The Greatest Gift
Brandon Myers was 6 when his family had to cut short a vacation in Hawaii. His maternal grandfather had died of a heart attack in Tennessee some 30 years ago….
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Sunday Breakfast
Gorton Reels In A Wolff
Josh Wolff and his big brother, Ben, found themselves transfixed by Saturday Night Live sketches as youngsters growing up in the Washington, D.C. area. Especially any that starred either Dana…
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Tree-Mendous
Mike Pasquesi was a first-year track and field athlete as a senior at Lake Forest High School in 1988. Coaches slotted him in the 800-meter run, a grueling event. It’s…
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Masha’s Mandolin
It could be said that musical talent helped the late Masha Pietkowski survive the Holocaust. She played the mandolin in an all-female orchestra at the Auschwitz concentration camp for nearly…
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Woodlands Lands Wooden Disciple
Three-time UCLA men’s basketball champion Larry Farmer sits in a conference room at his new employer—Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart in Lake Forest—and recalls the moment he turned down…
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Marcia On Her Mind
Mary Anne Ehlert still hears her younger sister Marcia’s laugh, more than 27 years after Marcia— born with an umbilical cord wrapped around her tiny neck, and cerebral palsy—died at…
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Root For Nat
Natalie Pelletier and Maddie McCormick were fifth graders and rookie actors when they appeared together on the Children’s Theatre of Winnetka stage in 2001. Pelletier portrayed a cheerleader in the…
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To Preserve And Protect
Arthur Miller’s 1988 Volvo never had a chance. Miller—a resident of Lake Forest since 1972, Lake Forest College’s emeritus Archivist and Librarian for Special Collections, and a man whose knowledge…
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Guidance Is Golder
Former New Trier East High School JV wrestler of the year David Golder isn’t a hard man to pin down off the mats. Named the chair of the Jewish United…
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