Given my own hazy memories, I realize that soon there will be no one alive who truly remembers that distant time. I grew up in a hi-rise overlooking Chicago’s Lake Michigan—about as cocooned from the ...

OUR KATIE THOMPSON. SITTING INSIDE HUDSON’S AMERICAN HERITAGE MUSEUM, SURROUNDED BY ORIGINAL WORLD WAR TWO TANKS AND OTHER ARTIFACTS, CASTOR SALAME SITS IN THE SAME UNIFORM. HE WORE SOME 80 PLUS YEARS ...

"University Museums Director, Albert Sperath ; Exhibit Curator, Deborah Freeland ; Memories Editor, Robin Hendrickson ; Consulting Historian, Dr. James Cooke ...