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….
Read More
by Bill McLean •
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….
Read More
by Bill McLean •
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…
Read More
by Bill McLean •
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…
Read More
by Bill McLean •
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…
Read More
by Bill McLean •
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…
Read More
by Bill McLean •
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…
Read More
by Bill McLean •
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…
Read More
by Bill McLean •
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…
Read More
by Bill McLean •
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…
Read More
by Bill McLean •
For Winnetka’s Laurie Petersen, who’s mad about Chicago architecture and thrilled to talk about it with anyone, a sit-down interview would not do. “How about we walk/drive a short stretch…
Read More
Copyright © 2023. All Rights reserved.