mills, Illinois, remains under a Flood Warning until Sunday afternoon. Heavy rain could make matters worse. Carol ...

Spoon River College is fishing for a new team nickname and logo. The community college in Canton, Ill., retired its nickname of three years, the Mudcats, after a minor-league baseball team in Zebulon, ...

NTID Performing Arts Presents: Spoon River Anthology, available on YouTube. The production features nearly 150 RIT students, faculty, staff, and alumni from around the country portraying 72 characters ...