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Greetings!
Well, it's been a very long week for all of us. The big,
beautiful, white tent is up, the truckloads of antiques
are in place and the dedicated garden staff
continues to work day and night getting ready for
the grand opening of Garden Antiques at The
Chicago Botanic Garden on Saturday.
I don't know how they do it. After months of planning
and a week of deliveries and set-up, Nancy and I are
so tired we're barely able to think up useless errands
to take us past Starbucks - let alone do something
constructive.
Addy is on a mission to figure out how he can ride
the garden tram without adult supervision. I've heard
that you can get a fairly believable fake I.D. on the
internet. Nancy thinks he should just try to make
friends with the drivers and maybe they'd let him
co-pilot. Sure, who wouldn't want to sit next to a
chattering six year-old while trapped in a slow
moving truck for forty-five minutes?
All The Best,
Beau, Nancy & Addy
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What's New In the Woodstock Store |
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a pair of heavy, turned brass chandeliers,
a pair of silver plated sconces, a very interesting
silver plated chandelier with an intricate vegetative
design, a Scottish hammered copper coal scuttle...
a very substantial wrought iron dining table with
brass feet and a glass top, a faux bamboo and
basket weave patio dining set with a matching sofa,
a really unusual painted metal side chair, a pair of
nicely restored, black spring steel chairs....
 a whole pile
of vintage garden hand tools,
hundreds of unused 1920's-1950's garden seed
packets with great artwork, a big pair of turned,
Bedford limestone planters, a couple of interesting
stone finial fragments and little marble sink basin
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Garden Antiques at The Chicago Botanic Garden |
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Now you can get your garden antiques fix in two
locations. Our original store in Woodstock remains
open our normal five days a week and our new
partnership with the Chicago Botanic Garden
Garden Antiques at the Chicago Botanic
Garden is
open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays, and from
10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on weekends, through Labor
Day.
...Attend the grand opening of a venue filled with
antiques for the garden, balcony, deck and sun-
room, on June 12. Special events include
demonstrations by famous master potter Guy Wolff,
New Preston, Conn., and a talk on the history and
use of garden antiques by Beau and Nancy Kimball,
Kimball & Bean, Woodstock, Ill.
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And You Thought I Just Made This Stuff Up |
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You guys should really pay more attention to my
dining recommendations. Back in my May 2003
Newsletter I wrote...I'm just
back from the Midwestern "Too Thick to
Drink - Too Thin to Plow River Tour of 2003"...I
gorged myself on smokey-sweet pork ribs
and sharp coleslaw at L.C.'s Barbecue - a converted
filling station only locals know about -just off of 435
North in Kansas City, Missouri.
In the July Bon Appetit
magazine, Vince Staten, co-author of the book
Real Barbecue has written an article about
barbecue in Kansas City where he picks L.C.'s
Barbecue as the heir to the Arthur Bryant
legacy.
Staten further writes, The cooker is right behind
the counter, so when L.C. opens the pit door, smoke
seeps out into the dining room. And thats a good
thing. It's a wonderful smoke, aromatic and enticing.
L.C's sauce is sweet and thin and profound. As is the
experience of eating his barbecue.
I just got a tip that there is a great barbecue joint in
Waukegan or Rockford or maybe it was Peoria? Better
watch this space - I'll get back to you later.
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