[Magdalen] Thanksgivings Past.

[Joseph Cirou]

Hi David,

I went to St Phillip's today for the Choral Eucharist which included one of
my favorites: Benjamin Britten's Jubilate which was especially appropriate
for the Centenary year of his birth.
However, as a former Chicagoan, Monee is about 5 miles south of Park
Forest. I used to ride my bike there regularly and stop at a wonderful
French Canadian restaurant, I forget it's name (in fact there are a few
French restaurants around there because the area has a French heritage
between there and Kankakee). Sauk Village is closer to Indiana and there is
another town right at the border whose name I have forgotten. I would drive
30 sometimes straight to Fort Wayne when I had a Byzantine Rite Mission
there.

There must have been a local IC that went to Monee in your time. I know the
first stop on the Ic Mainline was Kankakee.
When I lived in Park Forest, they extended the suburban line to what was
then Park  Forest South now University Park because of my alma mater
Governor's State University (that's where I got my MA in music with a
concentration in voice)

It became semi rural within a few miles when I lived in Park Forest and I
would bike the byways several times a week and stop at some of the
restaurants in Crete, Monee, I still have friends that live in Crete.

Joe

On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> I was remembering this morning so many Thanksgivings from the past.
>
> For so many years in West Central Wisconsin, I would do the three  piece
> suit and go down to the traditional Choral Eucharist at the local Christ
> Church
> Cathedral at 10 AM.  They had developed a tradition of decorating  the
> high altar with colorful gourds, pumpkins, corn, apples, grapes, etc. -
> the
> produce of the autumn harvest.  This could be trite, but it was  actually
> really well done.  Even the high altar Tabernacle (front and center  where
> a Tabernacle should be!) was banked with this decor.
>
> Then I remember the 8 Thanksgivings I spent with my Aunt Helen in
> Chicago, and the fun of taking the Badger Bus to the North Shore RR
> Terminal in Milwaukee, and thence down to Howard Street and on foot
> over to Ashland just at the city limits.  Thanksgiving dinner was at  my
> Aunt Nora's in Monee, just at the Indiana line, and via the "IC", the
> Illinois Central Railway - another fun excursion.
>
> Then the Black Friday in the Loop and riding the packed escalators
> in Marshall Field's and taking in the wonderful windows of the main
> store on State Street.  Aunt Helen had to work at the Lee  Gilbert
> Jewelry store on South Michigan Ave., so I was on my own.
>
> The Sunday for me was initially at the grand First Methodist Church
> in Evanston, and then eventually at the cavernous Saint Luke's
> Episcopal in that City.
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> Such fond memories.
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> David Strang - who wouldn't be able to dress up in a three piece suit  if
>                       I  wanted to at this time.
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