What does one of America’s leading troubadours do when he settles down? If he’s Jim Post, and he lands in the storybook town of Galena, Illinois, he truly digs in.
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While Post’s legendary wanderlust has been subdued in Galena by a hilltop home, a beloved wife, and a newfound sense of community, his restless muse has been ghost hunting, digging into the abandoned mines that once provided 80 percent of the nation’s lead and turned Galena into Illinois’ first frontier boomtown. And though miners got most of Galena’s lead out, Post has found a rich vein of history, legends, tales, and folklore that he has transformed into a superb one-man show of songs and bittersweet history. It reminds us all that the real wild and woolly west, the settling of America’s wilderness, happened right around the corner, right down the road.
If anything, Post’s show eclipses Wade’s. It offers so many more dimensions–music, comedy, drama, and history.
