Walsh & Ostermeier Families
Walsh and Ostermeier Families Editor's Note: My wife, Catherine Vanselow Bowe's father was Harold Vanselow, Sr. His sister, Eileen Vanselow, married Frederick Ostermeier, Sr. Their son and daughter, Fred, Jr. and Judy Ostermeier, both raised families in the Springfield, [...]
Things
A sample of the galleries you will find here include VISIT THE GALLERIES Editor's Note: Photos in the Things galleries are always located in particular places, and often have people in and around them, but the main [...]
Places
A sample of the galleries you will find here include VISIT THE GALLERIES Editor's Note: As the word "Places" suggests, these photo galleries are all partially defined by geography. The Foreign Travel Galleries and the Old Chicago [...]
People
A sample of the galleries you will find here include VISIT THE GALLERIES Editor's Note: The wbowe.com website was initially constructed during the Covid-19 virus pandemic that hit in early 2020. My goal was to digitally follow in [...]
Chicago Botanic Garden
Chicago Botanic Garden Editor's Note: Sunday brought the Reunion crowd another gorgeous, sunny day. The Buehler Enabling Garden was exclusively set aside for the Canavan Reunion group, as was our exclusive tram tour of the Garden's 385 acres. [...]
Augustine J. Bowe Obituary
Augustine J. Bowe Obituary (law-lit.net) Strangers to Us All Lawyers and Poetry Augustine Joseph Bowe (1892-1966) Chicago Lawyers and Literature James R. Elkins College of Law || West Virginia University http://lawlit.net/ http://lawlit.net/lp-2001/bowe.html I began law teaching at DePaul [...]
A Nickel Tour: Encyclopaedia Britannica at the Reid Murdoch Building
A Nickel Tour: Encyclopaedia Britannica and the Reid Murdoch Building Editor's Note: As Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Encyclopaedia Britannica, I was on the team that helped select and design its new global headquarters in 2005. [...]
The Impossible Dream: The Movie
Listen to the ill chosen words that sank The Impossible Dream faster than the Titanic.
A War Veteran Introduces the Old Chicago Slideshow
A World War II Veteran Introduces a Slideshow of Old Chicago Editor's Note: To introduce the Old Chicago slideshow played during dinner, I took the opportunity to review a 1945 Chicago Sun newspaper clipping. Though it wasn't good enough [...]