Fall 2010 edition is now available
The fall edition of FOCUS/midwest is now online.
The 100-page publication is available at Issuu (http://bit.ly/9Ig7cX) and Scribd (http://scr.bi/anPe6T).
The publication is e-reader accessible.
Subject matter includes the economy, wages, auto manufacturing, adult entertainment and the environment. Several features also look at aspects of life during the Great Depression. And, in keeping with tradition, FOCUS/midwest features several original short stories and poems. Contributing writers are Karen Walsh, Anita Stienstra, Shawna Mayer, Lola Lucas, J. Mitch Hopper, C.D. Stelzer, Frank Absher, R.L. Nave, Jacqueline Jackson, Jeanne Handy, Ted Evanoff, Peter Downs and Abe Aamidor.
FOCUS/midwest was founded by Charles and Rose Klotzer in 1962, suspended publication in 1983, and resumed publication in 2008.
(Download the spring issue here and the summer issue here.)
FOCUS/midwest does not accept advertising or charge for content or contact readers.
Here’s the Table of Contents of the Fall edition:
NONFICTION
6 The gap: Black men in the Midwest are losing ground to white men. Why? / Peter Downs
12 Revisiting “Revolution”: A 40-year-old warning about the U.S. economy / Roland Klose
15 Locked out in Metropolis: Honeywell workers learn the high cost of good-paying jobs / C.D. Stelzer
17 How the Midwest’s industrial base was allowed to crumble / Ted Evanoff and Abe Aamidor
34 In the Nachusa Grasslands, the Nature Conservancy explores the possibilities / Jeanne Handy
37 Coal operators, John L. Lewis and the federal government crush the Progressive Miners / C.D. Stelzer
44 The Great Depression: The Dougan dairy farm faces hard times, and prevails / Jacqueline Jackson
49 Chicago lockdown: Inside the city’s infamous underground stripper parties / R.L. Nave
57 The “Voice of Egypt”: The first East St. Louis station stayed but a few months / Frank Absher
60 “A town forgotten”: Cairo never got past the ugliness of 40 years ago / William R. Brinton
61 The James Gang: How an enterprising promoter resurrected a notorious outlaw / C.D. Stelzer
FICTION & POETRY
65 Hiking through the Shawnee / J. Mitch Hopper
73 Spam / Lola Lucas
74 The Upstairs Room / Shawna Mayer
82 Celadon / Karen Walsh
93 Breaking Free / Anita Stienstra
94 The 1960 Chevrolet / Winston Weathers
98 End pages
