This week, readers throughout the area can enjoy the benefits of that lifelong knowledge while reading a new book, “Glen Carbon,” part of Arcadia Publishing’s Images of America series. Woven among the images of Glen Carbon coal mines, railroads, families, and businesses is the story of Glen Carbon. Glen Carbon families, including the Yanda, Primas, Wieduwilt, Pizzini, Harris, and dozens of others, persevered so that Glen Carbon could become the community it is today. In 2007, CNN Money named Glen Carbon to their list of “Best Places to Live.”Williams comes from a family of southern Illinois coal miners who arrived in Glen Carbon in 1911. She is a member of the Glen Carbon Historical Commission and is a past president of the Madison County Historical Society.

Source: CNN January 25, 2022 17:41 UTC