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Arlington Heights writer remembers when everything was handmade

By Margery Frisbie
Jun 23, 2016 8:00 AM - A splashy headline in the food section of The New York Times recently suggested that handmade pasta is the rage. As my mother-in-law, who was born about the time of the first handmade pasta "rage," would have said, "What goes around comes around. Handmade pasta is just better."
How Northwest Highway came into being

By Margery Frisbie
May 26, 2016 6:00 AM - I am so old that I remember the man who thought up Northwest Highway. When we moved into our house on Dunton, Al Volz lived on our corner. He was famous for being almost 100 years old, for walking to town every day to talk with his buddies, for being mayor, a state legislator and for thinking up the highway.
History of the house next door in Arlington Heights has much to tell

By Margery Frisbie
Apr 14, 2016 6:00 AM - If the British can trace their heritage through their homes, as in Downton Abbey, why can't we in Arlington Heights do the same? Arlington Heights history columnist Margery Frisbie gives it a try.
How Arlington Hts.' Heine Kennicott once upon a time built a village

By Margery Frisbie
Mar 24, 2016 6:00 AM - A flicker of mystery adds lift to any enterprise, even a suburban block. And the house across the street has harbored a mysterious attraction for me from the day we moved into our home on Dunton Avenue in Arlington Heights. There were so many trees. Little did I know there had been a hidden village among those trees.
Arlington Heights not above it all; sloughs, water problems abound

By Margery Frisbie
Feb 16, 2016 2:21 PM - Arlington Heights has made heroic strides to control flooding, but the fact is that we are a community built in a swamp, just as Chicago is. Listen to old-timers and you hear stories of a bridge on Dunton Avenue and another on Northwest Highway east of downtown from which boys used to fish.
When Arlington Heights butcher delivered on Saturday night

By Margery Frisbie
Jan 19, 2016 3:55 PM - Plan for Arlington Heights Historical Museum to sell vintage soda reminds Arlington Heights history columnist Marjorie Frisbie of the days when one could call a butcher on Saturday night to bring chicken for Sunday dinner by on his way home.
Luther Village roots date to 1892 and began with dimes

By Margery Frisbie
Dec 15, 2015 3:05 PM - When the man across the street from Arlington Heights history columnist Margery Frisbie moved to Luther Village after 86 years on Dunton Avenue, it reminded Frisbie of the colorful origins of the retirement complex.
Ecumenism among Arlington Heights churches

By Margery Frisbie
Nov 19, 2015 4:00 AM - It is 49 years since members of churches in Arlington Heights organized our town's first interfaith service. They variously described their efforts as "breaking down the barriers between people of different faiths" and "building bridges of understanding and love among us." Before that, there were grudges.
Recalling school days at St. Peter's

By Margery Frisbie
Oct 20, 2015 12:48 PM - Despite the strict discipline, Carl Weinrich's fealty to -- and fondness for -- St. Peter's Lutheran School spills out of the text he wrote about his school days, "Growing Up Physically and Spiritually at St. Peter Church and School."
Hendriksens played key role in evolution of Arlington Hts.

By Margery Frisbie
Sep 15, 2015 3:16 PM - In 1945, a couple came to town who would help create Arlington Heights as we know it today. Florence and Clarence Hendriksen were young, ambitious and energetic. Clarence was recently mustered out of the army, where he had served as an interpreter during World War II.

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