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Veteran sailors race in ‘The Mac’ By Emily Spectre
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his year marks the 107th Race to Mackinac, and three Wilmette residents — Bob O’Brien, Scott Sims and Matthew Beer — sailed in what’s known as the oldest annual freshwater distance race in the world. “The Mac” began July 10 at the Chicago Lighthouse east of Navy Pier, where more than 3,000 sailors aboard 324 sailboats departed for a 333-mile trip that ended at Mackinac Island in Michigan. Sims’ Slapshot II finished 47th racing for the ChicagoMackinac Trophy. O’Brien’s Friendly Confines captured 29th Continues on page 12
If you build it... Houses — designed by Frank Lloyd Wright among others — a key to success of Glencoe “It was Anson Taylor who first recognized the area’s potential,” lencoe owes its existence to Ettelson said. “He built a pier and an enterprising East Coast sold timber [from the area’s transplant — a fur trader woods]. He opened a post office. who sought to make money with He opened a hostel called La Pier a series of innovative properties Inn where the stagecoach stopped. on Lake Michigan — and a busi“But when the railroad was ness partnership known as the built in the mid-1850s, TaylorsGlencoe Company. port suffered.” Both efforts failed to make Taylorsport, like Wilmette and much money. Yet today’s Glencoe other North Shore towns, was remains the beneficiary of these born of a goal to create an ideal bold ventures. Speculation was community, realizing a small but taken, as Glencoe Historical pioneering vision that put the spot Society president Karen Ettelson squarely in sight for property deexplained in a recent interview, velopment. Development came in earnest, with thoughtful planning for deEttelson said, with another East velopment. Glencoe’s history began in 1835 Coast newcomer, New York native with a man named Anson Taylor, Dr. Alexander Hammond. a carpenter from Connecticut, Dr. Hammond had married and who traded in furs and built the gone as far west as Iowa. But the first wooden bridge across the doctor didn’t like Iowa. Instead, Chicago River. After coming he settled near Rockford, where north with his family, Taylor built Dr. Hammond made money as a a harbor into the lake. grain farmer. Unsatisfied, he went He called it Taylorsport. to Chicago, which he also didn’t By Scott Holleran
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The bridge in Ravine Bluffs is the only one ever designed and built by architect Frank Lloyd Wright
like, until he roamed north to a farm owned by a businessman named Walter Gurnee, head of the Chicago and Milwaukee Railroad (later the Chicago & North Western). Dr. Hammond bought the farm from Gurnee in 1868 with the goal of developing the less than four-square-mile area. Finding investors to underwrite his vision proved difficult until Dr. Hammond connected with Charles Brown, an Evanston developer, and made a deal to find other investors. The men formed
Grownups buying coloring books — for themselves Meg Handelman
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oloring books for grownups are topping national best-seller lists, and customers of Lake Forest Book Store and The Book Stall
at Chestnut Court in Winnetka are taking note. “They’re extremely popular,” said Laura Skinner of Lake Forest Book Store, which carries 10 different versions of adult coloring books.
a partnership and agreed to specific terms and conditions, such as an agreement for each investor to build two homes — one each to live in, one to sell — so that each investor would be existentially committed to Glencoe, with the pledge to fund construction of a school and a church. Calling themselves the Glencoe Company, they incorporated Glencoe in 1869. “The Glencoe Company included some investors who lost a fortune in the Chicago Fire of
Owen Keenhen of The Book Stall said the store had a hard time getting the coloring books in stock due to high national demand. It now carries two different coloring books for grownup customers. “Secret Garden: An Inky Treasure Hunt and Coloring Book” and “Enchanted Forest: An Inky Treasure Hunt and Coloring Book,” both by Joanna Basford, are best sellers at both stores. Each 100-page book retails for
1871, so a lot of them weren’t able to realize their goals,” Ettelson said. “But the park [Lakefront Park] that exists today was part of their original agreement, and Dr. Hammond is credited as being the one man who made Glencoe.” A general practice doctor, he had previously lived in Skaneateles, N.Y., known as an attractive lakefront village. Ettelson said that, in creating Glencoe, Dr Hammond sought “to embrace Continues on page 12
$15.95. “I think adults have really come to see them as a great stress release, a great way to pass some time,” Skinner said. “We had a customer in yesterday whose neurologist recommended [adult coloring books].” Skinner said Lake Forest Book Store began carrying coloring books for grownups when they first came Continues on page 12
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