Perkins Hall Players present "Path to Lakemoor – The Dissolution of Lilly Lake." Perkins Hall is located at the corner of Franklinville and Garden Valley Roads southwest of Woodstock. Come and join in the civil melodrama. Period clothing encouraged. Free admission. Light refreshments. Information: 815-923-2267.

It is September 1941 and emotions are running high inside Lilly Lake. Questions that surrounded the village’s incorporation in 1938 – including the validity of votes and its boundaries – remain. There have been allegations of assault and political interference, contempt of court and fraud. It has led to what the press described as “riotous behavior.”

In fact, the rift is so bad that many of those who backed formation of the village just a few years before now are calling for its end.

On this night we are gathered at the nearby McHenry Town Hall (actually Perkins Hall – i.e. the old Seneca Towship Hall), where McHenry Township Supervisor Math N. Schmitt (narrator Don Perkins) has agreed to host a public meeting in an effort to stop the feuding and rancor.

June 20, 2012

Perkins Hall Players present “Stay Off My Property! McCullom Lake, 1940.” at Perkins Hall, southwest corner of Garden Valley and Franklinville Roads, southwest of Woodstock. Come and join in the civil melodrama. Period clothing encouraged. Free admission. Light refreshments.