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nanny-state My latest column has been posted at Strike-the-Root:

“The libertarian response to arguments in favor of encroaching government control over our personal choices should be that culture, not law, is the proper vehicle for social change, and that the very notion that debate should be cut short by force of law, especially when it comes to mundane personal choices, ought to be morally repugnant.”

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Nicole Small
Monday, 9/1/08, 7:53 PM

Dear Mike, I am related by marriage to the woman found dismembered at the Airtight Bridge in Coles County, illinois in 1980. If there is anything i can do for you. Please contact me. I will help out as much as i can. I was surprised to find that you have touched on this matter greatly.

Eileen Steenburg
Friday, 6/27/08, 7:19 AM

Hi, It was a pleasure to meet you at Ashmore Estates in May. My sister and I will be going again July 12th.

Erin
Tuesday, 10/23/07, 7:17 AM

I went to EIU as well and did my student teaching in Kansas. I drove by the Ashmore Estates everyday and each time it freaked me out. It took me awhile to work up the courage to drive up to it, but I could never get out of the car... :/ I think it's awesome that you decided to put the stories down on paper. By the way, I think I remember seeing you around campus. Weird... Can wait to read the book!

Patti Murphy
Monday, 9/24/07, 10:28 AM

I teach 7th grade reading. We are concluding a unit on mysteries with research into unsolved mysteries and then some on supernatural mysteries. I had contacted Scott Kelley at Ashmore Estates about getting in touch with you to see if you might be willing to come speak with our students about the legends and lore of Coles County. If you are interested or would like more information, would you either email me or call XXX-XXXX? Thanks so much.

Karen Bergeron
Tuesday, 7/24/07, 11:40 PM

I was 16 and lived about a half mile from Knoch Cemetery in the oldest standing home in Morgan Township in 1980 when the Airtight Bridge murder happened. Three months later, a severed head was found in a yard in Murfreesboro TN. I've always wondered how this story turned out, as I left the area in 1982. I found you after returning from a trip to IL where I visited Knoch cemetery, as I spent many a summer afternoon there as a teenager. Your stories intrigue me and foster a new appreciation for growing up in that area. I'm wondering if you have pursued this story any further? I'd like to know the name of the victim. Hope to hear from you, I'm a writer of sorts as well. Congratulations on your appearances and gatherings, keep up the good work.

Lori Misner
Sunday, 6/3/07, 9:06 PM

Just happened across your site. I was looking for information on the body found at Airtight Bridge. I was a little girl when it happened and it always got my curiosity. And it scared me alot. Just looking to get more info cause I don't remember alot about it.

Michael Kleen
Saturday, 12/16/06, 3:05 AM

Hi Michael, seems there are a few more people who own the name :-) I'm glad to see that you are like me a member of a culture acting against mainstream and you are a subtle writing author. Sorry but my works are written in german ;-) Your photographs are also fantastic... their fog-like surreality let me think again about H. P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe and the mighty feeling of the old topos of vanitas. I am a historician of the middle ages (studied in Münster, Germany). If you have time and interest feel free to email to me. Greetings from Germany.

Kyla Nance
Tuesday, 10/31/06, 2:16 PM

Hey mike, just checking things out...haven't done to much site exploring just yet, but i saw the sign in and wanted to say hey. I sent an email, check it out. See ya round. Kyla

David
Tuesday, 10/24/06, 1:58 PM

Very interesting site. After visiting the "haunted house" at Ashmore Estates this year, it makes me wish I had visited it before it was revamped into a "fun house" type arena. If you have any additional info on it's history or any of it's patients, please contact me. I'm just really interested in it all. Thanks.

Nancy (Andrews) Swinford
Wednesday, 10/11/06, 7:04 AM

The Coles County Farm (Ashmore Estates)was my home when I was growing up in the late 40's and early 50's. My father and mother ran it for the county. I have many memories of it when it was a much needed home for people who were without family or just simply needed a home to live in. This was before all the fancy nursing homes that we have today. It was a properous farm and produced much of the food that was needed to feed the inmates as they were called back then. I am rambleing to much. So have fun with the haunted house.

Corey Taylor
Saturday, 6/3/06, 10:46 AM

Michael... I love your site, particularly regarding your discourses on voting and bullying, but I'm very interested in Ashmore Estates and would like to discuss it (and I expect much more) with you. Please get in touch with me!

Scott Kelley
Thursday, 5/25/06, 5:34 PM

Michael, I love your Volume 4. Can you contact me. I have plans for Ashmore Estates that may interest you. Scott Kelley-The Spookmeister-The Haunting of Elsinore.

Jenna Smith
Monday, 10/10/05, 11:31 PM

i enjoyed the reading, mike... very interesting...you have a lot of talent...bye

Brian
Friday, 7/15/05, 6:52 PM

If Mike were a woman, I would definitely bear his children.

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