http://www.ourhomerenovation.com/posts/illsley/ Renovating a 1920s bungalow and a cottage in Rockford, IL Sat, 06 Dec 2008 04:38:37 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.ourhomerenovation.com/posts/illsley/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Barb Kelley Tue, 28 Jun 2005 20:45:37 +0000 http://www.ourhomerenovation.com/?p=29#comment-12 Wow Shawn! Neat description of our fantastic weekend tour on Illsley!! It was so--o awesome to share my favorite street in the whole world, with my family! Oh yea-- you forgot to mention it wasn't just your grandparents that moved into that house in '52, but also your mom and her sisters and brother!! :-) Oh well-- forgiven! It wasn't quite 60 yrs ago that the Memorial day parade and Christmas caroling started, but close! I was probably in about 4th grade when we started those traditions that have lasted all these years (which would add up to about 47 or 48, I think!) For the caroling, our moms made us white choir-like robes to wear (probably over our coats)..and Mrs Ingebrand had Nancy sing a solo verse or two of Silent Night! ;-) It was so much fun filling the current Illsley folks in with some of our memories and a little more history than they'd uncovered previously. One interesting thing was that almost every house had beautiful hard-wood floors that had been covered up by carpet for several decades, as that was the thing, back in our era! What goes around comes around, right? :-) Well-enough said...except that I remember crying when we moved away in 7th grade, to a neighborhood where I could barely sell any Girl Scout cookies at all!! ;-( It just wasn't the same as good ole Illsley! Love ya -- Mom Wow Shawn!
Neat description of our fantastic weekend tour on Illsley!! It was so–o awesome to share my favorite street in the whole world, with my family! Oh yea– you forgot to mention it wasn’t just your grandparents that moved into that house in ‘52, but also your mom and her sisters and brother!! Oh well– forgiven! It wasn’t quite 60 yrs ago that the Memorial day parade and Christmas caroling started, but close! I was probably in about 4th grade when we started those traditions that have lasted all these years (which would add up to about 47 or 48, I think!) For the caroling, our moms made us white choir-like robes to wear (probably over our coats)..and Mrs Ingebrand had Nancy sing a solo verse or two of Silent Night! It was so much fun filling the current Illsley folks in with some of our memories and a little more history than they’d uncovered previously. One interesting thing was that almost every house had beautiful hard-wood floors that had been covered up by carpet for several decades, as that was the thing, back in our era! What goes around comes around, right? Well-enough said…except that I remember crying when we moved away in 7th grade, to a neighborhood where I could barely sell any Girl Scout cookies at all!! ;-( It just wasn’t the same as good ole Illsley! Love ya — Mom

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