Margery Frisbie
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When truck farming was ascendant in Arlington Hts.Aug 13, 2015 6:00 am - At Book Club a woman revealed, wonderingly, that the lot where her house stands was once an orchard. What she apparently found amazing was an old story to women in the g...
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Meyer's Pond drew excursion trains to Arlington Hts.Jul 16, 2015 8:00 am - When I see Recreation Park transformed into the frenzy of Frontier Days every July, I think how lucky the sponsors are that Arlington Heights has got its water problem u...
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Houses are bigger, people are the sameJun 16, 2015 12:58 pm - In 1954, we were house-hunting. I was pregnant with our fourth child in a one-bedroom apartment in Chicago. My husband was a reporter at the Chicago Daily News. The Chic...
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Klehm family leaves tree legacy in Arlington Hts.May 26, 2015 2:40 pm - Skimming along Arlington streets in May, I am always reminded of A.E. Housman's evocative lines from "A Shropshire Lad:" "Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung wit...
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Schooling ended young 100 years ago in Arlington Hts.May 01, 2015 8:46 am - Here would have been a possible scenario for your day if you were married 100 years ago in 1915, as Ella Kastning was. You woke at 5 a.m., washed and dressed yourself, w...
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Local rabbi participated in Selma marchFeb 19, 2015 12:00 am - With all the interest in the current movie about the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, I've been thinking about what was going on in Arlington ...
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Frisbie: Sleigh rides a highlight of winter in early Arlington Hts.Dec 16, 2014 2:31 pm - He's 33 now, so it must have been about 30 years ago that we took our first grandchild to the first, or close to it, of the remarkable carriage rides launched by Histori...
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Reminiscing about when Harry's of Arlington was a general storeNov 18, 2014 1:53 pm - When I read in the Nov. 4 Daily Herald that Harry's of Arlington had new owners with plans for its future, I was much relieved to learn that the joy and camaraderie that...
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Red light pause leads to thoughts of pioneer William DuntonOct 21, 2014 4:01 pm - Waiting for the light to change at Northwest Highway and Arlington Heights Road recently, I was bemused, making conversation with William Dunton who stands at that corne...
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Dimes once went a long way in Arlington HeightsSep 16, 2014 1:38 pm - Headline in the Sept. 10 New York Times: "For the New York Condo Owner with Everything, a Million-Dollar Parking Spot." That's right. An underground garage that costs fo...