Brookfield Zoo Tropic World, Brookfield IL


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Museum of Science and Industry Space Center, Chicago IL

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Jesus Was a Plumber?

A long time ago, when I was working as a custom cabinetmaker and doing murals as a sideline, I was hired to paint a religious scene in the lunchroom at a Catholic hospital in a rural Illinois town. Supervising me would be the half-dozen-or-so nuns from the order that had founded the hospital. Continue reading

Brookfield Zoo Great Bear Wilderness, Brookfield IL

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Airplanes

The first commercial flight I took in 1957 was as a boy with my family, from New Orleans to Los Angeles. All of the men on the plane wore suits, I wore a coat and tie. My sisters wore frilly dresses. We checked our luggage and walked from the terminal at Moisant Field (now Louis Armstrong International Airport), across the open tarmac and climbed the rolling staircase into the fuselage. Continue reading

Red Oak Nature Center, North Aurora IL

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Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Chicago IL

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