The   Web  Site  of
               
         Job  -- as in probe -- Conger
                 Job Cliftton Conger, IV to be complete,
                          native son of Springfield, Illinois
                    This page was most recently updated October 07, 2006

CHAPTER FIVE of my autobiography has been completed.
Read it by clicking here
  I have created this page to show the world what they're missing by not hiring me full-time or part time as a writer, photographer or darn near anything else that doesn't involve cooking oil or retail.
    There are many good people, working for paying employers, who are a hellofalot less involved in their community than I. And I hope it makes sense to you to consider H I R I N G  a fellow who supports his community as much as yours truly. 
    This site was put together in 1999 with the help of a few friends who put it onto the internet, but I've done all thewriting and taken most of the pictures.
    I've also created http://www.aeroknow.com which shares a lot of information about airplanes. On October 5, 2006 I launched an arts site featuring galleries of central Illinois visual artists and links to many pages packed with pictures and information about arts of all kinds. The name of the new web site is Central Illinois Visual Artist Galleries, and I hope you will visit that site by clicking here http://www.civag.com  

     I'm freelance writing now, most recently producing 23 vignettes for Illinois Times' Best of Springfield 2006 issue. I need a whaleofalot more employment to keep body and soul together!. If you know of established visual artists, including painters, sculptors, fabric artists, art photographers who want their art and their stories to be seen by a growing number of visitors, please tell them about CIVAG.  
     If you live in Springfield and have ideas for stories about people, places and issues in this community, please send me your thoughts. If I accept a story idea and contact you provide and am granted permission to write at least a short feature article, I will generate a check to you -- from my own pocket of at least $10. I need the work, and I'm willing to pay YOU for your help. 
    Larry King will often ask a guest (when the person is known in more than one field), "Are you an actor who sings or a singer who acts? I have been asking myself, is Job Conger a songwriter with a guitar who writes poems or a poet who also writes songs and plays guitar? My experience with local musicians, compared with experiences with local and a growing list of Illinois poets, has led me to conclude I am a poet who writes songs and plays guitar. I am gladly and truly a journalist/photographer because I want to be, and a poet because I have to be.
     My interest in Springfield poet Vachel Lindsay has led me to launch a new one man show called Vachel Lindsay, the Poet Speaks. I tailor my presentation to match the time I have. If you would like to know more about Vachel Lindsay: the Poet Speaks, email me - writer@eosinc.com   As a poet, sharing my creations and those of others I love, I feel I am harmonizing with people. And that is why, if anyone remembers me, I hope you will remember me as a poet who wrote songs; a guy who loved to write as a journalist and take pictures because it was a great way to almost sustain his life.
             
Chapter 1 of
Jingle Man's Alibi:
                 The Autobiography of Job Clifton Conger, IV here
                       Chapter 2 - here
                        Chapter 3 - here
                                  Chapter 4 - here
                                Chapter 5 - here

Please read my poems by clicking here
                                                http://www.civag.com/poemsofJob.htm

The Conger Family web page has moved. I'm setting it up at CIVAG. Look for the eddress here soon. 
                                   
The Brotherhood of Jobs page has moved. See note above.
All aviation pages are now at    
                                                 http://www.aeroknow.com
                                    

      When not working as a journalist, I have served as Secretary, Tanka Society of America, a board member of the Springfield Classical Guitar Society, Prairie Grapevine Folklore Society, board member of Sangamon County Historical Society, and curator, Air Combat Museum,  In 2002  I was elected president of Central City Neighborhood Association and in January 2004, I was the first former president of that association to be re-elected to serve as president.
  The Conger family genealogical newsletter I published for years,  Conger Confab , is on hiatus until I can get my gas service reconnected and probably a while after that.
        

Your comments about this page, news of employment opportunities sent to writer@eosinc.com are welcome.  I will respond within 24 hours to any email with a return address and a name. 

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