Inspiration:
Mt. Aconcagua
At the Wilmette Theatre last Sunday, we accompanied North Shore resident Seymour Rikfind on his journey from Aconcagua, the highest peak in the Northern Hemisphere to Badwater Basin, in Death Valley - the lowest point in North America. Rifkin, athlete and motivational speaker, premiered “135 Days to Badwater,” a documentary about his training for and completing the 135-mile Badwater ultra marathon.
The journey really begins in the mind and spirit of Seymour, who as a kid growing up in Skokie dreamed of being a champion gymnast. Seymour and his father fashioned a set of parallel bars from scrap metal and discarded pipes in their backyard. When they set the bars into concrete Seymour wrote into the wet cement that he wanted to be a state champion – a goal he achieved in high school.
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The City of Highland Park has a “ONE BOOK, ONE HIGHLAND PARK” program that I decided to look into this year… the book chosen for reading and discussion is No Impact Man by Colin Beavan. The book is subtitled “The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process.”
On Wednesday, October 14, 7 pm at the Highland Park Library, you can see No Impact Man, the documentary. The film provides a front row seat to the strains and strengthened bonds that result from the Beavan family’s yearlong experiment with making as little environmental impact as possible.” (HPPL website)
Beavan will be at the Highland Park Library at 7PM, Wednesday, October 21 to talk about his book and the year he spent trying to eliminate the impact his sucking up the fossil fuels while producing mounds of trash lifestyle had on the environment.
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Lake Forest IL. Noted American historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author James McPherson will deliver a presentation titled “Lincoln and The West,” organized in conjunction with the year-long national commemoration of the Bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln. The presentation is sponsored by the Oppenheimer Family Foundation and Lake Forest College and will be held on Thursday, October 8 at 8 p.m. in the First Presbyterian Church of Lake Forest.
www.nps.gov
Tickets are required but there is no admission charge. Call 847-735-5085 for tickets. The best times to call are Tuesday through Thursday from 9:00 AM – 2:30 PM. Alumni, students, parents, and faculty/staff, from the College can visit http://alumni.lakeforest.edu/mcpherson to reserve their tickets.
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