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#HASHTAG: ALEXANDRA (“ALEX”) LYON SINGER

With years of experience in the hospitality industry and two different culinary degrees, it’s no wonder that ALEXANDRA (“ALEX”) LYON SINGER is the mastermind behind the Lyon Family Foundation’s signature fall fundraising event—The Hoosier Ball. Curating the guest experience through food and entertainment is always top of mind as Singer concepts and designs the annual

RETURN TO SENDER

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

O’ER THE PEN

We asked Lake Bluff author/speaker/possibility thinker Kathryn Haydon—who grew up in Wilmette and Wheaton and majored in Spanish and Latin American Literature at Northwestern University—to look back at 2023 with one eye and look ahead to 2024 with the other. We then let her focus, with both eyes, on things in the present. Haydon’s latest

THE BUZZ: JANUARY 2024

MOUNTAINFILM ON TOUR The perennially-sold-out Mountainfilm on Tour visits Lake Forest on January 26 and 27 at the John & Nancy Hughes Theater at Gorton Center. Join friends and neighbors for two days of inspiring films, handpicked from the Mountainfilm festival in Telluride, Colorado. Among other works, this year’s lineup includes: WALKING ON CLOUDSWalking on

BRIGGS’-EYE VIEW

Bedtime stories opened Brian Briggs’ young eyes to the world of visual storytelling and often enlarged them to orbs of wide-eyed wonderment, ruining the primary objective of the nighttime custom—sleep inducement. His late mother, Jane Davidson, an artist of impressionism, would read books by illustrator/ painter/author Howard Pyle and others to Brian at their home

#HASHTAG: BROOKE MILTON

For BROOKE MILTON, the proverbial notion that “everything has a place” has been a lifelong belief. In fact, Milton jokes that she could have started an organizing business when she was 4 years old. Now, she’s trying to declutter the world one closet at a time. Known around the North Shore as The Duchess of

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