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"A two-hour tour ..."
Two pontoon boats full of history buffs left Famous Freddie's Roadhouse at 1 p.m. Sept. 10 for a two-hour, sun-bathed trip – from the Manning Hotel where the remnants of George "Bugs" Moran's gang were killed following the St. Valentine's Massacre in Chicago, to estates of the rich and famous. The latter included the George Sayer/Billy Skidmore mansion and boathouse.
Landmark status to the William H. Coventry House and Barn
Kurt Pearson, McHenry resident and Crystal Lake native, began researching Swedenberg about 5 years ago....
Woodstock High School graduate earns scholarship
Sophia Rogers is the winner of this year's Nancy Fike Scholarship. She plans to study political science and Spanish at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn.
Named in honor of the Society's former administrator, the Society awards the $1,000 Fike scholarship to a graduating senior from a McHenry County high school who plans to study education, history, or the social sciences.
This merit-based scholarship will be given in the winning student’s name to his or her college /university.
Banking on Clams
It is 1920 and the United States Bankruptcy Court has called a meeting of creditors for the Fox River Pearl Fisheries in McHenry – which during the previous month had involuntarily filed for bankruptcy with Northern District of Illinois’ Eastern Division in Chicago.
Creditors range from John P. Weber, who sunk more than $10,000 into the venture, to lumber and dredging companies, to Luther P. Bostwisk – who it is said devised the “secret formula” for growing pearls in clams. But there also are scores of farmers also affected.
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