When Kathy Deveny saw a lightly clothed family in a Starbucks in the dead of winter, she immediately remarked to her kids: “I bet that family would really like some of your sweatshirts and sweaters that you don’t wear anymore.” She talked to the mother, got their address and took her kids home to start […]
You’d think Mary McLaughlin studied art for years at the best schools before creating hand-painted official gifts of enamels, chinaware, jewelry and gift boxes for the likes of last 2 U.S. presidents and their wives, the State Department, governors, mayors, senators, Wellesley College and the Lyric Opera. But you’d be wrong. McLaughlin is largely self-taught […]
Fuses, switches, doorbells and various knobs make the walls of the Rory Deutsche Reading Room at Highland Park’s Indian Trail School look like a spaceship. Faux windows give kids a view of galaxies and planets. Little did interior designer Gabrielle Rousso know when she planned the room as a pro bono project almost 10 years […]
“I feel like a farmer,” Kathryn Guylay says. It’s not a comment you hear from most 39-year-old Winnetka moms, but you start to understand when you see the two hens in her backyard, which provide her family with two fresh eggs a day. The hens live in a coop next to her extensive garden, which […]
North Shore resident Barbara Wick has made a career out of giving back through board service. Mother of 3 and grandmother of 5, Wick professes to love it, and we’re compelled to believe her. In total she has served on more than 20 volunteer boards. More inspiring, she has done so while battling ovarian cancer. […]
When the skies darkened and heavy rains smashed the North Shore last summer, Dave and Denise Zier decided to turn a problem into a party. Once Zier’s Prime Meats and Poultry in Wilmette lost power, the co-owners set up their pig roaster on the sidewalk, grilled some sausages and handed them out to passers-by. […]
Editor’s note: While this article is a little longer than our usual pieces, we encourage you to stick with it until the end. It is written from the heart, and the message is truly special. I can’t remember the moment my parents told my brother and me that our new baby was not going to […]
Evanston’s Tucker Gallery is brimming with surprises. Owner Catherine Eberle’s artistic eye is wide-ranging: glasswork from North Carolina, paintings from as far as Spain and now a Local Artists Showcase. Her dedication to featuring art that spans location and genre does a great service to the North Shore community, and it has helped Tucker Gallery […]
“Children are born artists,” declares Jeannie Richardson. Free from the crippling inhibitions and self-doubt that adults face, they can express themselves artistically with blithe abandon. Now, thanks to Richardson’s online art and photography service, Me Art, adults can reclaim their own inner-Picassos. The concept is simple: Send Richardson your most cherished pictures (either electronically or […]
Local author Reverend John Lionberger follows in the tradition of naturalists Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, returning to nature to reconnect with the spiritual world. Nominated numerous times as a Local Treasure for his many contributions to the local community as both a man of faith and a wilderness guide, Lionberger was inspired […]
