March Newsletter 2024
“Mad as a March Hare” In past issues of your Newsletter, we have revealed some of the endeavors of local parties that may have left Hawthornians scratching their heads in disbelief: sculptor Felix Peano’s monumental masterpiece, “the Door of Life,” whose patroness (it has been said) withdrew her commission for the work because she […]
September Newsletter 2023
HAWTHORNE HISTORICAL SOCIETY PRESERVATION. COLLECTION. RESEARCH. INTERPRETATION. We will have to remember, too, all the things that have to be done to make the holidays right and start the work to accomplish that goal. Your schedule will be growing while your time until the end of the year will be shrinking. But, don’t let it […]
June Newsletter 2023
HAWTHORNE HISTORICAL SOCIETY PRESERVATION. COLLECTION. RESEARCH. INTERPRETATION. Summer changes the whole picture. It alters every human activity to fit its contours: what we wear, what we eat, what we do, where we go. Summer arrives when the solstice wraps the risen sun around the Northern Hemisphere in the longest stretch of daylight – […]