Categories: Gazette
Gazette Article by: Nan Greenough Appeared in the Gazette: Fall/Winter 2012 Winnetka recently lost one of its true heroes. Everett P. “Tuck” Weaver died on September 17 at the age of 94. People lucky enough to know Tuck speak of him with reverence. Tuck was the epitome of the “greatest generation:” a World War II […]
Categories: Gazette
Gazette Article by: Dr. Charles Shabica Appeared in the Gazette: Fall/Winter 2012 The Skokie Lagoons are a nature preserve on the Skokie River that extends from Glencoe to Winnetka and is owned and managed by the Forest Preserve District of Cook County (FPDCC). Within the system are seven inter-connected lagoons totaling 190 acres that are […]
Originally appeared in the Gazette, Fall/Winter 2012 Updated by Meagan McChesney, January 6, 2022 In the summer of 2011, former Winnetkan John Chimoures stopped by the Winnetka Historical Society’s Museum & Headquarters at 411 Linden Street with a simple question: “Why is there no Civil War star on the cenotaph?” Two Civil War soldiers’ names […]
Categories: Gazette
Gazette Article by: Kaitlin A. Briggs, Ed. D. Appeared in the Gazette: Fall/Winter 2012 Kaitlin A. Briggs, Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Southern Maine, spent a week at WHS researching Dorothy Dushkin. Intrigued by Dushkin’s journals, she visited to explore the community that attracted the Dushkins in 1930. In 1990 a […]
