Stories from Saturday, October 14, 2017

The Heartland Writers’ Guild will be hosting the Heartland Book Festival on the Mississippi on October 28, 2017, at the Osage Centre in Cape Girardeau from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. The event is an opportunity for the public to meet published authors who will have their books available for purchase. Authors, book publishers, book sellers, along with illustrators and book editors, can register for booth space on the group’s web site or on the Facebook page...

 As with many coffee shop conversations, there was general agreement on most topics: players should stand for the national anthem; street protests that turn into riots are wrong; the media has lost their minds in an obsessive push to undo the Trump presidency, etc. And the take-away from these less-than-scientific conversations was that there appears no end in sight for this ongoing upheaval. And therein lies the problem.