Area English Professor Collects Diverse Authors’ Books for School District
MACOMB, IL – Western Illinois University English Professor Rebekah Buchanan has the perfect “How I Spent my Summer Vacation” essay just in time for back to school. Over the summer months, Buchanan embarked upon an initiative to purchase books by diverse authors for every classroom in the Macomb Community School District No. 185. As a result of donations of books, and funding to purchase books, Buchanan, working with Linda Cox, owner of New Copperfield’s Book Service in Macomb, was able to obtain more than 160 books for every teacher in Macomb. Donation-wise, that equals close... Read More