Laura Washington Interviews Gregory Pratt on Lori Lightfoot’s Mayoralty
Laura Washington Interviews Gregory Pratt on Lori Lightfoot's Mayoralty William J. Bowe · wbowe.com Editor's Note: On April 5, 2024, The Cliff Dwellers its latest presentation of "Journalism: Today's Story." In the event, Laura Washington, Chicago Tribune [...]
Laura Washington Interviews Eileen O’Neill Burke, Cook County State’s Attorney
Laura Washington Interviews Eileen O'Neill Burke Cook County State's Attorney William J. Bowe · wbowe.com Editor's Note: Laura Washington is a Chicago Tribune contributing columnist and political analyst for ABC 7-Chicago. She brings more than two decades of experience [...]
Farewell Party for Chef Victor Perez
William J. Bowe · wbowe.com Farewell Party for Chef Victor Perez Editor's Note: On April 26, 2024, a farewell party was held for Chef Victor Perez of The Cliff Dwellers. It celebrated his more than two decades of loyal [...]
Live at Mr. Kelly’s Trailer
William J. Bowe · wbowe.com Mr. Kelly's Editor’s Note: The iconic Mister Kelly’s, once called a “supernova in the local and national night life firmament,” illuminated legendary Chicago’s Rush Street, and the entire country, by launching talent like [...]
Aristotle, Mortimer Adler, Charles Van Doren & Bill Bowe on Happiness
Aristotle, Mortimer Adler, Charles Van Doren, & Bill Bowe on Happiness William J. Bowe · wbowe.com Editor's Note: Recently at The Cliff Dwellers family, friends, and a number of Club members helped me celebrate the publication on [...]
The Riots & Rockets Book Launch At The Cliff Dwellers
On March 22, 2024, family and friends, and a host of Members of The Cliff Dwellers, gathered at the Club to celebrate the publication on Amazon of Riots & Rockets, William J. Bowe's memoir of his Army days during the riotous 1960s and '70s, Chicago politics in the 1970s, and his lawyering life dealing with collectors' plates and foundations, the newswire service United Press International, and Encyclopaedia Britannica in the Digital Age.
2023 Katherine Pargellis Bowe (1930-2016) and the Allen Family History
2023 Katherine Pargellis Bowe (1930-2016) and the Allen Family History Editor's Note: When John Edward Bowe (1928-1997) married Katherine ("Kathie") Pargellis (1930-2016), he married into the Allen Family. This came about because Kathie's father, Stanley McCrory Pargellis (1898-1968), [...]
Bill Bowe on the origins of Riots & Rockets:
“In early 2020, I feared my increased irritability during the ensuing lockdown could be a telltale sign I was descending rapidly into curmudgeonhood. Thinking this would be unfair to the dogs, not to mention my wife, Cathy, I decided I needed a project to keep my head straight. I started thinking and writing about several of the strange periods I had lived through in the years since my graduation from law school in 1967."
The Riboud Family during World War II
After the German Army entered Paris on June 21, 1940, the Riboud family fled occupied France for Baltimore, Maryland, Nancy Riboud's childhood home in the United States. Nancy first left for Portugal with her young daughters Chesley and Betsy, and her infant daughter Olivia. Nancy's husband Jacques soon followed, meeting them in Serta, Portugal before sailing on the SS Excalibur for New York.
