Cavalry descending a bluff to the beach at Fort Sheridan with photographers documenting their training. Circa 1925. Fort Sheridan Collection...

In 1914, the U.S. Government designated the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day. The idea for Mother's Day in the United States may b...

I would like to commemorate the 68th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor with the story of one Lake County soldier and his fa...

Gordon Ray and his dog with pickerel, Diamond Lake, 1916. Gordon Ray Collection, Dunn Museum, 91.17.37 Lifelong Diamond Lake resident, Gordo...

From 1943 to 1946, Lloyd Ray of Diamond Lake, produced a homespun newsletter known as The Rays (cover of the September 1943 edition shown...

Happy Halloween! Begging, or trick-or-treating, is believed to have begun in the United States in the 1910s. Around the same time, costum...