They say that if you want to know the history of a place then have a look at the cemetery first. So one morning I pedaled down to the cemetery and found the origin of the name Schaumburg in Illinois.
The original 1842 township survey, names the grove as Sarah's Grove. Three families lived near a grove of woods on the northwest end of the township, and each family had a woman named Sarah (Sarah McChesney, Sarah Frisbe, and Sarah Smith)
At a township meeting in 1850, citizens debated new names for the town. A wealthy landowner named Friedrich Heinrich Nerge, at one point during the meeting, slammed his fist on the table and said in German, "Schaumburg schall et heiten!" ( "It will be called Schaumburg!").
At that point, the township became officially called Schaumburg
Above Black and White picture clicked by Duane Rapp
German was the first language of the majority of households until the 1950s.
The cemetery, with 2600 total grave sites, continues to receive burials today.
Lightning struck the church steeple on July 11, 1904, and set it on fire. The fire, which burned slowly downward, was extinguished by the bucket brigade.
But the steeple was destroyed and had to be rebuilt. The bell was cracked and made useless. In 1956 the Men's Club replaced the bell and memorialized the founders of the congregation by placing it as a monument on the front lawn of the church.
The Schaumburg Center School was one of the five public schools founded in Schaumburg Township in the 1870s.
Originally located at Schaumburg Road, northwest of Roselle Road, (and numbered as 54) it was moved in1981 and restored on its current site on St Peter Lutheran Church property.
This one room schoolhouse is owned by the Village of Schaumburg and is leased to Schaumburg Township Historical Society. Unfortunately I could not have a look inside as it was closed for repairs.
Made a short video of all that I could capture in the morning. The squirrel at the cemetery lawn was eyeing me suspiciously "should I share my breakfast with this guy on a bicycle?"
On the way back I noticed these birds (a Great Blue Heron and Swallow) in the grove. (things that we don't notice when we zip past in a four wheeler)
I had seen Mario’s work in
many magazines and books, but the ones displayed here is something a Mario fan
should not miss. I went about practically clicking each and every caricature,
sometimes laughing aloud at the humor depicted so wonderfully in the cartoons.
These are from his dairies before he became famous as a cartoonist. His
detailing of the finer points in the everyday life of a Goan is remarkable. He
started getting into trouble at school for sketching catholic priests in his
cartoons.
The sermon from the pulpit
with generous showers. (the pulpit is no more functional but you can still see
them in the old churches)
He was probably one of the
first Indian cartoonists to use crow quill.
In one of his interviews to
Gauri Gharpure, he mentioned “What is
life just sitting at the desk? You must travel a lot when you are young. That
is very important.”
He is one guy who did not have
any formal education in this field but his knowledge of anatomy was great and
that was the reason why his cartoons always stood out.
His Miss NimbupaniandMiss Fonseca
were a regular feature in some of the magazines of yesteryear.
His drawings now adorn many
places, one of them being the Goa railway station (Madgaon)
I had clicked one of his creations in Hotel
Mondegar (in Mumbai) about 7 years ago and uploaded on Flickr.
Coming back to the ones in the
Fort, a detailed description of him at the entrance:
These are drawings of a typical
bachelor’s room (both male and female)
If you just look at a part of
it (any part) you will find all those little things that are bound to be there
in a bachelor’s apartment.
Then we have the city types
and the village types:
The emigrant is from Bombay and hence Bomboicar
If you look at the body stance
of each of the characters in the picture below you will understand what I mean
by “knowledge of anatomy”
And the language of Mr Johnson
and Mr Bandorkar.
Mr Johnson: “A trifle more elegance in the rhythmical
motions of your lower limbs Bandorkar”
Mr Bandorkar: “Arey? Vat you saying man, why phor such
much language?”
He is one of those Indians who
got all the three national awards: Padmashree, Padma Bhushan and Padma
Vibhushan.
A self portrait:
What I have put up here is
just about 10% of the pictures that I clicked. So ye Mario fans don’t miss this
place.
A typical adieu by Amul
Thefirst partof this can be seen here. http://joezachs.blogspot.in/2013/02/reis-magos-part-i.html
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