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01 December 2011
Your writer’s excuse for scribbling for the holidays about somebody who summered in Lake Forest almost 80 years ago is that she also is the subject, like my November story’s Cissy Patterson (Newspaper Titan…), of a major new biography published this year by Knopf in New York.Read More
01 November 2011
This fall, two impressive new nonfiction books have appeared, both of which have at their core a story of a young single mother, Cissy Patterson (the Countess Gizycka), and her little daughter, Felicia. Published October 11 was Chicagoan Megan McKinney’s The Magnificent Medills: America’s Royal ... Read More
29 September 2011
For this season of Halloween, All Saints’ Day, and the Day of the Dead, it has become an annual occasion here for ghost walks and visits by ghost hunters. But this is not just a new fad in Lake Forest. Two of the 19th century settlers of east Lake Forest were Anna Farwell (Mrs. Reginald) De Koven ... Read More
30 August 2011
September not only brings the start of a new school year and end of summer activities, but also the winding up of a year of remembering Lake Forest’s rise since 1861.Read More
08 August 2011
As horse-driven transportation yielded to steam and motor in the later 19th and early 20th centuries, horses’ roles shifted from hauling goods and carrying riders to recreational activities, albeit often strenuous sports like polo and fox hunting. In Lake Forest, by 1900, horses became the focus ... Read More

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