Categories: Gazette
Gazette Article by: Laurie Petersen Appeared in the Gazette: Fall/Winter 2006 Despite steady rain and an unseasonable chill, tours of the Schmidt-Burnham log house were filled to capacity at the grand opening on September 10. Visitors of all ages learned about pioneer days from docents in period costume and heard a dramatized first-person account of […]
Categories: Gazette
Gazette Article by: Bean Carroll Appeared in the Gazette: Fall/Winter 2006 The Prairie School of Landscape Design, Part One The post-Civil War era proved highly beneficial for Chicago. The city had become the most active railroad hub in the country and a center for industries such as meat-packing, lumber and milling, manufacturing of farm equipment […]
Gazette Article by: Steve Adams Appeared in the Gazette: Fall/Winter 2006 A search of other U.S. communities named “Winnetka” results in Winnetka, Calif. and Winnetka Heights, Texas. That raises the question of how these towns were named and what, if any, connection they have to Winnetka, Ill.. Winnetka, California Born on a farm near Wabash, […]
Categories: Gazette, Past Exhibits
Inaugural Exhibit at 411 Linden Gazette Article by: Maura Rogan Appeared in the Gazette: Fall/Winter 2006 The Village Green: Where Winnetka Celebrates and Remembers In her book “The Story of Winnetka,” Lora Townsend Dickinson refers to the Village Green as “a kind of spiritual center, a shrine, a meeting place for celebrations of the entire […]
