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By Helen Weaver, Fall/Winter 2014 Updated 2022 When Winnetka was first incorporated as a village in 1869, fire was a fearsome threat. Early Winnetkans fought fires by joining with their neighbors in bucket brigades, dousing fires with barrels of lake water carried by horse and wagon, or buckets of water drawn from nearby wells and […]
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By Helen Weaver “The tract of land bought by the Winnetka Park Board (on the edge of the Skokie Marsh) provoked much criticism in the village. People said that the new park was inhabited exclusively by snakes and frogs. They said it was wet and it was. It was contemptuously referred to as the […]
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Gazette Column by Helen Weaver Appeared in the Gazette: Fall 2010 We’ve all heard of “six degrees of separation” but how about three degrees of connection? Hanging over the fireplace in the Evanich Room at 411 Linden is a painting with links to two our our past exhibits Palette of Our Past: Artists in Winnetka […]
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Gazette Article by Helen Weaver Appeared in the Gazette: Spring 2011 I am an aspiring historical fiction writer looking for inspiration from people who led interesting lives in the Midwest around the turn of the century. Are you aware of any good examples in Winnetka? (Winnetka had no shortage of fascinating families to pull from. […]
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Gazette Article by Helen Weaver, Fall 2011 Updated 2023 In the summer of 2022, many of our friends and neighbors in Northfield, Glencoe, and Wilmette were clearing out their freezers and running long extension cords through their neighbors’ yards for days after a series of destructive storms. Yet, in Winnetka, no one went more than […]
