Mary Lou's Grill: A Carbondale Morning Fixture
Mary Lou Trammel runs Mary Lou's Grill at 100 W Walnut St Carbondale from 5 30am to 3pm six days a week. The tiny counter service with 14 stools serves breakfast all day and features friendly nickname greetings and quick, homey meals with affordable prices. Regulars praise her memory pace and the personal touch while the staff Dolly Tolinski handles noon meals and dishes.
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Mary Lou Trammel
Mary Lou
Walnut St
Carbondale
Lover Boy
Mary Lou’s
Hon
Steve Burkhardt
Ilinois University
Patrona
Russell Ditterline
Central Illinois Public Service
Pete Backus
Elizabeth Seacrist
SIU
Robert “Rip” Stokes
Ralph Johnson
Lila Wagley
Tomer
Orville Bevel
Hermans Barber Shop
Dolly Toleski
Arctic Teacher: Murphysboro Author Recalls Alaska School Year
Walter Qualls from Murphysboro details his 1953 Alaska teaching stint in Husla as a one room log cabin schoolmaster on the Koyukuk River. He describes cold, cultural exchange with Indians, lessons in English and native language, and later reflections from a 1968 return amid changed technology and a new three room school.
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Walter Qualls
Alaska
Bud Farrar
Illinois
Midwest
Arctic Circle
Murphysboro
Husla
Qualls
Arnold Elementary
Crab Orchard
Missouri
Southern Illinois University At
Carbondale
Far North
Territorial Department of Education of
Koyukuk River
Yukon
Government Education Department
Arctic
Huska
Tony Sam
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