Sigrid Schultz
Happy birthday, Sigrid Schultz!
Sigrid Schultz was born on January 15, 1893, shortly before the world’s fair known as the World’s Columbian Exposition. Sigrid spent her early childhood in an area with the evocative name of Summerdale, now part of the Edgewater neighborhood on Chicago’s North Side. The neighborhood, located within the Chicago city limits, was largely undeveloped. There…
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Little Norway and Sigrid Schultz
First, let me say that this post is not about either the now defunct Little Norway living history site in Wisconsin or Little Norway Resort in Minnesota, which are the first things that a Google search of Little Norway will pull up. Instead it is the story of the main training camp for the Royal…
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Building Blocks
I’ve lived in Chicago since the fall of 1980, but I never noticed that the street side of the Tribune Tower is embedded with stones from famous buildings around the world until recently. The trigger for me was correspondence from Sigrid Schultz detailing her successes and failures in acquiring, authenticating, and shipping stones to the…
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