Pages from the Past includes 75 of the nearly 360 installments of "A Page from Our Past" that have appeared in The Pantagraph as of December 2012. Selections range from the 1730 siege of the Fox in eastern McLean County to the 1970 Vietnam War protests by Illinois State University students. Readers will find in these pages everything from new perspectives on oft-told local tales to offbeat forays into the lives of hometown eccentrics and rabble rousers.