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glencoeanchor.com life & arts<br />
the glencoe anchor | August 17, 2017 | 21<br />
WWI history readied at Glencoe Historical Society<br />
Staff works on<br />
exhibit for a year,<br />
debuts it Sept. 16<br />
Ben Weinstein<br />
Editorial Intern<br />
In the spring of 1917,<br />
President Woodrow Wilson<br />
and the United States<br />
entered World War I.<br />
Americans from coast to<br />
coast heard the call to action<br />
and did their part in<br />
the war efforts.<br />
Glencoe, at the time a<br />
community of only 2,500,<br />
was no different.<br />
The Glencoe Historical<br />
Society is now opening<br />
their most ambitious exhibition<br />
to date, “Glencoe<br />
and The Great War,” to<br />
highlight the village’s involvement<br />
in the war.<br />
“What it aims to do is<br />
give an overview of what<br />
Glencoe did to support the<br />
war effort and the troops,”<br />
GHS Vice-President Karen<br />
Ettelson said.<br />
The exhibit opens on<br />
Peter Van Vechten (left) and Edward Olinger prepare<br />
one of the exhibition’s many touchscreen monitors<br />
at the Glencoe Historical Society. Photos by Ben<br />
Weinstein/22nd Century Media<br />
Sept. 16 at the Glencoe<br />
Historical Society Annual<br />
Gala. Proceeds raised at<br />
the event help fund the activities<br />
of the GHS.<br />
Despite Glencoe’s small<br />
size at the time, the town’s<br />
residents provided significant<br />
help in several ways.<br />
Two hundred and fiftythree<br />
men volunteered, got<br />
drafted or were enlisted to<br />
serve, and though a little<br />
less than half ended up going<br />
overseas, many more<br />
were preparing to had the<br />
war not ended. Men that<br />
weren’t enlisted formed<br />
a reserve militia. Women<br />
worked tirelessly for the<br />
Red Cross Workshop, and<br />
children contributed by<br />
planting gardens and selling<br />
thrift stamps.<br />
“Just about every man,<br />
woman and child was involved<br />
somehow,” Ettelson<br />
said.<br />
GHS aims to honor<br />
Glencoe’s contributions<br />
to the war with the largest<br />
and most innovative<br />
exhibition they’ve put together.<br />
This is immediately<br />
evident by the fact that,<br />
for the first time ever, the<br />
exhibit is spread across the<br />
entire museum campus.<br />
“Glencoe and The Great<br />
War” is divided primarily<br />
between the front building,<br />
375 Park Ave., and the back<br />
building. The front building<br />
focuses on war activities<br />
in Glencoe, including<br />
displays about The Glencoe<br />
War Emergency Union,<br />
cartoonist and Glencoe resident<br />
Frank King, the village’s<br />
historic train station<br />
and more.<br />
The back building explores<br />
the Glencoe men who<br />
served overseas. In addition<br />
to checking out a model<br />
Sopwith Camel plane, visitors<br />
can learn about the five<br />
Glencoe soldiers who lost<br />
their lives overseas, observe<br />
a smaller scale recreation<br />
of a war ambulance and get<br />
to know Illinois National<br />
Guard General Abel Davis.<br />
The exhibition features a<br />
model war ambulance, of<br />
which Glencoe sponsored<br />
two.<br />
Both buildings, for the first<br />
time in GHS history, are<br />
lined with interactive touchscreen<br />
monitors.<br />
“It’s relying on the technology<br />
of today to tell the<br />
story of 100 years ago,”<br />
GHS President Peter Van<br />
Vechten said.<br />
“We will have a total of<br />
seven touchscreens and<br />
six looping monitors,” Ettelson<br />
added. “Prior to this<br />
time, we had one.”<br />
Despite pursuing such<br />
an adventurous project,<br />
the historical society is still<br />
operated on a volunteeronly<br />
basis. All of the work<br />
that has gone into creating<br />
“Glencoe and The Great<br />
War” has been undertaken<br />
by passionate, unpaid community<br />
members.<br />
“We did a lot of research,”<br />
Ettelson said.<br />
“We’ve been working on it<br />
for over a year probably.”<br />
This research has uncovered<br />
lots of information<br />
about Glencoe’s war efforts<br />
previously unavailable.<br />
“We’re quite proud of<br />
some of the things we have<br />
rediscovered, and we look<br />
forward to sharing it all<br />
with the community,” Van<br />
Vechten said.<br />
In looking back to Glencoe’s<br />
past, the Glencoe<br />
Historical Society has succeeded<br />
in putting together<br />
one of the most forwardthinking<br />
exhibitions in<br />
their existence. The Great<br />
War might have happened<br />
one century ago, but Glencoe’s<br />
participation in it has<br />
never felt so alive.<br />
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how we are going to do it,”<br />
Pollak said.<br />
The plants are featured<br />
in several areas of<br />
the larger CBG, including<br />
the Visitor Center,<br />
which has 20-foot-high<br />
coconut palms and modern<br />
containers or colored<br />
foliage. The Brazil plants<br />
then seep into the Crescent<br />
Garden, where there<br />
is bromeliad, Bismarck<br />
palms and more colorful<br />
foliage.<br />
Bromeliad continues<br />
to be featured in 11-foot<br />
towers in the Heritage<br />
Garden. There are also<br />
showy bromeliads in reds<br />
and burgundys surrounded<br />
by giant planters brimming<br />
with tropical plants.<br />
The secret here, Pollak<br />
said, in that the planters<br />
are actually fire pits<br />
turned containers.<br />
“We really wanted that<br />
wow factor in the Heritage<br />
Garden,” Bunting<br />
said.<br />
Other Brazil plants, like<br />
elephant ears and 12-foot<br />
tall red Abyssinian banana<br />
plants, are featured in the<br />
peaceful circle garden and<br />
the greenhouses.<br />
With a wet summer,<br />
most of the Brazilian<br />
plants are far exceeding<br />
what Bunting and Pollak<br />
planned for.<br />
“There is so much<br />
growth and color,” Bunting<br />
said. “Those few certain<br />
plants that aren’t doing<br />
well is because there<br />
was actually too much<br />
rainfall for them, but<br />
that’s nature.”<br />
To be fully immersed in<br />
the Brazil culture within<br />
the garden, there are Music<br />
Nights from 6-8 p.m.<br />
at the Esplanade or Mc-<br />
Ginley Pavilion. The next<br />
and last event of the season<br />
occurs Thursday, Aug.<br />
17, when Chicago Samba<br />
performs.<br />
Previous music night<br />
performers included: Planeta<br />
Azul, Carpacho Super<br />
Combo, Rio Bamba,<br />
Dill Costa Quartet and<br />
Luciano Antonio Quartet.<br />
Have a taste of the<br />
country, as well, at a<br />
Garden Chef Series from<br />
1:30-2:30 p.m. at the Regenstein<br />
Fruit and Vegetable<br />
Garden. The garden<br />
hosts Tony Castillo from<br />
Longitud315, of Highland<br />
Park, on Sept. 10.<br />
To learn more, there are<br />
two exhibitions with rich<br />
history on site, including<br />
the “Roberto Burle Marx”<br />
exhibit in the Joutras Gallery<br />
with original paintings,<br />
landscape plans and<br />
other work by Burle Marx;<br />
and the Lenhardt Library’s<br />
“Flora Brasil” exhibit.<br />
Moving into the fall<br />
now, Bunting and Pollak<br />
will be adding more<br />
plants and removing the<br />
ones that only grow in the<br />
warmer climates. The removed<br />
plantings will be<br />
kept in the greenhouses<br />
or given to other Chicagoland<br />
conservatories.<br />
Chicago Botanic Garden<br />
is open from 7 a.m.-9<br />
p.m. daily at 1000 Lake<br />
Cook Road, Glencoe.<br />
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