The RHS Facebook page is a rich archive of history-related posts by Carol Flynn, RHS Facebook admin and writer until mid-2025. Carol prolifically wrote a wide variety of meticulously researched local history articles for RHS. She continues to write for the Beverly Review and other media sources with articles particularly focused on local Ridge history.
2016
Friends of RHS! Come by this Sunday to experience the final performance and poetry of the Queen of Luxuria's Neighborhood Magic event, here at Ridge Historical Society!
For the past month, we have been collecting your special memories in our beautiful postboxes, handmade by Carron Little. Carron has then been taking your letters and crafting one of a kind works of poetry, representative of your own personal memories.
Come to RHS Sunday, May 8th from 2:00 to 4:00 PM to see Carron perform these poems live!
Refreshments will be provided.
For more information, contact Carron Little at 773-383-9951 or carronlittle@gmail.com
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Come by RHS tomorrow for a special screening of Neighborhood Magic!
On Thursday April 14th, at 7pm, we will screen a 30 minute documentary of public performance.
See you there!
Come see what is happening at RHS tonight!
Don't Forget to stop by RHS TONIGHT, starting @ 6pm for the grand opening of Neighborhood Magic, by Chicago's own Queen of Luxuria, Carron Little!
From April 8 to May 8, the public will be invited to post
their important moments into the sculptural mail boxes located in the garden of Ridge Historical Society. The Artist, Carron Little will
write poetry inspired by the important moments and post the poetry directly to people’ homes. At the opening on April 8, Carron
will perform a couple of the poems she wrote for Neighborhood Magic in 2015.
A 30 minute documentary of public
performance will be screen on Thursday, April 14 at 7pm at Ridge Historical Society.
http://www.ridgehistorical.org/pdf/Neighborhood_Magic_2016.pdf
Hello! Friendly Announcement:
The RHS Office will be closed during its normal business hours for the following week.
We will be back on our normal weekly schedule starting Friday, March 25th.
Please contact the office via email if needed, ridgehistory@hotmail.com.
Have a lovely weekend everyone!
TODAY at RHS!
Martha Jo Black, author of the recently published book Joe Black: More than a Dodger, will be speaking at the Ridge Historical Society about her father and the integration of professional baseball. This event is sponsored by RHS and E U of the PEO Sisterhood and will take place on Wednesday February 24th at 2 pm. The cost is $5 to attend. Light refreshments will be served.
Attention Friends of RHS!
We've had an interesting request come through the office recently, and we're excited to share it with you!
A neighborhood gentleman is intereseted creating a Sherlock Holmes club, and we'd love to see how many of our friends would be interested in joining.
Do you know a Sherlock fan? A mother or father, niece or nephew, highschool student, grandmother or grandfather, neighbor or teacher who loves solving mysteries? Anyone at all who is a fan of Sir. Arthur Conan Doyle's beloved detective is welcome.
Please contact RHS via this post or email(ridgehistory@hotmail.com) so we could start form Beverly/Morgan Park's own Sherlockian society!