Evanston: this house revisited
Evanston: this house revisited
Perhaps you remember this house, which I wrote about on November 13, 2008.
If you don’t, you must pay closer attention. There can be a snap quiz at any time.
I happened to drive past it a few weeks ago and wondered what had become of the woman who lived there alone with the corpses of her dead siblings.
The house is in the news again because it has just been sold. An offer was made less than a week after it went on the market. The realtor said that the buyers knew of the house’s history and were not “put off by it. Honestly, a lot of homes have people who died in them.”
I conclude from other information in the short news item that the unfortunate woman who outlived all her family is still alive and in a nursing home.
Officially this last storm dropped about a foot of snow/.3 of a meter on Chicago. While this is the biggest storm of the winter here so far, again we have fared much better than the East.
Today is clear, sunny, in the 20ºs F, and beautiful. The snow is still pristine.
A few other people were out, walking their dogs. Dogs and people seemed happy. A young mother was helping her reluctant child through a snowy park. A man was cross-country skiing back and forth in the same park, keeping to one set of tracks.
The first two or three hundred yards of the lake are covered with lumpy ice and snow; then there is a narrow band of open water, beyond which the lake is frozen smooth.
That is not sand in the photograph.
Thursday, February 11, 2010