Spring - Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Historical Society
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Spring - Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Historical Society
Celebrate our heritage with the 2013 Centennial Family Awards At our 2013 Annual Meeting we will celebrate two Centennial Families who have lived in the community for over 100 years and share the history of Everett School. Families honored this year include the Cascarano family, nominated by Carrie Spezzano, and the Lanners-Rose family, nominated by Madeline G. Mobile. Please join us on Sunday, May 5th at 3:00 p.m. at Everett School to celebrate these families and Everett School. This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. 2013 Centennial Family Awards History of Everett School/ Annual Meeting Sunday, May 5th 3:00 pm Everett School Free and Open to the Public The Cascarano family immigrated to the United States from Italy in the 1890s. Antonio and Celeste Cascarano and their nine children arrived in Lake Forest in 1910. Antonio worked as a gardener on the J. Ogden Armour estate. His family quickly became a fixture in Lake Forest, with his children and grandchildren making their marks in the community through crafts and professions of all kinds: landscape design, upholstery, produce delivery, the railroad, and Christmas trees, to name just a few. The families of both Joseph Lanners and Irene Rose had already lived in town for more than thirty years when they married in 1931. Both families were very active in the community—Joseph Lanners and his sister-in-law Madeline Rose organized and directed the Lake Forest Day Children’s Parade from 1931 until 1983 – over fifty years. Joseph also founded the first Boy Scout Troop at the School of St. Mary in 1930. In addition to fascinating anecdotes about these Centennial Families, at the Annual Meeting, you’ll also learn more about the history of our host Everett School. Everett, which will mark its 100th anniversary next year, began as a small, two-room schoolhouse in 1914, back when Everett was its own community separate from Lake Forest. This old brick schoolhouse was transformed into a fire station in the 1950s, when the current school building was constructed. Anthony Cascarano with his mother Flora in front of the vegetable gardens at Walden Joseph and Irene Lanners leaving on their honeymoon in 1931 May 2013 a Volume Twenty-nine a Number One Spotlight on Volunteers Our 2013 spring intern, Briana Buckingham, has been a delightful addition to our organization. Bri is a junior at Lake Forest College where she is majoring in Communications with a minor in AfricanAmerican Studies. Bri has assisted in numerous communications projects, including the promotion of our spring programs, marketing for The Mystery of the Gardener’s Daughter and development of our mock 1916 newspaper. She has also worked with Lisa Frey, the Director of Development, on member benefit activities. Bri is looking forward to putting the skills she developed during her internship to work as she enters the professional world. I have received so many compliments about our spring and summer line-up for programs. To advertise these, we developed a mock 1916 newspaper that was distributed to every household in Lake Forest and Lake Bluff, and to our non-local members. The response has been fantastic to both our events and newspaper as shown by the tremendous number of new members. Lisa Frey, Laurie Stein and I welcome our new members to the Historical Society family and look forward to getting to know you better. Please contact me if you would like additional copies of the newsletter. It can also be downloaded from our website. Welcome Juliet to the Staff We welcome Juliet Stein-Davies to the curatorial staff. Juliet will be working through July coordinating the collections inventory—researching and updating catalog records, identifying items for conservation and scanning the photograph collection. A lifelong resident of the community, Juliet has a degree from Barat College and has experience working in both school and public libraries. I would like to give special thanks to Tom Gleason of Crab Tree Farm and Chef John des Rosiers for donating their expertise and exquisite spaces for the spring tour. Not only is Crab Tree Farm one of a kind, but the addition of the period lunch that Chef des Rosiers is developing (based on the farm’s historic cookbooks) makes this an even more unique experience. Our Crab Tree Farm program sold out quickly with a first notice to members. If you have not renewed your membership, I hope you will do so today. Your support will ensure that we can continue to bring you fun and interesting programs about the community. Welcome New Members Ms. Elisa Allan Mrs. Anna Lee Bayly Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Behrens Ms. Monica Burmeister Mr. and Mrs. James Cascarano Mr. and Mrs. Terry Czerwinski Mr. and Mrs. Robert Everett Mrs. Esther Fetherolf Ms. Ann Flood Mr. and Mrs. Justin Foley Mr. and Mrs. Charles Forness Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Gannon Mr. Geoffrey Georgas Ms. Shawn Gore Mr. Charles Hansen Mrs. Winifred Hayes Mr. and Mrs. Courtney Hays Mr. and Mrs. Ken Hazlett Ms. Sandra Herrick Mrs. Judy Inglese Mr. and Mrs. James R. Jacobson Ms. Kathy Kalstrup Ms. Kay Kearney Mr. Paul Klug and Mr. Craig Bergmann Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kolar Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Kruse Ms. Mary Lane Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Lange Mr. and Mrs. Mark Lanigan Mr. and Mrs. Donald K. Lavanway Mr. Justin Lee and Ms. Jessica MacDonald Mr. Robert J. Marshall Mr. Laurence McCotter Ms. Diana Miller Mr. and Mrs. German Moreno Mr. and Mrs. Albert Pawlick Ms. Ellory Peck Ms. Tellet Perveen Ms. Lois Polakoff Ms. Kathryn Quinn, AIA 2 Mr. and Mrs. David Radcliffe Ms. Grace Ragsdale Mr. Patrick Requa Ms. Mary Ann Richie Ms. Stephena Romanoff Ms. Katherine M. Saville Mrs. Teresita Shah Mr. and Mrs. David Sharpe Mr. Oscar Soergel Mr. Armiger H. Sommers Mr. Charles Starcevich Ms. Catherine Sugino Mr. Donald Swanton Ms. Elizabeth Teich Ms. Alice Tell Mr. and Mrs. Dominic Turchi Mr. and Mrs. William Vance Mr. and Mrs. James Williams Mark Your Calendar - Summer Tours JUNE Tour of Ragdale Thursday, June 27th at 10:00 am Cost: $8 per person, advance reservations required Ragdale was designed by Howard Van Doren Shaw as a summer home for his family and there, each member could explore their artistic talents: Shaw as an architect, his mother as a painter, his wife Frances as a poet and playwright, and his daughter Sylvia as a sculptor. In 1976, Howard Van Doren Shaw’s granddaughter, Alice Judson Hayes, created the Ragdale Foundation and turned the home and farm into an artist’s retreat where artists can go to create their beautiful, creative, and brilliant masterpieces. The property has recently undergone an extensive renovation. The tour will also include the gardens of Ragdale. Space is limited and reservations are required. Bike Tour of the Lasker Estate Sunday June 30th at 2:00 pm Cost: $5 per person, advance reservations required The expansive 480-acre estate of Albert Lasker, the father of modern advertising, was built in the late 1920s. It was the quintessential country estate with a manor house designed by architect David Adler, grand gardens, and gentleman farm. The estate was even more exceptional because of its own 18 hole golf course, considered among the toughest in the country. Thirteen of the original buildings, including the manor house, still exist and have been turned into unique homes. The bike tour covers the history of the estate and will last about 90 minutes. Space is limited and reservations are required. More information will be sent upon registration. JULY ENCORE SHOWING OF THE OPEN STEEL HIGHWAY Lecture by Norman Carlson Wednesday, July 31st at 1:30 pm Lake Forest Place Reservations requested North Shore Historian Norman Carlson will present an encore showing of his lecture “The Open Steel Highway” previously presented at the Historical Society. The free lecture will be held at Lake Forest Place. For reservations and additional directions, please contact the Historical Society at 847-234-5253 or [email protected]. Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Historical Society Board of Directors 2012-2013 President: Robert D. Douglass, AIA Vice President: David R. Henkel Treasurer: Leslie T. Chapman Secretary: David Sweet Immediate Past President: Kate Wolf Lori G. Baker Robert N. Banks Jane Brenton-Knauer Julie Carter Mike Conklin Carl DiTomasso Kathryn P. Govas N. Maxwell Gregory Margie Juedes David M. Lutrey Jack Meierhoff Arthur H. Miller Nancy Novit John Ormsby Jean Royster Bob Shaw Lynn Taylor Mark Westcott Kay Weston Susan Wright Executive Director: Janice C. Hack Curator: Laurie E. Stein Director of Development: Lisa M. Frey Sunday Manager: Jillian Chapman august Just Added! Bike Tour of the North Shore Interurban Saturday, August 3rd at 9:00 am Cost: $5 per person, advance reservations required Encore lecture on Wednesday, July 31st Today’s bike paths through Lake Forest and Lake Bluff were once the tracks of the North Shore Interurban electric railway. The Historical Society bike tour will explain the history of the North Shore and point out hidden remnants along the way. Train service along the original route from Waukegan to Highland Park, later known as the Shore Line Route, began in 1898. The Skokie Valley Route, along the present day Route 41, began in 1926. Unfortunately, both of these routes were abandoned by 1963. The bike tour will begin at the Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Historical Society with a brief introduction by North Shore Historian Mr. Norman Carlson. For tickets and reservations for all of the Historical Society programs, please call 847-234-5253 or visit www.lflbhistory.org. 3 Lake Forest High School Freshman William Morris spent a day at the Historical Society in April as part of the high school’s “Open Door” career exploration program. He is shown here with Executive Director Janice Hack researching materials for a future program on the Onwentsia Hunt. Thank you William! COLLECTIONS CORNER Historical Society Partners with Crab Tree Farm and Inovasi for Spring Tour The Historical Society is delighted to host the exhibit “Herbarium Abstractions” put together by Lake Forest College student Victoria Jones from the Elizabeth Teter Lunn herbarium collection of the college. The Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Historical Society is pleased to offer, once again, a tour of Crab Tree Farm this May—but with a unique twist. As part of this year’s program, Chef John des Rosiers of Inovasi is creating a luncheon menu inspired by Crab Tree Farm’s own period cookbooks. Members received first notice of the tour and it quickly sold out. In 1893, John Merle Coulter, a world-renowned botanist and president of Lake Forest College instituted the college’s herbarium along with Mogens Christian Jensen. Thirty years later, the collection was added to by Dr. Elizabeth Teter Lunn, a leading woman Biologist and later chair of the biology department. She oversaw an index to the collection which has grown to 5,000 pressed and dried plant specimens. The collection is an invaluable resource to study the historical flora of the region and has been employed by Lake Forest Open Lands in their work to determine native and introduced plants on lands under the organization’s care. We are grateful for our partnership with Crab Tree Farm and Inovasi to present this one-of-a-kind experience. Designed by architect Solon Beman as a model dairy farm, Crab Tree Farm now houses a collection of Arts and Crafts furniture and decorative arts. Inovasi, which emphasizes sustainability in its menu, has been called a “forward looking restaurant” with a “little bit of culinary magic taking place” by food critic Phil Vettel of the Chicago Tribune. An exhibition of specimens from Lake Forest College’s Elizabeth Teter Lunn Herbarium, entitled “Herbarium Abstractions,” will be on display at the Historical Society now through the beginning of May. Exhibition curator Victoria Jones will be available on Sundays at 2 p.m. to give tours of the exhibit. Special Exhibit of Crab Tree Farm Images The Historical Society is hosting an exhibit of paintings of Crab Tree by three local artists. The oil on canvas paintings created by Mr. Bart Woloson are based on photographs taken during the Historical Society’s October 2012 tour of Crab Tree Farm. Mr. Woloson is an active member of the Plein Air Artists of Western Michigan. Former Board Member Katie Hale has been painting watercolor scenes of Crab Tree Farm for a couple of years. The work of Jill Pilarski will also be on display. The exhibit opens May 9th and will be up through the summer. Oil on Canvas Painting by Bart Woloson Lake Forest College Senior Victoria Jones hangs a specimen for the herbarium exhibit. 4 Mystery of the Gardener’s Daughter WALDEN SPONSORS Mystery of the Gardener’s Daughter KUPPENHEIMER SPONSORS • Griffith, Grant, and Lackie Realtors • James Anderson Company • Lake Effects Holdings, LLC Thanks to our Supporters Curatorial Donation In connection with our lecture on the North Shore Interurban, the following individuals made a contribution to preserve the Historical Society’s collection of glass plate negatives of North Shore images. Thank you for your donation. The Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Historical Society is grateful to Mrs. Carolyn Wells Koss for her generous gift that enables the Historical Society to purchase a transcription machine that will allow us to transcribe oral histories for permanent placement in the archives. Her gift will also fund an internship this summer that will allow us to bring someone on board to work with the oral histories. Francis Beidler III David Cain Norman Carlson David Mattoon Carol Stroh 5 Non-Profit Organization U. S. Postage PAI D Permit No. 160 Lake Forest, IL Just Added: North Shore Interurban Bike Tour 361 East Westminster Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Phone: (847)234-5253 Fax: (847)234-5236 www.lflbhistory.org Museum Hours Tuesday–Wednesday–Thursday–Sunday 1:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m. Walking Tour of Elawa Farm Saturday June 15, 2013 at 10:00 am Join Arthur Miller for a walking tour of Elawa Farm, 900 North Waukegan Road, on Saturday, June 15th at 10:00 am. The tour is free but reservations are requested. Guests should meet at the main barn. Elawa Farm was built in 1917 for the A. Watson Armour family. The farm complex was designed by New York architect Alfred Hopkins, a leading expert on estate farms. The name of the farm, ELAWA, was a composite of ELsa and A. Watson and was the family’s weekend home. In addition to the farm, the tour will include the gatehouses to the estate which were converted to a home by A. Watson Armour and now house the offices of Craig Bergmann Landscape Design and Paul Klug Interior Design. Wallace and Lelia Holden Carroll purchased the house and farm from the Armours in 1954 and renamed it LeWa Farm (a composite of LElia and WAllace.) The Carrolls’ original purchase of 125 acres was expanded to include 600 acres of land. The property operated as a gentleman farm until 1990 when it was acquired by the City of Lake Forest.