the sweetness of doing nothing
Last Wednesday I started my new internship at the Clarke House Museum (located at Indiana and 18th Street). The Clarke House is the oldest house in Chicago, built in 1836 for Henry Clarke and his family, it was one of the few structures to survive the Chicago Fire (1871) because it was outside of the fire zone. I learned on my first day that the Clarke house has remained in such excellent condition because it only had three owners prior to becoming a house museum: the Clarke Family (for 36 years), the Crimes...