Along with her spiritual inner beauty, Lucretia Mott was a comely woman and mother of six children with her husband of 56 years, James Mott. Lucretia Coffin was born January 3, 1793 in Nantucket, Mass. to Thomas and Anna Folger Coffin. She had one older sister, Martha. Lucretia was a
Our accidental president, Donald Trump, just cannot do enough nice things for his best buddy, Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. After transferring the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, he recognizes the Golan Heights as “Israeli territory,” territory which the Israelis “liberated” from Syria during the Six Days War in 1967. This
Linda Callaghan, left, president of the Aurora Sunrise Rotary Club, welcomes Brian Failing, executive director of the Aurora Regional Fire Museum, who gave a report on the state of the museum to the Rotary Club at Mother’s Pancake House in Aurora. Failing has been executive director for three years. Visits
By Miriam Meza – The Aurora Public Library (APL) will be host to Dr. Antonio Delgado for a presentation entitled “Mexican Boxcar Communities of the Midwest.” The presentation will be from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 25 at the Santori Library, 101 S. River Street, Aurora. Dr. Delgado
April 11 Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France and one of the greatest military leaders in history, abdicates the throne, and, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba. – 1814. April 12 The bloodiest four years in American history begin when Confederate shore batteries, under
Five crosses from the memorial at Henry Pratt on Highland Avenue in Aurora, carried by five individuals, prepare to be moved to the Aurora Historical Society’s David Pierce Center Sunday on Downer Place in Aurora. A ceremony was held Sunday at the Pierce Center. The crosses and memorial memorabilia were
To this day, the memories linger and are oh so sweet! I have no photographs of those times, so the memories are all in my heart. When family visited Uncle Emmett in Chicago, the Riverview Amusement Park was a must visit. Uncle Emmett and I were buddies riding on the
Bibi Belford, author of Crossing the Line, shares excerpts of her book Tuesday at the Kiwanis Club of Aurora meeting at the Prisco Center. The book is an award-winning middle grade novel inspired by the true events leading up to the 1919 Chicago race riots. The book includes a story
Marilyn Katz of Aurora shows a map of Israel during a presentation for the Aurora Noon Lions Club Monday at Luigi’s Pizza in Aurora. Katz, a member of Aurora’s Temple B’nai Israel, returned from a trip to Israel recently and had lived in Israel for eight years while she earned
April 4 Only 31 days after assuming office, William Henry Harrison, the ninth president of the United States, dies of pneumonia at the White House. – 1841. Just after 6 p.m. April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room
By Tim Norris – After 175 years, Spring Bluff Farm is still in the hands of the Norris family. Spring Bluff Farm, purchased by Matthew Norris in 1844, is in Blackberry Township on Norris Road in Kane County. Its name is a reference to the gravel kames left by glaciers
The white wooden crosses which commemorate the five victims of the February 15 shooting at the Henry Pratt Company warehouse in Aurora, will be solemnly transferred to the Aurora Historical Society (AHS) Sunday, March 31 at 3 p.m. at the Pierce Art and History Center, 20 E. Downer Place, Aurora.
Domingo Ghirardelli was born in 1817 and grew up in Rapallo, Italy. His father imported exotic foods and spices and the home had daily conversations of far-off places such as Ceylon, Sumatra, and Peru. Domingo thought the world was full of exciting opportunities for those with imagination and courage to
Sid Robinson, the eighth owner of the well-known Ford House in Aurora, shares history of his home on Edgelawn Drive Tuesday at the Kiwanis Club of Aurora meeting at the Prisco Center. Robinson purchased the house, known as Aurora’s other roundhouse, in the mid-1980s. It is made from materials including
March 28 Martin Luther King, Jr., leads a march of striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tenn.. Violence during the march persuades him to return the following week to Memphis, where he was assassinated. – 1968. At 4 a.m. the worst accident in the history of the U.S. nuclear power industry
The 69th Annual Kiwanis Club of Aurora Pancake Breakfast, Saturday, at Aurora Central Catholic High School, finds Kiwanis Club of Aurora members working together to make thousands of pancakes on two rotating grills that were designed and built by Kiwanis member Al Sinden, vice president of Engineering at Stephens-Adamson in
“The parasol is the umbrella’s daughter. And associates with a fan. While her father abuts the tempest. And abridges the rain.” —Poet Emily Dickinson Umbrellas were invented to protect the pharaohs from the sun. An umbrella was a symbol of wealth and power. Did you know that umbrella parts were
As I sit here composing this piece, at this very moment, no, that moment is past, at this very moment, no, that one is past now. These moments go by too quickly to latch on to one. Anyway, I’m psyching myself up for another kidney stone surgery, which will be
The empty store on Broadway in Aurora and the sign tell the story of the recent closing. Jason Crane/The Voice
Aurora resident Jim Scott shows a photo at the Aurora Noon Lions Club meeting Monday of the late 1930s/1940s Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp in Poland. He was on a guided tour of Auschwitz and Birkenau camps during a December 2018 European vacation. Al Benson/The Voice
