ON THIS DAY in 1939 "Gone With The Wind", drama film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh, premieres in Atlanta.
Heaven’s Kitchen will provide a free holiday meal package for anyone in need. The Free Christmas Dinner Giveaway is a Drive-Through Event tomorrow at Heaven’s Kitchen. Lineup begins at 4 and the giveaway is from 5 to 6pm while supplies last.
Date: next Tuesday December 16th. The meal includes a ham and traditional Christmas fixings.
Time: line-up begins at 4pm. Drive through giveaway will be from 5:00-6:00pm while supplies last
Location: Giveaway is being held at Heaven's Kitchen, 404 Seright St, Harrisburg, IL (cars will be directed into the New Hope Christian Academy parking lot across the street)
A holiday meal package—complete with a ham and traditional Christmas fixings—will be provided at no cost. This will be a drive-through distribution, open to anyone in need. Families may line up beginning at 4:00 p.m., giveaway begins promptly at 5:00pm.
Southern Illinois University Press will host an online holiday book sale for new and backlist titles until January 31st, 2026. All SIU Press books are available for 40% off list price when using code “HOLIDAY” at checkout at siupress.com.
You can browse a vast selection of featured titles in the Press’s 2025 Holiday Gift Guide, which includes individual-title spotlights as well as listings for subject areas like regional history, Chicago history, and Lincoln. The gift guide also features several SIU Press series, such as Looking for Lincoln, the Concise Lincoln Library, Engaging the Civil War, the World of Ulysses S. Grant, Perspectives on Crime and Justice, and the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry.
