Kewanee's 1st aerial photographer was a man of firsts
Neville learned how to keep a steady hand in a roaring plane in the Roaring ’20s
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Here's what Kewanee's 'Cave Man' found in Kentucky's Old Salts Cave
Kewanee Attorney Russell T. Neville, known nationally as "The Cave Man," led a group of 11 to explore the immense Kentucky cave
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Dean Karau column: How history changes with new information
It's OK to revise our history if it's based on facts
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Columnist Dean Karau features Fred Machesney, Kewanee's First Pilot
Dean Karau For the Star Courier This brief paragraph was buried on page 8 of the Dec. 22, 1903, Kewanee Daily Star Courier: “The United States government wants the flying machine invented by Orville and Wilbur Wright, the Dayton, O., brothers who made a successful test of their invention at Kitty Hawk, N.C.” That was our hometown’s inauspicious introduction to the age of flight, which had begun a mere five days earlier. A young Annawan boy was only five years-old at the time, so he surely didn’t read that article. But by 1910, Frederick Eugene Machesney had fallen in love with “aero...
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