Presented by
LaManda Joy,
Founder of Peterson Gardens and author of Start A Community Garden
and
Emily Paster,
Founder of Chicago Swap and author of Food Swap
This program will feature two speakers, who each define an element of back-to-basics home-centric lifestyles. Continue reading
Hear the crack of gunfire and the boom of cannons at the Lake County Forest Preserves’ 25th annual Civil War Days. Visitors of all ages are invited to explore the military and civilian camps to learn about life in the 1860s. Continue reading
with Yvonne Maffei
Author and Publisher of MyHalalKitchen.com
The Qu’ran defines the moment of daybreak, when the faithful must begin to fast during Ramadan, as when the ‘white thread of dawn becomes distinct to you from the black thread.’ We will gather 90 minutes before daybreak to experience Suhoor, a meal taken before commencing fasting at daybreak and attending prayers. Continue reading
with ROBERT DIRKS
Emeritus Professor of Anthropology
Illinois State University
America’s Gilded Age, the last quarter of the nineteenth century, is renowned for the excesses of robber barons and tycoons. The lavishness of their tables impressed contemporaries and historians alike. Continue reading
“For many people Henry Ford’s 1913 Detroit assembly line is a symbol of technological triumph. This book shows that Chicago’s 1865 disassembly line was an earlier more complete wonder, rapidly transporting animals, keeping them healthy and watered, dividing them into a wide variety of products, communicating ownership and destination, and keeping meticulous accounts of all the processes. Continue reading