A day with Ralph and Rosie... (Kind of a family thing!)

For those who may not know, Ralph Engelking is my Godfather. His Grandpa (Heinrich Hartmann) was my Great Grandpa. His father married my Grandpa's sister, they had 13 kids, Ralph was the last, and only surviving one left. He's 86. And he, and his much younger wife Rosie, are just a blast!

So I picked them up on Monday morning...

1. The first thing Rosie had to show me the fancy bloom on her flower. It was a beauty!


2. Then we took off and headed over to the Schaumburg Township Building on Schaumburg Road in Schaumburg, our old home town. What happens just as we are entering the Township Building? We run into Alice Gerschefske! It doesn't get any better than that! We yacked and yacked. Note that Ralph is wearing his White Sox T-shirt. I had to suffer no small amount of boasting about how the Sox swept the Cubs over the weekend!

3. Then we said, hey Alice, come back inside and let's go look for that quilt that is supposed to be hanging on the wall upstairs. We found it OK, complete with the Sunderlage house, St. Peter's Lutheran Church, the Easy Street Pub, the old General Store, and lower left is the old WGN tower! It was a work of art. We pulled some chairs into the hallway there and before long we had quite a crowd talking about the history of Schaumburg!

Then we went to the old ShamRose Inn, now the Lou Malnatis, and had lunch. YumYum!

4. One more stop. We drive West on Schaumburg Road and turn South on Springinsguth Road. Of course, if you don't know, Henry Springinsguth is the chap who married Grandma Heide (Mom's mom), Alma Nebel Heide Springinsguth to be more accurate. As we are crusing south on Springinsguth, we come to the now famous intersection of Springinsguth and Hartmann Drive! Ta da! We are standing on the hallowed ground of one of the Hartmann farms. Oh, Rosie shot the photo while standing out on Springinsguth and dodging traffic! Great job Rosie!

AsAlwaysRalphAndRosieRanMeRaggedHuggs,

UncleBill