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Sherry Thomas

COMMUNITY CHAMPION

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One of Beth Clemmensen’s earliest memories of Lake Forest is visiting from the western suburbs. “I would drive up with my mom to shop at Market Square,” says Clemmensen, a former Kraft marketing executive who is currently revamping the marketing curriculum as a professor at Lake Forest College. “We’d go to the Talbots store and

PLUCK OF THE IRISH

82 Tlw Forest & Bluff Katie Fitzpatrick By Tom Bachtell With Revised Irish Dance Dresses

‘Tis the land of scholars and saints, poets and rebels. And yet one of the mysteries of Ireland is how many find a sense of home in its storied culture and history, even if they have no ancestral connection at all. It’s a sort of magic, you might say. That’s how Katie Fitzpatrick describes this

CARPE DIEM

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Brooke Tagliaferro of Lake Forest truly understands the art of living in the moment. It’s a life skill she learned from her late grandmother, Shirley Leifer, who continues to inspire her as a wife, mother, and volunteer. “When I was about 10 years old, my grandmother picked me up to take me for tea,” explains

A WELL-BUILT LIFE

70 The Last Word Art Miller By Tom Bachtell Final

Imagine white lines on blue paper—a structural rendering of a life to be influenced by its uncanny, yet serendipitous, exposure to work by some of the world’s greatest architects. Thus was the blueprint that renowned local historic preservation expert and author Arthur H. Miller was destined to follow from childhood in Kalamazoo, Michigan— growing up

ALL THAT JAZZ

50 Erina Ueda. Photo By Todd Rosenberg Photography

THE YEAR IS 1974. Happy Days makes its debut on ABC. Watergate is erupting in Washington, D.C. And Barbara Streisand’s “The Way We Were” is burning up the airwaves. Meanwhile on the North Shore, Lake Forest residents are celebrating an exciting new place for the community to connect and in Evanston, a burgeoning American jazz

RETURN TO SENDER

70 The Last Word Romayne Kazmer By Tom Bachtell

The first letter was written on stationery from the Holland-America Line, envelope emblazoned in royal blue—VIA AIR MAIL. It was a Tuesday—September 15, 1959, to be exact—and a 20-year-old Romayne Troost (a sophomore at University of Colorado) was letting her parents (Peter and Romaine) know she made it aboard with all her belongings as she

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