Santa Claus arrives in 2015. Copyright Bob Leavitt. Each year Libertyville residents gather in Cook Park for the holiday tree lighting the Friday night after Thanksgiving. Santa’s arrival by fire truck is the highlight of the evening for children of all ages. But in the late 1940s Santa arrived by another mode of transportation –…
It’s hard to imagine the Christmas season without Scrooge, Tiny Tim and the ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and Future. My introduction to A Christmas Carol was when my Dad read it to me as a child and I’ve been a huge fan of it in all its iterations ever since. In the prologue of…
Given that the holidays are drawing near, I thought I would try and find a more festive topic than bank robbing for my last post of 2016. At first I tried to see if there were any non-denominational winter celebrations in Libertyville history, and while Wine about Winter does sound fun (February 18th for anyone who…
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