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2024 Speaker Series: The Correspondence of Harley Wayne
08/24/2024 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM CT
Category
Public Program
Admission
- $10.00
Location
McHenry County History Museum
6422 Main Street
Union, IL 60180
6422 Main Street
Union, IL 60180
Summary
Join author and MCHS Board member Bob Frenz as he discusses his recent book, The Correspondence of Harley Way. Bob will take you through his first "meeting" as a young college student with Union, Illinois' most notable resident, and how this interest blossomed into finding Harley's beautiful home and the then-current owners Constance and Leo Parenti. He will recount how he spent a couple of lovely afternoons with the Parenti's, learning about the house and the man who built it in 1858. The Parenti's lovingly restored the home and related stories about the Wayne family and the house, even showing us drawings on a cellar wall made by Harley's son, Charley, over a century earlier. This house still stands in Union today.
Now, over a half-century later, Bob is still fascinated by a man who, at age 20, left his parents to embark on a harrowing journey to Illinois and then, at age 38, left his wife and child to begin an even more perilous campaign to help save the Union.
Now, over a half-century later, Bob is still fascinated by a man who, at age 20, left his parents to embark on a harrowing journey to Illinois and then, at age 38, left his wife and child to begin an even more perilous campaign to help save the Union.
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