Bill McLean

Winnetka’s mad-about-golf Banas family— parents Reb and Megan and kids Madison, Reb Jr., Blake, and Ryan—vacationed in Colorado seven years ago while their golf clubs stayed home. That’s akin to passionate painters arriving at a studio without brushes. Or a group of serious scuba divers entering water without oxygen tanks. “We ended up playing golf,”

Winnetkan Charlotte Dellin devoured a book about all of the English monarchs last year. It took the recent New Trier Township High School graduate, who was born in London, an entire season to finish it. “That was my fall read,” Dellin says. “I’m a history buff and a big reader.” And, as of June 1,

Beth Boyd’s wheels—either the ones on her sleek velobike or the figurative ones in her mind—are always turning. In addition to being the founder and principal designer of Wiley Designs LLC in Highland Park and serving the final year of a three-year term as president of the board of trustees of the Lake Forest-based artists’

No wonder poet/essayist Laura Joyce- Hubbard, who flew unarmed U.S. Air Force C-130s carrying relief cargo during the Bosnia War in the mid-1990s, is the City of Highland Park’s first Poet Laureate. Even snippets of passages in her essays could pass for stirring stanzas. To wit: “Rich jade mountains unrolled beneath our flight path,” she