Soliloquy on Professor Joseph Carter Corbin included in Des Plaines' River Anthology

A soliloquy on Professor Joseph Carter Corbin, the founder of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, has been included in the Forest Park Historical Society's Des plaines' River Anthology.

Augie Alesky, President of Forest Park, Illinois Historical Society and owner of Forest Park Centuries and Sleuths Bookstore, was inspired by Edgar Lee Master's 1915 Spoon River Anthology and lives of people, buried in local cemeteries, to create both an anthology and soliloquy work. He found local authors to contribute to the soliloquies which are told in first person and meant to be historical in nature. He envisioned the project "as a creative way to talk about local history and raise money for the Historical Society."

The anthology includes thirty-one historic voices including Clarence and Grace Hemingway, the parents of Ernest Hemingway, Michael Todd, a husband of Actress Elizabeth Taylor, and Albert and Lucy Parsons.

Professor Corbin's Soliloquy was written by John Rice, a Forest Park columnist for the Forest  Park Review, and French Teacher. John Rice became acquainted with the life and work of Professor Corbin earlier in the year when he covered the Memorial Dedication Ceremony of a headstone for Professor Corbin at Forest Home Cemetery. His soliloquy of Professor Corbin is attention catching and inspirational.

Des Plaines' River Anthology had its world premiere and live adaptation on October 26, 2013 as a fund raiser for the Forest Park Historical Society,

Des Plaines River Anthology $10.00 + $6.95 (out of state orders)
Publisher: Forest Park Historical Society in association with Allium Press of Chicago.
Available at Centuries & Sleuths Book Store: 7419 Madison Street, Forest Park, IL,  60130
708-771-7243; Amazon.com, and Forest Park Historical Society