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Prairie Sky Music Festival – Getting Ready for Kick-Off
The first multiple day music festival at Robert Allerton Park kicks off tomorrow evening, Friday, August 18, 2017. The weather promises cooperation with this inaugural event. Today workers put up the...
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Prairie Sky Festival
PRAIRIE SKY MUSIC FESTIVAL – AUGUST 18~19, 2017 What a successful inaugural Prairie Sky Music Festival! Tremendous effort on behalf of all Park staff and volunteers made for a successful event. Workers...
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Music at the Park – Then and Now
Maybe this is Flashback Friday. Before there was a flatbed trailer for a stage, there were folding chairs for performers and a long cord for amplifier and speakers in the Brick Garden. Those were the...
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Charioteers and Racing Minds
Two gloved and goggled Park volunteers on scaffolding armed with buckets and hand brushes recently scrubbed the pedestal of a Charioteer. The mild weather and shady location undoubtedly made this task...
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Puvis de Chavannes on exhibit at Allerton Park
The Sacred Grove at the Art Institute of Chicago Last year, this vintage postcard gave unexpected proof that this painting actually exhibited in the Allerton House. A copy of a 1955 letter in the...
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A New View of The Park
Take a look at this drone video of the Formal Gardens of Allerton Park! A bird’s eye perspective. Enjoy!
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An Opportunity Awaits – Sunday, October 8 & Monday, October 9, 2017
Next Sunday, October 8, 2017, at the Allerton Public Library in Monticello, IL a great opportunity awaits. Mr. David Finnigan, author of the book Inside Allerton offers a talk and slide presentation...
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It’s all in the details…
Can you find the small change in the pair of Bronze Maidens? Compare the shots from 2016 and 2017. 2016 October October 2017 – Kuohl Bronze Maidens 2016 October The cable series Project Runway, Fixer...
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Sailing the Ocean – Crossing the Pond
This model of the transatlantic ocean liner, Mauretania, is on display in the Water Transportation exhibit in the Smithsonian Museum of American History, in Washington DC. The Mauretania belonged to...
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2nd Annual Kirby Wellness Walk Extended a Week
The Kirby Wellness Walk at Allerton Park has been extended an extra week. The Walk has been suspended for this week, January 2-6, 2018, owing to the dangerous weather conditions predicted to continue....
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A new perspective of Rainey Bennett – Four Floral Panels
The Chicago artist, Rainey Bennett, painted the four floral paintings that are inset within the paneling of the Oak Room at the Allerton Retreat Center. They were painted and installed in 1951, if not...
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Lost Garden, Lead Faun and Lost in Time
John Gregg spoke to the need to move garden ornaments and figures in order to keep them visible to the eye. The large Diana (now in Hawaii), the lead faun and the Three Graces moved about the Park and...
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A ‘founding father’ of Allerton – Dr. Kammlade
Panorama of Prairie Grass after recent prescribed burn in early April Today’s News Gazette reports the death of Professor William (Bill) Kammlade. This name jumped forth from the iPad screen because...
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Planning a Park – Planting a Prairie
Sangamon River bluff – Blue Trail In the Indentures by which he gave his estate to the University of Illinois, Robert Allerton referred to the land he owned on both sides of the Sangamon River to the...
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Greenhouse Cafe inside the Visitors’ Center
Big news seems to come out of the Park daily! On Thursday, April 19, 2018, the new Greenhouse Cafe inside the Visitors’ Center held its soft opening before the official ribbon cutting ceremony the next...
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The Note
This envelope with note inside, found tucked between the pages of a book in the Allerton library dates from May 1888. Robert Allerton, referred to as ‘Rob’ in the note was then 15 years old. Charles...
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