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Lilac season: A delightful few weeks of garden splendor
Evanston RoundTable, May 24, 2023 Bitter cold winters seem to be shrinking, getting warmer and less burdened with snow, dreary as ever but a pale reflection of the fierce winters
Vanishing winter
Evanston RoundTable, May 11, 2023 The season between fall and spring, formerly known as winter, is due for a reassessment. That’s because there hardly is a winter anymore. We need
Remembering Evanston’s ‘splendid’ Nazi resister
Evanston RoundTable, April 25,2023 After the second world war, Traute Lafrenz Page didn’t talk much about her heroic resistance to the Nazi regime in her native Germany. Her four children
The key to a healthier, happier life
Evanston RoundTable, April 7, 2023 One of the most thorough studies of human development ever conducted, based on an 85-year multi-generational study of thousands of Americans of all ages and
In the stands and in life, the Liss family shows up for Hank
Evanston RoundTable, March 25, 2023 When I asked Evanston Township High School senior Hank Liss to pose for a photo on the baseball diamond, the ace pitcher cradled his glove
Evanston’s sweet spot
Evanston RoundTable, March 7, 2023 Jean Kroll comes from a long line of entrepreneurs. Her great-grandfather on her mother’s side owned and operated movie theaters in central Wisconsin, as did
The bully in the bird feeder
Evanston RoundTable, Feb. 22, 2023 A year or two ago we bought a clear plastic bird feeder and attached it outside on our family room window. The idea was to
The happiest place on earth
Evanston RoundTable, Feb. 2, 2023 There are lots of claimants to the title. Of course, it has been said of Disneyland so often I’m surprised they haven’t copyrighted the phrase.
The Write Stuff
Evanston RoundTable, Jan. 18, 2023 Along with the winter solstice come annual new year resolutions, a tradition said to be thousands of years old. The most popular resolutions are exercise