On Monday, March 19, at 2 p.m. the McHenry County Historical Society Museum at 6422 Main Street in Union will host the second in its four-part local history Sampler Lecture series. This Monday afternoon program features popular area historian and public speaker Craig Pfannkuche.
Beginning in the late 1920s and early 1930s and continuing into the 1950s prominent Chicago area public figures and business leaders began a back-to-the-farm movement.
With land prices relatively low, with hard roads and rail service for easy access and with picturesque landscapes in such areas as Bull Valley, the Chicago Farmer Movement took hold. Pfannkuche’s talk will identity who many of those famous farmer movement individuals were, why they came and where they settled.
Attendance at this lecture is a prerequisite for the Tuesday, April 3, tour of the home and property of Ronald and Barbara Parrish in Bull Valley.
The farm once belonged to well known Chicago attorney Kenneth Morton Fiske, a partner in the law firm of Defrees and Fiske for over 50 years. Individual lectures are $10 each.
Reservations may be made by calling the museum office at (815) 923-2267. Tickets for available seating may be purchased at the door.