This past Friday, Sharon Wagenknecht invited us over for lunch and a tour. If you aren’t familiar with Sharon you should change that. She is the executive director of the Hegeler Carus Mansion. Mayor Grove, Fire Chief Andy Bacidore,Aldermen Lavieri and Herndon, Cindy Arbisi,Joanne Milby ,Ginny Kochanowski, Brian Maddox ,Mike Furlan and myself were treated to a wonderful lunch in the dining room of the mansion. Although the lunch was excellent what followed was even better.
Our tour guide, Tricia Kelly, doubles as the guide for our canal boat and she is totally into the subject matter, if you know what I mean. The mansion is not totally restored but that isn’t important. What is is the story of Edward Hegeler and Frederick Matthiessen. These gentlemen not only changed our little corner of the world they impacted history.
I am not going to tell the story but I am going to tell you if you haven’t been to the mansion and taken the tour you are missing out on a grand time and a story that will make you come away saying “I didn’t know that!”
Go to www.hegelercarus.org and get more info and make your plans for a visit…..
Who knows.. you might even get lunch!
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