Glencoe Historical Society
at the
Eklund History Center & Garden

The cool breezes, the pictures on the Village’s banners and the calendar all point to the coming of major holidays—Christmas and Hanukkah. The holiday season is a perfect time to visit the Glencoe Historical Society’s Eklund Center and find books on Glencoe history that are the perfect gift for anyone on your list.

The Eklund History Center will be open Sundays, Nov. 14 and 28 (Thanksgiving weekend) and offering a wide variety of books for all ages and interests:

• Images of America: Glencoe, Illinois, a book filled with pictures of Glencoe from the 1860s through the 1990s;
• Glencoe: Queen of Suburbs, the story of the Village told in personal memoirs from the 1920s through the 1980s;
• Three Historic Bike Hikes for bicyclists;
• Glencoe’s Chicago and North Western Railroad Station, 1891-1991 for architectural buffs interested in the story of the Glencoe Railroad Depot including its landmark-status architecture; and
• What’s So Great About Glencoe? is a coloring book that includes history and architecture in a fun format for children from 3rd grade and up.

The Eklund Center sparkles with its new 1940’s: Years of Transition exhibit, featuring both the Homefront aspect of life in the early to mid-1940s, and the beginning of the modern times with photographs, radios, books and fashions that today don’t seem so far away. View the two “rooms” that the Society has assembled, a kitchen with the results of canning and a table set with Fiestaware, and Dad’s chair in the living room, with newspapers, sheet music and desk accessories of the era. One new addition to the exhibit is the recent donation of a Glencoe map for a civil defense captain. The 1940s brings up many images: saving fats, scrap and paper; ration stamps; Spam and Glen Miller. Join us to see this exhibit that presents a taste of both ends of the decade.

Sunday Nov. 14 will be the last time to visit the Eklund Center exhibit on political buttons. The Society’s collection, augmented by donations from longtime supports John Carothers, Alice Glicksberg, and John Houde, will be retired, stored until the next election cycle. With buttons from as far back to 1896 through today, political buttons are an excellent way to learn about American history.

The Eklund Center is open from 2–4 p.m. the second and fourth Sundays of the months of September through June, 2005.

For further information or to make a special appointment to see the collections or do research, call 847.835.0040 and leave a message on the machine or click on our website, www.GlencoeHistoricalSociety.org.