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The person guilty of creating this site

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Barrington Area Historical Society  Presents:

Preservation Workshops
Saturday, February 16, 2008 — 2:00 to 4:00 P.M
 

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I support Barack Obama for president

 

 
“All children should be brought up to express themselves in all the universal languages – the arts.  It is no harder to learn them all than to learn one.  The arts are play, and they play into each other.  They are lonely without the companionship of their fellows."
Marion Mahony Griffin - (Architect, Artist, Naturalist, Philosopher, Musician, et al.)
from "The Magic of America"
 
"If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. "
Rachel Carson
 
 
Historic Preservation
Preserving and Protecting our Inherited Natural Environment
Creating and Maintaining an Aesthetic and High Quality Built Environment
Helping to Preserve our World's Natural Resources for Future Generations
High Quality Workmanship

 

Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
Till it’s gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi
 
 
What's New?  Last site update, 02/01/08

Browse my updated links page - great people, highly recommended!

River Forest Condo for Sale

Preservationist or Pest for Short
Marty Hackl, self-appointed protector of lesser Prairie School lights,
is about to lose his latest fight. But there's always another one
coming.
(Article appearing in the Reader, June 2005) 

The Re-Building Newsletter  - Our free on-line Preservation Newsletter

Newsletter 27 - April, 2006  A Historic Blunder in Oak Park

Newsletter # 28: Renovation on the Cheap: Is the restoration of the River Forest Women's Club being bungled?
Newsletter # 29:  Two More Van Bergen Structures Await Demolition
Newsletter # 30:  Confirmation:  Another John Van Bergen Designed House in Highland Park
John Van Bergen and the Oak Park Shelter Houses (22MB - if you have dial up, forget it!)
(If you don't already have PowerPoint, you can download the viewer here for free.)
Marie's New Kitchen (and Bath) blog Nov '05 to May-06
See past newsletters here

  

 

 
Some of my favorite and fun web sites
http://www.whitehousetapes.org/
notmensa
Citizen's Self Arrest Form
Band Automatic Name Generator
MetaSpy
Marry and Ugly Millionaire Dating Service 
I.N.C.H. -- Institute For Naming Children Humanely  
Billionaires for Bush 

Other Stuff

Democracy Now
Truthout.org
Inequality.org
Iraq Veterans Against the War
 
The Historical Society of Oak Park and River Forest presents:
The Manley Stacey Civil War letters
 

Marty's blog

 

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