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Contents

JUNE 2021

Dyan Padgett, Peony, oil on canvas, dyanpadgett.com

FEATURES 62 HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS

When pandemic lockdown made it impossible for Susan Lawson Bouma to paint in her Florida studio, the artist did not give up doing what she loves.

DEPARTMENTS

66 COOL BEANS, HOT COMPANY

Lake Forest resident, marketing maven, and entrepreneur Caryn Africk plants a new flag—this time as co-founder of a venture featuring plant-based frozen wraps.

70 THE NOOK

Built in 1859, 725 Sheridan Road is one of the oldest substantial homes in Lake Forest. After years of happy family memories in ‘The Nook,’ as it is known, owners Jim and Lynn Bertram are ready for the next chapter, allowing a new family the opportunity to own this historic home.

22 EDITOR’S NOTE 27 CULTURE & COMMUNITY 28 THE BUZZ 30 IN THE NEIGHBOORHOOD 34 BETWEEN THE BLUFFS 37 38 42 44 46

HOUSE & GARDEN ENTERTAINING THE CUT THE DISH IN THE GARDEN

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PERSONAL BEST THE LIFESTYLE LIST STYLE THE SPORTING LIFE

78 WRAP IT UP ON THE COVER Artist Susan Lawson Bouma in her Lake Forest studio.

Photography by Katrina Wittkamp.

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Editor’s Note 46

IN THE GARDEN

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One of the silver linings to spending last summer at home is the rise of home gardening. Celebrated landscape architect and avid gardener Craig Bergmann builds on this movement, returning to the pages of F & B’s In the Garden this month with a piece on harvesting at home. From flowers to fruit, he encourages us to plant what we love in order to surround ourselves with delectable, in-season beauty every day—no dashing to the market required.

Entertaining brings a table set for al fresco enjoyment along with a recipe highlighting some of summer’s favorite ingredients. I plan to close out my first outdoor dinner gathering with Chef Dominic Zumpano of The Gallery’s Sour Cream Cheesecake topped with seasonal fruit, following his recipe in The Dish.

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Outdoor living abounds in our June feature, “The Nook,” which features images and stories from an historic property on Sheridan Road with showstopping THE LIFESTYLE LIST wrap-around and screened-in porches.

Cover subject Susan Lawson Bouma of Lake Forest has a long and distinguished career painting bold, colorful, oversized abstract paintings infused with energy and movement. Bouma, whose work is influenced by American abstract expressionist painters Helen Frankenthaler and Joan Mitchell, shared a studio at Gorton Community Center in the ’80s and ’90s but now paints

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from her home studios in Lake Forest and Vero Beach. Her story, “Home is Where the Art Is,” will no doubt delight.

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GATHER GARDEN INSPIRATION The Junior Garden Club of Lake Forest to host a garden walk featuring seven spectacular gardens.

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Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the Garden Walk will be handled differently this year. Instead of ticket pickup at one location, the JGCLF will notify all guests of the starting location the evening before the event.

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Junior Garden Club of Lake Forest members, left to right: Kristin McCain, past president; Elizabeth Abbattista, incoming president; Kim Neill, past president; Judy Kernahan, current president.

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Downtown Chicago’s famed French Vietnamese culinary hotspot Le Colonial to add a second location in Lake Forest’s Market Square.

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IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD

STRAW MAN

Entrepreneur Nick Yehle in his Lake Forest home office.

A love of outdoor adventures and good coffee led Nick Yehle and his business partner, Joey Jones, to create the JoGo, a straw that revolutionizes coffee on the go. words by Mitch Hurst photography by Robin Subar

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IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD

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ICK YEHLE wasn’t thinking about coffee when, at age 7, he started spending a few weeks during summers at Camp Kooch-i-ching in northern Minnesota. Even at a young age, Yehle loved the outdoors and relished the twoto-three-week trips to camp each year.

“I went to camp every summer for 13 years in a row, from when I was 7 to when I was 21,” Yehle says. “I’ve spent a lot of time out in the woods or out in the middle of nowhere in Canada. I liked going to camp because I could do stuff that I couldn’t do at home.”

At Camp Kooch-i-chang, Yehle enjoyed long canoe trips, riflery, archery, and woodcraft. He even learned how to wield and sharpen an axe.

“When I was 16, we saw eleven polar bears on a canoe trip,” he says. “It was just experiences in life you couldn’t get elsewhere, and I loved it.”

Yehle, 23, was born in Boston and moved to the North Shore as a toddler when his family relocated to Lake Forest.

He’s lived on the east side of Lake Forest ever since, graduating from Lake Forest High School in 2016.

While enrolled at LFHS, Yehle talked his way into an Innovation Incubator class (he didn’t technically meet the criteria to take part) where he learned about starting a business from area business leaders.

After graduating high school, Yehle’s entrepreneurial spirit accompanied him to Denison University in Ohio. It was during his time there that the beginnings of his professional career would take shape, combining his love of the outdoors with his desire to be part of a start-up.

During his years attending camp Kooch-i-ching, Yehle met his business partner and fellow outdoor enthusiast Joey Jones, and they connected over their shared love for adventure and coffee. In 2016, Jones embarked on a 2-year motorcycle trip from Minnesota to Patagonia and back. While traveling through Argentina, Jones was introduced to the bombilla, a straw used to drink yerba maté, a loose-leaf tea derived from the holly plant.

Fast forward a few years and Jones and Yehle were working summers at Camp Kooch-i-chang leading camping and canoe trips. They were with a group of youngsters and after a long day and still a way to go on their journey, they both thought they could use a cup of coffee.

“We had stopped for lunch on a cool little island in the middle of a river and we cooked up some tuna melts. There was a little bit of firewood on the island, and we made a fire and cooked the tuna,” Yehle says. “I looked at my watch and we had a lot of miles to go to make it to our campsite. So, I turned to Joey and said, ‘Joey, we’ve got to have a cup of coffee.’”

But they were out of firewood and would’ve needed to paddle to the mainland to get more. That, along with the half-hour process to brew what they called, “Cowboy Coffee,” meant they had to huff it back to camp caffeine-free.

Jones had been using a bombilla during the trip to drink tea.

The proverbial lightbulb flicked on.

“I said, ‘Joey, what if we use your bombilla and just see if

it works,’ and he and I definitely both captured the energy in that moment to try it and see what would happen,” says Yehle. “So, we tried the bombilla with coffee grounds in a cup and it tasted incredible. Right then I turned to Joey and said, ‘We can turn this into a business.’”

Jones and Yehle took a picture right there on the island of the first ever cup of JoGo, the name they would eventually settle on for their coffee straw invention.

Right away, Jones and Yehle began sketching designs for the JoGo. A week later, they had a Google Drive set up and the business was launched. They had to create a design, identify a manufacturer, and figure out how they would distribute the product.

“It’s been two years and 11 months and we never gave up and never looked back,” Yehle says.

Yehle and Jones started the business with just $2,500 of their own money and over time have received investments from friends and family. In early April, they launched a Kickstarter campaign with a goal of $10,000. The campaign has now raised more than $330, with more than 8,000 individual donors.

The JoGo essentially acts as a French Press in a straw. Take a hot cup of water, fill it with your favorite ground coffee, put the filter end of the straw in the coffee, stir, and start sipping.

The filter is removable for cleaning, and it fits in your pocket.

The two partners are still working on other parts of the business, including securing international patents for the JoGo, and they’re continuing to build a following, which already includes many outdoor enthusiasts from around the world.

It’s not just providing a good coffee-drinking experience that’s important to Yehle and Jones. Jogo will commit five percent of its annual profits to Survival International, a nonprofit organization that partners with indigenous and tribal communities to help them conserve their land and control their own futures. The commitment aligns with company’s ongoing recognition of the bombilla as the source of inspiration for the JoGo. “It’s really cool to hold the prototype in my hand, knowing that we made it even if nobody ever bought it,” Yehle says.

“To know that all these people across the world are actually excited for it just blows my mind. It’s the coolest thing ever.”

For more information, visit jogostraw.com.

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VILLA GATSBY: LET THE 2020’S ROAR! PREVIEW DINNER photography by Robin Subar

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ITADEL THEATRE presented a fabulous preview dinner prepared by Froggy’s catering for their upcoming party, Villa Gatsby: Let The 2020’s Roar! The evening progressed within a beautiful setting located at the David Adler Estate owned by Nancy and Adrian Smith. Ross Johnson, voted the world’s top entertainer by the International Psychic Entertainers Association, did not disappoint the guests with his mentalist skills.

The Citadel Theatre’s Villa Gatsby: Let the 2020’s Roar! will be held at 830 N. Green Bay Road, Lake Forest, on Saturday September 25. For more information, visit Citadel Theatre at citadeltheatre.org, call 847735-8554, or email tickets@citadeltheatre.org.

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TO THE NEXT LIFE words by T-Ann Pierce illustration by Tom Bachtell

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NCLE AL ENJOYED a rather robust social life. He was a nevermarried, traveling perfume salesman. Uncle Al wasn’t related by blood; he was my father-in-law’s best friend. They met in the Army when my father-in-law underwent surgery to remove what was thought to be your basic, run-of-the-mill tumor. Turns out, the lump was an absorbed twin, you know, with bones and stuff. Al was the reluctant medical assistant assigned to tend to my father-inlaw’s backside. Despite Al’s lack of enthusiasm, they became lifelong friends.

My husband has fond childhood memories of fishing trips near the Canadian border with his dad and Uncle Al. Around bedtime, Uncle Al would beg off to ‘sell perfume’. He’d return in the morning, disheveled and chain-smoking, completely unprepared for a Catholic school boy’s direct line of questioning: Who buys perfume in the middle of the night? What takes so long? Why can’t the lady just make up her mind?

Years later, Uncle Al was ‘selling perfume’ at a lady friend’s house when he took a nap and never woke up.

Long story, but Al never told his family he wore a toupee; secrets were a breeze to keep before the internet, I guess. When Al-in-a-casket rolled in from Houston, the toupee sparked sitcom-like confusion.

The family couldn’t be certain it was Al in there. They panicked. Even the undertakers were low-key freaking out. A lot of people were perspiring. In the end, my husband and I positively identified Al’s body.

That was 28 years ago.

I found out I was expecting twins the day before Uncle Al’s wake. The twins were the first of four. This month, our youngest graduates from high school.

Boom. Empty nest. Nearly three decades of handson parenting ends.

We were driving past The Deerpath Inn recently when my son casually mentioned it was quite possibly

the last time I’d drop a high schooler off someplace.

Anyplace. Like ever. I went from zero to existential crisis in a flash. My stomach flipped. I had this vision: parts of me were calving off like a glacier, melting into a giant, murky puddle of Worn-Out Mother right there on the street in front of The Deerpath.

Poor Doug, that adorable valet. They’d make him come out and sprinkle the mess with a bag of that sawdusty stuff the custodians in grade school used to cover barf. ‘This is how 28 years of parenting ends’, I thought to myself, ‘With me being absorbed into weird-smelling sawdust, then run over by a stream of Land Rovers, squirrels, and the heels of ladies lunching, until nothing of me remains.’

I suppose there are some aspects of parenting I won’t miss. Parent/teacher conferences immediately spring to mind; cocktails would have greatly improved those. I won’t miss the school drop-off/pickup lines; I found there simply weren’t enough swear words to cope. I certainly won’t miss those Unexcused Absence Notifications that blew up my devices during remote learning like air raid sirens: Alright, LFHS, take it easy. My kid isn’t winning any Perfect Attendance Awards, I get it.

But you know what I will miss? Reading Goodnight Moon for the millionth time and warm toddler bodies climbing in next to me at 2 a.m. I’ll miss outside voices inside. I’ll miss stepping on Cheerios. And LEGOs. Just one more time, I wish I could witness my child’s unadulterated joy, driving through McDonald’s after an ortho appointment. I’ll miss the guilty look of teenagers pretending they weren’t into mischief. I might just miss it all.

The truth is, I’m not sure 28 years was enough.

For more information or to get in touch, visit T-Ann’s websites: t-annpierce.com and theconfidencetriangle.com.

You can also follow her on IG @tannpiercecoaching and @the.confidence.triangle. Or just stop by—she’s probably outside chatting with her neighbors.

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Skip the open flames for a light, creamy shrimp and sweet corn risotto served casually on the porch.

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Coral Charm peonies take center stage in this vertical arrangement celebrating early summer’s favorite flower.

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ENTERTAINING

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Chef Dominic Zumpano of The Gallery in Lake Forest shares his recipe for decadent sour cream cheesecake.

Avid gardener and critically acclaimed landscape architect Craig Bergmann shares his tips for harvesting from home.

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ENTERTAINING A table set for al fresco risotto with simple bunches of basil taking the place of flowers.

AL FRESCO ALL SUMMER Summer entertaining doesn’t have to be a grilling occasion. Skip the open flames for a light and creamy risotto served casually on the porch. recipe and photography by Wendy Franzen

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ENTERTAINING Shrimp and Sweet Corn Risotto

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In a large, heavy bottomed saucepan, heat remaining 2 tablespoons olive oil over medium. Add shallots, thyme sprigs, Sweet corn and succulent wild-caught shrimp make great bedfel- and a 1/4 teaspoon salt, sautéing and stirring occasionally lows, and the gentle acidity of summer’s first tomatoes balance until softened, about 5 minutes. Add rice and cook a couple and delight. This risotto is equally delicious with lobster—simply of minutes, stirring constantly until grains appear semiswap one pound cooked and chopped lobster meat for the shrimp. translucent. Add the wine, stirring constantly until absorbed, about two minutes.

• 6 cups shellfish and corn stock (recipe follows) or lowAdd a ladle full of hot stock (about 1/2 cup) to rice, stirsodium chicken stock ring until almost absorbed. Repeat this process, a ladle full • 3 large ears corn, shucked (about 2 cups kernels) at a time, until rice is creamy and perfectly al dente, tasting • 2 tablespoons unsalted butter to make sure it isn’t crunchy, 20-25 minutes. You may have • 2 cloves garlic, minced and divided stock left over, and if you run out, don’t panic! Warm some • kosher or sea salt and freshly ground black pepper • 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, divided, plus more for extra broth or water and resume adding and stirring until desired doneness is reached). Remove from heat and discard drizzling • 1 lb 16/20 count shrimp, peeled and deveined (shells re- the thyme sprigs. Tear basil leaves into small pieces over the pot, then stir in lemon zest, 1/4 cup of parmesan, tarragon, served for stock, if making) shrimp and corn. Season with salt and pepper, and a splash • 2 medium shallots, chopped more broth if risotto needs loosening.

• 2 sprigs thyme • 1 1/2 cups arborio rice Toss the diced tomatoes with a drizzle of olive oil and a • 2/3 cup good dry white wine sprinkle of salt just before serving (don’t do this ahead of time • 8-10 basil leaves or juices will release). Spoon generous helpings of risotto into • zest of a large lemon shallow bowls and top with tomatoes, chives or chervil, and • 1/2 cup freshly grated parmesan cheese, divided remaining parmesan. Drizzle each bowl with a bit of olive oil • 2 tablespoons tarragon leaves, finely chopped and serve immediately.

• 1 large heirloom tomato, small diced • chervil, micro-chervil, or chopped fresh chives for garnish Shellfish and Corn Stock Pour stock into a medium saucepan and bring to a simmer. makes about 2 quarts Reduce heat and cover, keeping warm. serves four generously

Cut kernels from cob: Invert a small bowl and place in a large bowl (see above photo). Set tip of cob on small bowl and hold cob from stem end. Using a sharp knife, carefully cut downward so kernels and juices fall into large bowl. Drag back of knife down cob to extract any remaining juices. Repeat on all ears. Set empty cobs aside for stock, if making.

Shrimp and Sweet Corn Risotto

Making stock is a simple, unfussy task. If you have extra shells or cobs hanging around the freezer, throw them in the pot. If you only have Lobster shells, corn cobs, half an onion or no wine, that’s and thyme go into the pot for shellfish stock. okay too. Relax! The only requirement here is having 6-7 cups of liquid when simmering is done – enough to make your risotto.

Heat one tablespoon butter and half of the garlic in a large skillet over medium-low heat. Add corn kernels, season with a pinch of salt, a grind of pepper, and sauté, stirring occasionally, • 3 corn cobs until corn has softened, about 5 • shells from 1 lb shrimp and/or any reserved shells you may have minutes. Pour into a bowl and • 1 white or yellow onion, cut into quarters set aside.

• 1 bay leaf Place one tablespoon olive oil • 1/8 teaspoon peppercorns and remaining tablespoon butter • 1/2 cup dry white wine in pan and raise the heat to me- • 2 1/2 quarts water, or more to cover dium. Add rest of garlic and 30 seconds later the shrimp, a small Place all ingredients in a large stock pot, adding more water pinch of salt, and sauté 1 1/2 if needed to cover ingredients. Bring to a boil then reduce to minutes per side, or until shrimp a simmer. Let simmer for 45 minutes to an hour. are pink and just firm. Place on a Remove shells, cobs, and onion from pot and discard. Strain plate until cool enough to handle, through a fine sieve into an extra large bowl. Use immediately then chop into bite-sized pieces or cool and freeze for later use.

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THE GALLERY’S SOUR CREAM CHEESECAKE

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Forest & Bluff digs in, sleuthing mouthwatering recipes from local chefs and fabulous home cooks. recipe by Dominic Zumpano photography by Monica Kass Rogers

Chef Dominic Zumpano of The Gallery in Lake Forest tells us this lovely sour cream cheesecake works well with a variety of crusts.

We’ve baked it in a pecan-graham crust and added a luscious berry swirl on top, but you can make it with an Oreo cookie, shortbread, or other cookie crust if you prefer.

The Gallery’s Sour Cream Cheesecake Makes two 6-inch cakes For the crust: • 2 6-inch springform pans • 1 package honey-graham crackers (9 whole crackers) to make 1 cup crushed • 1 cup pecan meal (pulse approximately 1 1/2 cups whole pecans into a fine crumb in a food processor or order online at Guidry Organic Farms) • 1/2 cup sugar • 1 stick (1/2 cup) butter, melted For the filling: • 16 ounces cream cheese (two 8-ounce chubs), softened • 2/3 cup sugar • 4 large eggs • 1 cup heavy cream • 1 cup sour cream • 2 teaspoons vanilla paste • 1 tablespoon fresh-squeezed lemon juice For the berry swirl: • 2 tablespoons each, seedless raspberry and blackberry jam

Make crust: In the bowl of a food processor, break up 9 graham crackers.

Pulse to grind crackers into a fine powder. Add pecan meal.

Pulse again to combine crackers with pecans. Add sugar and melted butter. Pulse again to combine. Spray two 6-inch springform pans with non-stick vegetable spray; fit the bottom of each pan with a circle of baking parchment. Press the crumb crust up the sides and into the bottom of each pan. Set aside.

Make filling: Preheat oven to 325 degrees. In the bowl of a stand mixer with paddle attachment, whip cream cheese with sugar until fluffy. Whisk four large eggs together briefly; add eggs to sugar cheese mixture and whip to incorporate. Add sour and heavy creams, vanilla paste and lemon juice. Whip until smooth and evenly mixed, scraping the mixer bowl to ensure there aren’t any clumps of cream cheese left at the bottom.

Add swirl: Divide the filling into the two prepared pans. In two small bowls, stir each of the berry jams until very smooth. Dot surface of each cake’s filling with small dollops of jam. Using the tip of a chopstick, pull each dot of jam in different directions to create swirls. Place each cake on a square of aluminum foil to ensure there are no escaping drips from the springform pans. Bake at 325 for 50 to 55 minutes. Turn oven off, open oven and allow cakes to cool on the rack. Refrigerate cakes for 3 full hours. Serve slices of cake topped with fresh berries and a dollop of whipped cream.

The Gallery, located at 202 Wisconsin Avenue, Lake Forest, is open Thursday through Saturday for dinner and for special events on Sundays. For more information call 224-544-5961or visit thegallerylf.com.

Is there a recipe you’re dying to have? E-mail us at thedish@jwcmedia.com and we’ll start digging.

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HARVESTING FROM HOME Menu planning and flower arranging could not be simpler when we plant what we love and seasonally harvest. words by Craig Bergmann photography by Scott Shigley

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HERE ARE SO MANY limitations lately on how to get what we want at the store: Is it safe? Is it fresh? Is it expensive? Is this really what I want? Is it really what I like? It should make sense to us as gardeners that we plant what we like and harvest—as needed—what we want. Harkening back to seasonal harvesting seems to be the logical solution when planning our menus and our gardens. In this world of every fruit, cut-flower, and vegetable being available to us, we often lose the quality of ‘in-season’ produce.

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Vegetables and Fruit • If organic is your mantra, why not control the what, why, and when your produce is ready? Microgreens are early crops and so easy to start as soon as the ground warms.

• One can grow rotating crops almost year-round with a bit of cover.

• There is nothing like a home-grown tomato. Somehow, they always taste sweeter. Try Sweet 100 as a glory of ever-present cherry tomatoes to snack on, roast, or toss into salads.

• Too many apples? Bake a pie or share with family and friends!

• A home-grown asparagus patch is such a delight to watch as it grows.

Cut Flowers Just about everything one can grow can be cut for arrangements in the house. These choices are so seasonal, personal, and so much more original than the standard bunch of grocery store roses or tulips.

• Dormant branches can be used as future stakes for vining peas or beans, or as structural elements in floral arrangements. Cornus sericea ‘Cardinal’ (Cardinal Red Twig Dogwood) is a winter favorite!

• Minute flowers are often more appreciated when cut and put in a vase on one’s nightstand, desk, or kitchen windowsill… a ‘bee’s eye view’.

• We can tease the season by forcing branches into flower weeks before those in the garden.

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HE MOST INTERESTING MAN in Lake Forest has to be Robert Biddle V—and not just because the highly competitive 48-yearold father of four whacks two-handed forehands and two-handed backhands in tennis en route to championships, and is quick to tell befuddled opponents at the Lake Forest Club, “I’ll tell you after the match,” whenever they ask, “Are you a righty or a lefty?”

The same Bob Biddle, also a standout in paddle, has competed in 22—22!—Chicago Yacht Club to Mackinac races, the oldest annual freshwater distance (333 miles) race in the world; was a Chicago Board of Trade trader who started the corporate housing business At Home Inn Chicago with his wife, Elizabeth, in 2000; co-founded (and serves as president of ) Nevada-based Fuel Matrix LLC/Oxon2, which developed, patented, and commercialized a revolutionary approach to reducing harmful emissions from internal combustion engines in Europe, South America, and now the United States.

Oh, and he’s also a co-executive producer (with longtime Lake Forest resident Paul Sundberg and longtime Lake Bluff denizen Anne Stewart) of a movie—Canyon Del Muerto—that is in post-production as we read. It’s a film about Ann Axtell Morris (1900-1945), a pioneer in archaeology and co-discoverer of Anazasi, North America’s first civilization. Scenes include excavating cursed mummies in sacred burial grounds, surviving flash floods, repairing monumental ruins while dangling from ropes, and pulling Model T automobiles out of quicksand.

Get the feeling that Mr. Biddle did more today between 6-7 a.m. than folks will do for the rest of this decade? Thought so.

“We’ve all been stuck on these ‘islands’ for the longest time,” Biddle, speaking in late April, says, alluding to the state of isolation many have had to accept and endure since the start of the pandemic. “Now, thankfully, it’s looking more and more like we’ll finally be able to navigate toward normalcy.”

Biddle knows navigation. Biddle, as a youngster growing up in Nevada and the West Coast, got hooked on sailing at Camp Deerwood, in Holderness, New Hampshire—the setting for the 1981 movie On Golden Pond.

“I remember being on a Sunfish at camp, taking in the serenity, looking all around me, and listening to the water as I sailed,” said Biddle, who played tennis and wrestled for teams at Reed High School in Sparks, Nevada. “I had no idea at the time that The crew readies Precarious, a Pearson 32, for sale.

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“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”

competitive racing was even a thing.”

He eventually pounced—think of a tennis player near the net, transforming a tennis ball into a pile of yellow pulp with an overhead smash—on the opportunities to race atop water. Biddle “hopped from boat to boat” for battles on Lake Michigan after his days as a political science major at Loyola University in Chicago.

“Being close to nature excited me; it still does,” says Biddle, who, six years ago, moved from the Chicago neighborhood Old Town to Lake Forest with his family (wife Elizabeth, a native of La Grange and a Lyons Township High School graduate; sons Robert VI, Owen, and Charlie; and daughter Caroline). “There’s nothing more exhilarating than being at the helm, finding a groove, and experiencing the magic onboard.”

A member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange beginning in 1998, he and one set of crew mates survived an epic storm during a “Mac” race in the 1990s. His best finish to date in the race that ends on Lake Huron off Mackinac Island in Michigan is a fifth-place showing aboard a Nelson Marek 36. Typical length of a shift at the helm: four hours.

Biddle, who’s thinking of entering this summer’s “Mac” as a crew member of a boat named Turning Point, needs to complete only three more “Mac” races to land the coveted “Old Goat” (or, in some circles, “Island Goat”) status. Sailors who finish 25 races get to apply for membership in the Island Goat Sailing Society.

A total of 390 sailors had achieved the distinction through 2019, according to islandgoats.org. The first “Mac” was staged in 1898. Last year’s “Mac” was not held because of the pandemic.

Biddle’s favorite quote this year is one he’s treasured for many years, because he essentially lives by it. “(Country singer) Jimmy Dean said it,” Biddle says. “I love it—you can apply it to many areas in your life. It’s, ‘I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.’ ”

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When pandemic lockdown made it impossible for Susan Lawson Bouma to paint in her Vero Beach studio, the artist did not give up doing what she loves. Instead, she created a new place to work—steps from the front door of her Lake Forest home. words by Sherry Thomas photography by Katrina Wittkamp

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OR NEARLY 50 years, Susan Lawson Bouma’s proverbial “happy place” has been in front of a canvas. The colorful, oversized abstract paintings she creates are bold, infused with energy and movement and often left without titles so those who acquire them can make their own artistic interpretations.

“I rarely name paintings,” says Bouma, who moved to Lake Forest with husband, Robert, and their young family in 1979.

“People can look at them and see what they see and feel what they feel. I believe naming my paintings is limiting because it influences the viewer.”

She accidentally discovered a passion for painting in the 1960s when she was called in to substitute for a New York City public school art teacher who walked out after the students threw paint in class. She spent the rest of the year as the school’s art teacher and has been devoted to developing her skills as a painter ever since, studying art in America’s major cities: New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.

Bouma surrounded by her work.

A native of Cedar Rapids, Iowa (also home to the legendary Grant Wood, most famous for his iconic American Gothic painting), Bouma started out by studying the masters in oil— drawing inspiration from visits to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as Sotheby’s and Christie’s auction catalogs.

Focusing on French impressionists Monet, Cezanne, Matisse, and John Singer Sargent, as well as American impressionist painter Frank Benson, she learned about color mixing and composition. About 15 years ago, Bouma became interested in abstract painting after watching an artist friend pour paint on an unprimed canvas on the floor of her studio. This led Bouma to study American abstract expressionist painters Helen Frankenthaler and Joan Mitchell. It also led her back to the classroom. Under the guidance of Deborah Gooch, a notable Vero Beach-based artist and teacher at the Vero Beach Museum of Art, Bouma began to hone her skills. After a few years of studying with Gooch, Bouma was invited work beside her in her studio—the Vero Beach studio she maintains today with three other artists.

“When I came back from Florida early in the pandemic, I didn’t realize that I would be away from my studio for nearly a year,” explains Bouma, who majored in English and History at Coe College before moving to Manhattan, where she studied art at the New School and later earned a master’s degree at New York University. “I was anxious to paint but no room in my home was suitable. That’s what led me to the garage. While it’s a bit shabby, it has high ceilings and good light—even an old-fashioned sink. On warmer days, I could open the garage doors.”

“I’m thrilled when someone connects with one of my paintings”

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Bouma in her Lake Forest studio.

This would not be Bouma’s first home studio. When she and Robert bought the 1918 home more than 40 years ago, they created a space to paint on the third floor by adding a skylight. As time has passed, this room became the sewing room, and the wrapping room, and eventually the storage room.

But Bouma had found a new place to paint: a studio at Gorton Community Center that she shared with a group of like-minded female Lake Forest painters in the ’80s and early ’90s. The group was critiqued weekly by the chair of Lake Forest College Art Department professor Michael Croydon, whose sculptures are displayed prominently around Lake Forest.

Some of the work Bouma has completed over the last year will be on display at Arch + Fletcher & Fork, 913 Green Bay Road in Winnetka, through June 12. Bouma also donated one of her pieces to last month’s “Cattails and Cocktails” auction to benefit Lake Forest Open Lands Association. Given everything that’s happened over the last year, she is particularly excited to share her work with others.

“I’m thrilled when someone connects with one of my paintings,” says Bouma. “The thought of my work on display in someone’s home is powerful and gratifying.”

Bouma, who served on the Board of Trustees of the Vero Beach Museum of Art for six years and is still involved in the Vero Beach art community—including a solo show in 2019—feels she was fortunate to have a place to work during the pandemic.

Artists rely on the community and camaraderie with other artists and Bouma was happy to paint on occasion with Lake Bluff artist Vanessa Clarke, a recent graduate of the MBA program at the Art Institute, who had to give up her studio

in the city due to the pandemic.

Even her grandchildren came to paint— most often 8-year-old Nelly Herbert, daughter of Whitley Bouma Herbert, who lives around the corner.

“She came over to paint a canvas for her mother for Christmas and I said ‘Nelly, would you like a few pointers?’ and she said ‘No, thank you.’ She wanted to do her own thing and I thought that was great,” Bouma explains. “But I know Nelly is proud of me. Whitley overheard her on a Zoom call for school and she was holding up a painting and announced, ‘My Nana is an artist’.”

Thanks to becoming vaccinated, Bouma was able to return to her studio in Florida this past spring. “Having the garage space is what got me through COVID. It really did,” she adds.

“I missed the give and take and energy of having other artists around but to be able to just walk out the door to the garage and look at the painting I was working on and put down a few strokes and sit down and think about it … it was truly a gift.”

For more information about Susan Lawson Bouma, visit susanbouma.com. For more information on Arch + Fletcher & Fork where Bouma’s work is being shown, visit fletcherandfork.com.

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Lynn and Jim Bertram on the porch of 725 Sheridan Road.

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725 Sheridan Road, Lake Forest, in springtime.

Built in 1859, 725 Sheridan Road is one of the oldest substantial homes in Lake Forest. After years of happy family memories in ‘The Nook,’ as it is known, owners Jim and Lynn Bertram are ready to move on, allowing a new family the opportunity to own this great home. words by Rochelle Newman Rubinoff portrait photography by Monica Kass Rogers styling by Theresa DeMaria hair & make-up by Leanna Ernest of Distinct Artists

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T IS NOT OFTEN THAT one of the most charming, beautiful, and historic homes in Lake Forest becomes available.

Located just steps from both Market Square and Lake Michigan, this turn of the century Victorian provides both indoor and outdoor spaces that promise to provide the backdrop for years of family memory making.

In fact, when the current owners, Lynn and Jim Bertram, purchased the home eight years ago, they were not even in the market for a new home. They had just finished remodeling their kitchen in Whispering Oaks and were perfectly happy there.

But when Lynn saw realtor Suzanne Myer’s “sneak peak” listed on Facebook—well, she thought she’d just take a look.

Walking up to this incredible home with the stately front porch is a moment Lynn will never forget.

“It had me at hello,” she says, when describing her first impression of this breathtaking property on Sheridan Road.

And indeed, the hype lives up to its reputation. This show-

“This is one of my favorite houses in all of Lake Forest.’

And it really has proven to be a really happy house”

stopping porch wraps around the front and western side of the house. There is a charming porch swing hanging in the open section of the porch.

And the wonderful screenedin porch can be entered either through the formal living room or from the front. It is cooled by ceiling fans and green and white striped awnings.

“When we first saw it, Suzanne said, ‘This is a happy house. This is one of my favorite houses in all of Lake Forest.’ And it really has proven to be a really happy house,” Lynn says.

“We have viewed ourselves, from the beginning, as stewards of this great place,” Jim says. “And now there will be another family who will have their opportunity to live in this great home and be stewards of it.”

“We are also members of the First Presbyterian Church and have been the entire time we’ve lived in Lake Forest,” Jim continues. “Being across the street from the church is

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daughters finished growing up—the time has come for a new chapter in their lives, so the Bertrams are ready to pass this historic beauty on to the next deserving family.

For history buffs, this may be opportunity impossible to pass up. In fact, Miller says that this may be the oldest substantial home in Lake Forest.

“It was built in 1859, so that is before the Chicago Fire, before the Civil War; there is not much left like that along the North Shore. The home is a contributing structure in a historic district.”

The original house was a small home and was built between 1858 The gracious entryway of ‘The Nook’. and 1859 as Lake Forest Academy’s boarding house, where meals were kind of neat. And to some extent, we see this old house as served to boarding students from Lake Forest Academy. being an extension of the church. We’ve hosted a number of The house was built by Sylvester Lind, a town founder gatherings here. We’ve had some really great parties here for and Scottish immigrant. The house was then located on the current site of Lake Forest College’s Durand Instipretty good-sized groups.”

“This porch is just an amazing place to spend an evening,” tute which faces the First Presbyterian Church and is Jim explains. “We have dinner out here frequently and it is made of distinctive red stone.

Soon after the Civil War, David J. Lake—one of the fun to simply hang out. Whether a large group or a small group, we’ve had a lot of fun and thrown some amazing par- original Lake Forest Association trustees—is believed to have acquired the home while his son attended Lake ties throughout the years.”

Of course, the magic does not stop at the porch. The house Forest Academy. Lake later decided to build a new home also embodies that rare quality of being large and expansive, for his family, and moved this home to its current site, then known as 9 North Sheridan. yet warm and inviting at the same time.

In approximately 1874, the home was sold to the Mrs. In fact, the house is nicknamed the Nook. As Arthur Miller, local author and renowned historian, explains, it is Elizabeth Turner Whitney, a widow, who lived there called the Nook, “because there is a big fireplace opposite with her three children. Miller notes that Mrs. Whitthe front door. Then curving around each side are built-in ney’s father was a railroad pioneer and became president benches, and that look was called ‘the nook’. That is short for of the railroad that travels through Lake Forest and inglenook, which was a popular arts and crafts style. It was south through Highland Park and Glencoe and south the defining feature of the home.” In fact, it is only one of into Chicago.

Circa 1900, the architectural firm of Frost & Grainger five fireplaces located throughout the home.

When talking about the home, it sounds as if it has a life was hired by the Aldrich family to enlarge and enhance the small house. At this time, they expanded the east livof its own.

“You know, she’s old but she is solid. You love her and she ing room and added glass windows and doors with the loves you back,” Lynn says. “Yes, it requires upkeep, but every same pattern as the train station on McKinley Road.

In 1996, the detached garage—which was originally a house does.”

Over twenty years ago, the Bertrams, originally from two-story barn—was moved and attached to the house.

Springfield, were looking for a way to move back to the A new foundation was then poured and an entire new Midwest and be closer to family. While driving around look- section of the home was created. A butler’s pantry, powing at homes, “we instantly fell in love with Lake Forest and der room, large gourmet kitchen, back bedroom, and full said ‘this is where we needed bath were all entirely new in 1996. New heating, cooling, to be.’ Luckily we were able to plumbing, and electrical systems were also added.

The wrap-around porch at 725 Sheridan Road enjoys a distinguished 19th century find a great house in Whisper725 Sheridan Road. ing Oaks and the rest is history,” design pedigree and has been meticulously maintained with mechanical, electrical, and esthetic improvements Jim says.

They have both been active while maintaining the integrity and beauty of the home.

While it won’t be easy to say goodbye, the Bertrams in the community, Lynn serving on the board of the Lake Forest are ready for their next chapter. And ready for the next Historical society and the whole lucky family to take over stewardship of this magnificent family being active members of home. the First Presbyterian Church.

While it is admittedly hard For more information on this historic property, visit to leave the house where their 725Sheridan.info.

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