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Book Talk at Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Ill – Arthur H. Miller, archivist and librarian for special collections at Lake Forest College, will give a book talk on Lake Forest: Estates, People and Culture (Arcadia Press 2000) as part of the College’s celebration of Black History Month. Miller’s presentation on Thursday, February 20 at 4 p.m. will be held in the Lincoln room of the Donnelley Library at Lake Forest College. The talk is open to the public and is free of charge. For more information please call 847-735-6010. Written by Arthur Miller and Shirley MacDonald Paddock Lake Forest: Estates, People and Culture is a book about the local community—not just the grand places everybody knows about but also the town within a town, people who built and were employed on the estates. The book tells the story of the local African American community and particularly of two leaders of this community; Samuel Dent, a livery driver who died in the 1890s, and Walker Sales, an African American police officer in town from 1900 to about 1919. There were African American communities south of the College, around the Washington and Illinois (the oldest); on the north side of the original town east of the tracks; and on the west side of the tracks around where the Deerpath Inn is today. There were African American businesses along Western Avenue opposite the train station until Market Square was built. Shirley MacDonald Paddock was born in Lake Forest originally living on a North Sheridan Road estate where her Canadian born father was the driver/gardener. She is an accomplished genealogist, and local historian, serving on the archives and research committees of the First Presbyterian Church and the Lake Forest Preservation Foundation. Dr. Arthur Miller, a resident of Lake Forest, has been on the library staff at Lake Forest College since 1972. Along with Rosemary Cowler and Franz Shultze, he authored the book 30 Miles North: A History of Lake Forest College, Its Town, and Its City of Chicago. Lake Forest College is a private liberal arts institution located 30 miles north of downtown Chicago. The College has 1,300 students representing 45 states and 43 other countries.
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