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Door to past reopens at Galena’s Grant Home / 5

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Cedar waxwings show off summer talent / 7

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Spot the local landmarks in HBO’s ‘Lovecraft Country’ / 3

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An expert taster shares favorite finds to consider adding to your own wine racks.

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By JAMES NOKES

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Chehalem Winery is located in the cool-climate Willamette Valley, Oregon’s largest AVA or American Viticultural Area.

Cool-climate Oregon wines command attention

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ccess to new vineyards was met with momentary apprehension.

Winemakers are like athletes who seek out familiarity because there is a great deal of the unknown in their chosen profession. Just like a baseball player who wears the same batting gloves during a hitting streak or a hockey player who doesn’t shave his beard during the playoffs, winemakers develop their go-to blocks or rows in a vineyard, that no matter what curve ball Mother Nature throws in a given season, these special plots will yield the desired results.

Katie Santora had nurtured blocks like those since 2012, as winemaker at Chehalem. But with the Chehalem Mountains Pinot Noir 2018 ($30), some fruit was outsourced for the first time.

“There’s focus and strength, yet it’s approachable,” Santora said. “It’s fruit forward yet delicate.”

Located in the Willamette Valley, Oregon’s largest AVA or American Viticultural Area, Santora produced

an elaborate layered pinot with blueberry and blackberry fruit flavors.

There’s tea leaf, tobacco, allspice and wet leaves tied in as well on a wine where the fruit flavors accompany the spice and earth notes.

“I was nervous at first because I didn’t know the land as well,” Santora said. “But what it did was broaden my winemaker’s cap and allowed me to further understand the area. It opened up a new set of skills [for the] vineyard that were closed off to me, you can get stuck in a rut when you know a vineyard well.”

The Chehalem INOX Chardonnay 2018 ($20) is unique because it’s stripped of oak and, with its 100% stainless-steel fermentation, an abundance of fruit

flavors shine. While chardonnay plantings are on the rise in Oregon, pinot gris has deep roots in the state.

It’s the second most planted grape in Oregon, and the Chehalem Mountains Pinot Gris 2019 ($20) has crisp and fruit flavors that Santora said are “good with food.” Planted in Oregon since the 1960s, the pinot gris has pear and peach flavors. It’s a medium-bodied white, and has some heft as it is more mouth-filling than the INOX. There’s also a mineral note in the profile that is flinty in nature. Think about wet, moss-covered rocks in a creek to describe the flavor that helps keep the wine fresh and crisp.

“It’s a grape that does well in the cooler climate,” Santora said. “We go for the Alsatian style and want the wine to be crisp and bright. We have good acid retention.”

When it comes to harvest time for pinot gris, Santora said management of the vineyard is critical. Its ripeness can “go south quickly.” When it comes

to ripeness, she wants a wine that’s still vibrant.

The Chehalem Rosé of Pinot Noir 2018 ($25) is loaded with said vibrancy.

Through trial and error in 2013 and 2014, Santora was able to dial in a style that fits the Corral Creek Vineyard.

The best rosés in a crowded market are the ones grown with intention. At Chehalem, the Scott Henry trellising system, which has spurs pointing upwards and downwards among other techniques, gives the Chehalem rosé its own farming process.

The result is a wine with fresh strawberry and grapefruit flavors that engage in a playful challenge for attention. That’s something Chehalem has done with its entire portfolio; it’s made cool-climate wines that challenge the best in Oregon for attention.

• James Nokes has been tasting, touring and collecting in the wine world for several years. Email him at jamesnokes25@yahoo.com.

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Local sights on screen in ‘Lovecraft Country’ premiering on HBO

terrors of white America and the terrifying monsters that could be ripped from [an H.P.] Lovecraft paperback.” he wait is almost over to view Randy Ream provides a nugget of “Lovecraft Country,” filmed in trivia that shows way fewer than six part in Elburn and other Illidegrees of separation for northern nois towns two summers ago, Illinois and Lovecraft, a horror fiction and premiering on HBO and writer who died in 1937. He said the HBO Max at 8 p.m. Aug. 16. magician Mardoni (Clayton Hines), The 10-episode series is executive who lived in Elburn for a time, attendproduced by the Academy Award-win- ed a seance held by magician Harry ning director and writer of “Get Out,” Houdini, who hired Lovecraft as a Jordan Peele, and J.J. Abrams, a creghost writer. ator of “Lost” and a “Star An extensive build-out Wars” director. was done to create the “The whole town … enrestaurant scene. joyed having [the cast and “They put in a whole crew] come in here and little diner with stools film here,” said Janelle and booths and had a litReam, a partner at the tle kitchen in the back,” family-owned Ream’s Randy Ream said.

Meat Market in Elburn.

Extensive scouting The production comfor locations was done pany transformed the fafor the series, and Randy cades of businesses along Ream said the building Route 47 in downtown Elwas picked not just for burn into a town’s circa the visual appropriate1955 Main Street to film ness to the time period, scenes for the drama. but because it had just The former site of the market, undergone a renovation. now The Old Elburn Hall, a music “It was nice and clean because we and events venue created by the just redid it,” he said. “The actors Ream family, was used for the show. don’t like going into old abandoned The building was transformed into a buildings [with] mold. They liked diner and the starting-off point for a doing it here.” high-speed chase, said Randy Ream, Someone else who will be watching Janelle’s husband. for the Elburn portion of the action is The premium cable channel series John Nevenhoven, village adminisalso filmed in Marengo, Woodstock, trator.

Hebron and La Salle, as well as in “Overall, the filming went fairly Ogle County on Route 52 and in White well,” Nevenhoven said. “Obviously, Pines State Park. when you shut down a major thorHBO notes the show, based on oughfare [Route 47] through downthe 2016 novel of the same name by town … it causes some problems.”

Matt Ruff, “follows Atticus Freeman Rather than focus on the celebri(Jonathan Majors) as he meets up with ties filming, he said he primarily was his friend Letitia (Jurnee Smollett) on the scene “making sure we were and his Uncle George (Courtney B. getting traffic through [to] keep the Vance) to embark on a road trip across disruption to a minimum.”

1950s Jim Crow America in search of Despite the traffic headaches, he his missing father (Michael Kenneth called it a neat experience for the Williams). This begins a struggle to community. survive and overcome both the racist “When they were done [shooting

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TOP: Brian Harding of Glass Guy Chicago works on repairing a window on one of the 1948 Packard woody antique vehicles used in an HBO film shot at the White Pines State Park and in western Ogle County in August 2018. Harding was working on the vehicle while it was parked at the White Pines Skating Center on Pines Road in Mt. Morris. MIDDLE: Set workers for the upcoming HBO series “Lovecraft Country” transform the Woodstock Square into a 1950s town in preparation for filming in 2018. BOTTOM: Onlookers get a closer look at the sets during a break in filming of “Lovecraft Country” for HBO on Main Street in downtown Elburn on July 25, 2018. for the day], all came downtown to see the different facades and how it had been made over – and that people really enjoyed,” Nevenhoven said.

He believes the only other major filming in Elburn was for a 1974 Art Carney movie, “Harry and Tonto,”

which shot at a cemetery there. He said it was a simpler process back when the village was much smaller.

See if you can spot the local landmarks in the “Lovecraft Country” trailer at www.hbo.com/lovecraft-country.

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Outdoor dining is provided on the patio and under tenting at The Eastwood Restaurant and Bar.

Golf course tees up hidden gem dining IF YOU GO

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ucked away on the northeast side of Streator, just a short drive from Starved Rock State Park, you’ll find a sprawling golf course that’s home to one of the region’s best dining destinations, the hidden gem known as The Eastwood Restaurant and Bar. The nine-hole public course in Streator borders the gorgeous Vermilion River. It’s a course that’s enjoyable for golfers of all skill levels, boasting five water features and some deceptively challenging doglegs. A scattering of shady trees and pristine white picket fence gives The Eastwood the feeling of a classic country course. Its clever design and relaxed pace make it one of the most standout golfing destinations in Starved Rock Country.

To sweeten the pot, there’s even more to discover there. The Eastwood’s clubhouse restaurant serves up some of the best food in the region, and offers a full bar with craft brews, locally made wines and an expansive cocktail menu.

If you’re in the market for a social distance-friendly dining destination, look no further. The Eastwood is serv-

■■ WHAT: The Eastwood Restaurant

and Bar ■■ WHERE: 2000 Eastwood Ave., Streator ■■ INFO: eastwoodtwincreeks.com, 815-673-5551

The Eastwood Restaurant is known for creative dishes including its delectable burgers. ing the public at a beautiful patio and massive open-air tent space, providing plenty of shade. You can enjoy the line of signature drinks from a table overlooking the rolling golf course, or take a deep dive into the menu of weekly specials and delicious fan favorites. If you’re looking for some air conditioning following an afternoon out on the course, The Eastwood also offers cozy interior dining in its smartly decorat-

ed bar area.

Dig into weekly specials like the famous prime rib or fried chicken and house-made slaw. And don’t miss such menu staples as pecan-crusted salmon, a 10-ounce New York strip and basil pesto pasta (served with an outstanding butter herb sauce). The dining atmosphere is relaxed and properly distant, as one would expect at a tucked away golf course, and the

service is always impeccable.

Be sure to like them on Facebook to see special menu items and limited-time offers.

If you’re in the mood for a libation after your round, The Eastwood also offers one of the best bars in the area.

On tap, you’ll find two locally brewed Tangled Roots craft beers, as well as a revolving selection of other regional craft brews. Up for a mixed drink?

You’ll find favorites like white sangria, spiked shake-ups, red sangria, Moscow mules, pineapple mules and even jalapeño margaritas all on the menu. If you’d rather sip one of The Eastwood’s signature cocktails at home, the bar also creates 14-ounce, made-to-order sealed bottles of them to enjoy along with a carryout meal, a delicious souvenir from your time in Streator.

Door to past reopens as Grant Home welcomes guests

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ALENA – While Illinois may be the Land of Lincoln, Honest Abe isn’t the only U.S. president who once called this Midwestern state home.

Before Ulysses S. Grant became a legendary Civil War general, and later helped bring together a nation torn apart by the upheaval, he was a clerk at his father’s tannery business in Galena.

The 18th president moved to The Prairie State in spring 1860. He and his wife, Julia, rented a modest brick home in Galena, while he worked for his father’s business. Grant would spend only a year in Galena, but, during that time, the wheels were set in motion that eventually would take him on a historic journey to the highest ranks of the military, and the highest office in the land.

In addition to viewing the home, you also can take in the sights, sounds and tastes of a town that serves up natural beauty and authentic history, events and attractions, specialty shops, and plenty of places to grab a bite to eat. It’s no wonder the city attracts nearly a million visitors a year.

The Grant Home, built in 1860 – originally as a residence for the city clerk – was rented by the Grants for $100 a year. He left the following spring to serve in the Army, rising through the ranks and eventually playing a key role in the Union victory. He returned to a hero’s welcome in Galena in 1865, and was presented the house as a gift by a group of local Republicans who bought it for $2,500.

Although he would return to Galena only occasionally after being elected president, last visiting in 1880, he continued to use the home as his official political and voting address, remarking of Galena in 1873, “although it is probable I will never live much time among you, but in the future be only a visitor as I am at present … I hope to retain my residence here … I expect to cast my vote here always.”

Caretakers maintained the house, ensuring it was always ready for the president’s visits. One local newspaper at the time reported it was “in excellent order and ready for occupation at any time,” adding that “visitors are always admitted.”

Today, visitors still are admitted – the home reopened on July 15 after being closed because of the pandemic.

IF YOU GO ■■ WHAT: Ulysses S. Grant Home, 500

Bouthillier St., Galena ■■ WHEN: Wednesday through Sunday tours at 9:30, 10:30 and 11:30 a.m., and 1:30, 2:30 and 3:30 p.m. on firstcome basis; limited to 10 people each ■■ COST: $5 for adults, $3 for children ■■ INFO: 815-777-3310, granthome.org or Facebook distancing. Congregating inside the home in any room will be prohibited, and frequently touched surfaces will be disinfected between each tour.”

Alex T. Paschal photos / apaschal@saukvalley.com U.S. Grant State Historic Sites offers ABOVE: Chuck Hargan leads a tour of the Grant Home in Galena. The home at 500 Bouthillier more than just the president’s home.

St. in Galena, which was built in 1860, is open Wednesday through Sunday. BELOW: The The house is part of the three-block library was the Grants’ favorite room. The space contains Julia’s 15-pound Bible and numerous Grant Home Historic Neighborhood gifts and mementos from their travels and his two terms as president. that includes several small mid-19th century homes. There’s also Grant State Park, south of the Grant Home, where visitors can have a picnic and see Long House, a circa 1851 log cabin that was moved to the site from nearby Elizabeth in 1976. There, house guests can see what a typical settler’s home in Jo Daviess County looked like.

Other Grant-related sites include the DeSoto House Hotel at 203 S. Main St. Not only is it the oldest operating hotel in Illinois – opening in 1855 – rooms 209 and 211 served as Grant’s presidential campaign headquarters.

Elsewhere, the Washburne House was home to Grant’s political adviser and former U.S. congressman Elihu B. Washburne. Visitors will have to wait to see the inside of this historic building, which remains closed for the season because of the pandemic.

“We don’t have the staffing to open According to the home’s website, cope with COVID-19. the Washburne Home on a regular “the restored U.S. Grant Home is a “We’re usually open year round,” basis,” Miller said. “Out of concern for two-story brick structure. The first site manager Terry Miller said. “This floor consists of entry hall, parlor, year, with COVID-19, things are a little the health and safety of our volundining room, library, kitchen with different. Being a state-owned facility, teers, we’ve decided to keep the home closed for this season.” pantry, and staff room. The second we took direction on everything from The change is just one of the many floor contains five bedrooms, one with the governor’s office.” realities in a time in which the latest a connecting dressing room.

The Grant Home has limited its war isn’t civil, but scientific, as the “All of the rooms are decorated and hours to Sunday through Wednesday world battles a microscopic enemy. furnished to represent a mid-1860s on a reduced schedule, offering six Like the man the Grant Home appearance. Many of the furnishings tours per day. Tours are first-come, celebrates, the staff there aren’t ready belonged to the Grant family. In 1960, with no reservations, from 9:30 a.m. to surrender. They’ve had to retreat the home was designated a National to 3:30 p.m. The size of tour groups is Historic Landmark, and in 1966 was limited to a maximum of 10 people per and regroup, but now they’re ready placed on the National Register of tour, and guests must wear masks. to welcome visitors to their historic Historic Places.”

Social distancing guidelines also will home front in a town where the past Since reopening, the Grant Home be enforced on the property. and present intersect at what’s been – owned and managed by the Illinois “The Grant tour will be given called by more than one national magDepartment of Natural Resources – is outdoors, and guests will be allowed azine one of the “Most Beautiful Main taking precautionary measures to to walk through the home while social Streets” in the U.S.

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Locked-room mysteries a perfect summer escape

By MICHAEL DIRDA

For The Washington Post When you need respite from our impossible times, try solving some impossible crimes. Like playing chess or doing crosswords, reading classic fair-play detective fiction provides a welcome, if temporary, escape.

In books of the 1920s and ‘30s, one can experience the calm of austere intellection, observe the restoration of order after chaos. In Britain, Agatha Christie specialized in murders committed by suspects you would never suspect. In contrast to the Golden Age who-and-howdunits, modern crime fiction generally emphasizes people over puzzles. Some of the genre’s best books are societal dramas, such as Chester Himes’ often darkly comic accounts of Harlem detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson.

Most people now read Raymond Chandler less for the mystery than for the sassy similes and the weary melancholy in Philip Marlowe’s voice.

“Farewell, My Lovely” is as moving as anything by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

And therein lies a problem. The more literary the crime novel, the more you need to deal with unruly emotions. You quickly feel yourself caring about the victim, the detective, even the criminal. In short, you’re back in the world from which you had hoped to escape.

This is one reason you might want to try some of the modern honkaku – meaning authentic or orthodox – mysteries from Japan. In the 1980s, a circle of young people turned away from socially aware crime fiction to form a study group devoted to the analysis of classic puzzles and miracle crimes, especially the locked-room masterpieces of John Dickson Carr.

The most brilliant members of the Kyoto University Mystery Club eventually went on to professional writing careers. But they were little known to American readers until Locked Room International began issuing its best books in translations by Ho-Ling Wong. “The Red Locked Room” [is] a new collection of the dazzlingly tricky stories of Tetsuya Ayukawa.

In general, honkaku mysteries emphasize ingenuity above all else. Some of Ayukawa’s stories do feature the appealing Ryuzo Hoshikage, an amateur armchair detective with a fondness for Sherlockian flourishes. “The White Locked Room” neatly reworks the classic trope of murder in a house surrounded by freshly fallen snow.

Village Market - Open Air August 22, 2020 “Whose Body?” is even more ingenious. Three people receive parcels containing an empty medicine bottle, a white vinyl rope or a revolver. All of these items then play a role in a grisly murder scheme in which timing, as they say, is everything. In “The Red Locked Room,” a hospital’s autopsy laboratory serves to hide clever and heartless butchery.

After finishing that mind-spinning collection, I decided to treat myself to Pushkin Vertigo’s edition of Ross and Shika Mackenzie’s translation of “The Tokyo Zodiac Murders,” the 1981 novel by Soji Shimada that served as a model for the younger Kyoto writers.

In 2014, England’s Guardian newspaper selected it as second – just below Carr’s masterpiece, “The Three Coffins” (aka “The Hollow Man”) – in its list of the Top 10 “impossible murder” novels.

Motivation, atmosphere and characterization tend to be perfunctory in most honkaku mysteries – and that’s part of their appeal. But “The Tokyo Zodiac Murders” is much more involving. In 1936, an artist, obsessed with astrology, apparently plans to slaughter six family members – his own daughters, stepdaughters and nieces – and use their body parts to create the ultimate woman, Azoth.

Before he can execute his inhuman design, he is found inside his locked studio with his skull bashed in. [But a] week after the painter’s death, the women disappear. Eventually, their remains are discovered in astrologically significant locations, each body … missing a piece.

Forty years pass, and the bizarre deaths remain unsolved. On a whim, a modern-day astrologer named Kiyoshi Mitarai resolves to figure out what really happened. Here’s a small clue: Why are the bodies buried in the ground at different depths?

Once you’ve stopped being amazed at the answer, you’ll want to check out other Japanese mysteries, many available from Locked Room International. These days, we can use all the escapism we can get.

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Taking interesting dives into the natural world around us, Pam Otto opens new avenues of exploration.

Cedar waxwings show off summertime talent

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hether we realize it or not, we all have hidden talents – a special skill or talent we trot out from time to time to amaze and amuse ourselves and others. My college roommate Alisan, an engineer by trade, can juggle just about anything you put in front of her. My friend Lisa can read – and comprehend – really, really fast. And, not to be outdone, I can make a weird popping noise with my ears.

Our wildlife neighbors have hidden talents too. Did you know, for instance, that beavers are just as good at digging burrows as they are at building lodges and dams? Or that certain species of caterpillars are adept at flinging frass – entomology lingo for insect poop – more than 3 feet from where they’re perched? (It doesn’t discourage determined entomologists, but it is a great way to throw potential predators off track.)

I was reminded of animals with surprising skills while hanging out with nature campers in a forest preserve one summer. We’d noticed some mayflies earlier in our walk, so it wasn’t a complete surprise to see birds – at least a dozen and maybe more – flitting back and forth above the creek. They were clearly catching insects on the fly, which is not an uncommon activity at this time of year. But the birds were most definitely not flycatchers.

In our area, we have several types of birds that are noted for their ability to gulp insects in midair. We’ve got a nice variety of those aforementioned flycatchers, many of which bear that description in their name, but also a number that don’t, including eastern phoebes, eastern wood pewees and eastern kingbirds. Then we have the chimney swifts that patrol the skies over our downtowns and neighborhoods, and the swallows, a family that also includes purple martins.

Yet the birds we saw that day over the creek didn’t belong to any of these insectivorous clans. Nope. They were cedar waxwings.

These charming local residents are known more for their ability to eat prodigious quantities of stationary foods, namely berries, than for their aerial acrobatics. Nonetheless, there they were, feasting on the insect bounty that included those fat-filled mayflies in addition to other nutrient-dense species.

The sight of these beautiful birds displaying their hidden talent kindled a memory I’ve held for close to 20 years now, of the first time I saw cedar

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Named for their propensity for eating cedar berries (which actually are fleshy cones), as well as the wax-like red bars on their wings, cedar waxwings have another fine quality they display only in summertime. waxwings eating insects.

New to birding, I was standing alongside the Menominee River in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I was outside our family’s cabin trying out a new pair of binoculars, when I noticed a group of birds flying maybe 20 feet above the water.

As I focused in, I expected to see some of those more familiar insectivores – like maybe phoebes. We’d had an eastern phoebe nest on the cabin that summer. But, darn it, the birds I was watching bore no resemblance to any bird I knew of that ate insects.

After several minutes of intense peering through the binocs, coupled with occasional bare-eyed squints, I was ready to admit defeat. But then, wonder of wonders, one of the birds came over and landed in a nearby poplar. With its rounded crest, black mask and distinctive red marks on the wings, even I could recognize that the mystery “flycatchers” were in fact cedar waxwings. Whaaaaat?

The discovery sent me scrambling for the bird behavior books where,

after reading slowly since I’m not my friend Lisa, I learned that insects make up less than a third of the cedar waxwing’s diet. They are, however, added in right when the birds need them most – in summer, when nutritional demands are high.

Wings, legs and exoskeletons aside, insects are an excellent source of protein and energy-laden healthy fats. If you’re looking for a human comparison – or are considering an insect diet for yourself – 2.2 pounds of grasshoppers provides the same amount of protein as 10 hot dogs or six Big Macs (and minus the artery-clogging grease). In short, insects make a perfect food for birds coping with the stress of raising a family – and for the growing family members themselves.

(Just as an aside – hummingbirds have a similar flair for catching bugs on the fly. Though they’re known for sipping nectar, hummers catch their share of flies, mosquitoes and small moths during their summer stays here. If you’ve got hummingbirds near you and you see them darting from

a perch into midair and back again, they’re nabbing gnats and other bugs to up their nutrient intake.)

If you happen to find yourself in a particularly bug-rich area this weekend – and thankfully we have plenty right now, especially near water – take a look above and see if you notice any birds catching insects. You may find you have a hidden talent … for identifying cedar waxwings.

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