FREE Workshop: Preserving your Family recipes. When you dip your madeleine in your Proustian tea, make it more than a memory. This workshop, in partnership with Society life member the First Bank of Highland Park, will provide the tools to preserve your family’s culinary history whether the original format is digital, oral or on a file card! Limited seating, please reserve.
Nancy Webster began working with historical collections in Highland Park, Illinois in 2010 when she launched the community archives program with a grant from the National Archives’National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). Since beginning the community archives program in collaboration with the NHPRC, she has written and managed $50,000.00 in local and Illinois state grants for digitization and other history and culture projects. She teaches at Dominican University as an adjunct instructor, currently teaching the Advanced Archives seminar. Previously, she worked at the Bentley Library, the Chicago History Museum and Molex Connector Corporation. She received her MILS and BA from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Prior to her 30 year career as an archivist Webster worked as a translator, political science researcher, au pair, waitperson, and bartender.
Catherine Lambrecht has been involved with Culinary Historians since 1995 and has hosted programs as Chicago Foodways Roundtable since 2005. At the encouragement of Nancy Webster, she began considering Highland Park’s Community Cookbooks. The great stimulator was a friend inquiring if her grandmother contributed recipes to a 1925 Highland Park Woman’s Club cookbook. Five recipes from her grandmother were found and later a 1948 cookbook had several from this woman’s mother. Highland Park’s community collection has grown to about 30 titles with more to come. This summer on the lawn of the Stupey Cabin (1847) will be, Finding Family, Friends and Lost Recipes: Community Cookbooks.
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Saturday, June 21, 2025
Highland Park Central Station to
west of the station and one block north to:
First Bank of Highland Park
1835 1st St, Highland Park, IL 60035
10 AM until Noon
Optional though just as important is sharing ideas over lunch.
across the street and half-block north is:
Once Upon a Bagel
1888 1st St, Highland Park, IL 60035
Saturday Metra North
Schedule North from Ogilvy Transportation Center
803 Train leaving Ogilvy 8:35 am arriving Highland Park at 9:29 AM
Schedule South from Highland Park to Ogilvy Transportation Center
816 Train leaving Highland Park 12:34 PM arriving Ogilvy at 1:30 PM
818 Train leaving Highland Park 2:34 PM arriving Ogilvy at 3:30 PM
820 Train leaving Highland Park 4:34 PM arriving Ogilvy at 5:30 PM
If you have any questions,
please e-mail: Culinary.Historians@gmail.com
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