Margery Frisbie
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The battle for high school education in Arlington Hts.Oct 29, 2013 1:30 pm - One hundred years ago this year, when Ill. Gov. Edward Dunne signed the Presidential and Municipal Suffrage Act giving women the right to vote in those elections, Illino...
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Husband’s bike ride to train became a national storySep 24, 2013 1:00 pm - Bikes, once the province of young teens, have gone mainstream. More and more streets have bike lanes to control their flow. Chicago has bought 750 bikes for a Divvy Ren...
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Farm animals an issue in Arlington Hts. since the 1870sAug 15, 2013 11:02 am - Our town has wrestled with the issue of farm animals within the village limits longer than Captain Ahab wrestled with Moby Dick. In early August, the village board unani...
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Knowing your roots, strengthens family, town tiesJul 30, 2013 1:02 pm - Interesting new research suggests that nothing bonds a family more powerfully than shared family history. When kids say to their parents, “Tell me a story about when you...
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New Arlington teen center a far cry from living room libraryMay 14, 2013 12:43 pm - Maybe it is that, in a way, I am always writing this column in the back of my head, but I do find myself looking at our town as it is now and thinking about how it was “...
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Vacant Arlington Hts. lots were kids’ playgroundsApr 23, 2013 12:23 pm - Old friends rang our doorbell this week to bring us a new book of poems by their friend John McNamee. Because I was thinking of spring and what kids did 100 years ago, I...
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Chickens, now banned, once common in Arlington Hts.Mar 13, 2013 10:43 am - In the interest of full disclosure, I hereby describe the breakfast I ate off my hand-painted Bedford stoneware plate from England Sunday morning. It was beautiful, like...
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Wintertime truth and fiction in old Arlington Hts.Dec 20, 2012 2:00 pm - I can't ride around town for an hour without coming upon some building or object that reminds me of a story someone told me of Arlington history. With winter coming, I'm...
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The story of those who tell tales of Arlington Hts.Nov 27, 2012 2:48 pm - Over the years that I’ve based this column on taped oral history interviews. I’ve observed that there are two kinds of interviewees. Some people — I think of Ronald Bra...
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Circuit riders part of Arlington Hts. DNASep 25, 2012 1:00 pm - Last month, I advanced the fanciful notion that villages, like the people who live in them, have strands of DNA that determine their character. So during the past weeks ...