They eyed each other in high school in nearby Kewanee. Life happened. Now in their 50s, reunited in marriage in historic Bishop Hill, founded in 1846 as a utopian religious community by Swedish Janssonists.
L-r, t-b: the land, the necessities, Bishop Hill (pop. 125), the original chandeliers at the Colony church (built 1848), fine friend from afar, Connie Worthington, picks up the chalk after many years retired from the classroom to put the perfect sentiment on the blackboard at the old school