Update 14

Hello everyone! Here is what has been going on:

• We have integrated the name and index with the picture index. The final product will appear as another blog (address below), but it is still under construction at this time. I will have a post in the future of when it is completed.

http://lakeeffectarchivesnameandpictureindex.blogspot.com/

• We are still in search of a new team member and hope to find one soon.
• We have received the video of our interview with Susie Schrieber.
• The physical archive and the digital archive are well underway. A look at what we have done thus far can be found by clicking on the Archives and Special Collections link on the right.

Update 13

Welcome back everyone! After a nice restful summer we are back to the Lake Effect Project in full swing. Here is what we have in store:

• We are looking to add another member to the Lake Effect team
• In terms of the archive itself we are going to be organizing the materials and making the a formal archive account
• And we hope to begin the digital archive

Here is to a good semester!

Update 12

We are on hiatus till school starts up again in August.

Update 11

Hello everyone! We have had an exciting and productive last week. Here is a taste of what's been going on and what is to come:

• We have made two very successful trips to the Waukegan Historical Society. Head librarian Beverly Millard has been saving articles on the history and happenings of Waukegan and, more specifically, the Waukegan Harbor herself and was a great help. We also found a great deal of post cards, photos, maps, and drawings that are relevant to our project.
• We also had a great visit to the Lake County Discovery Museum thanks to the help of their archivist, Diana Dretske. She showed us a lithograph of Little Fort (Waukegan's original name) and a watercolor painting based off of the lithograph that were beautiful as well as many helpful postcards, other artists' sketches and maps.
• Yesterday we had an informative interview with Susie Schrieber, chair of the Waukegan Harbor Citizens Advisory Group (CAG)
• The picture I.D. document is nearly complete. We have located all but 18 of 69 photos
• We're looking forward to more interviews in the fall and we're excited about Nichols' upcoming lecture at Lake Forest College on October 27th

Update 10

The project is really underway now! We are planning on visiting the Waukegan Historical Society this Friday. The transcribed notes are complete and we are ready to begin a crash course on interviewing so that we can revisit people Nichols mentions in "Lake Effect." Sebastian is currently working on creating a picture-to-name document which will make it easy to look up photographs of those Nichols mentions. Dr. Dohrmann has begun to create a table of contents for the notes and interviews we have and I have been working on the first draft of the biography of Nichols for the online archive. More updates to come.