North Shore

Shorefront Update #011

AdminDecember 31, 2018
2018 has been a significant year for Shorefront. Outreach, programming, recognition and special projects has kept Shorefront’s boards busy. Our activities throughout the year has expanded our impact on both a local and national platform. Shorefront founder, Dino Robinson, has been a strong advocate on the importance of independent community ... Read More

Researching Glencoe’s Racial Past

AdminDecember 28, 2018
—By Celia Buckman I came to work at Shorefront through a circuitous series of realizations and referrals. During the summer of 2017, just before I went to college, I was reading Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy on my back porch in Glencoe. I was taken aback by Stevenson’s stories of defending ... Read More

Wednesday Night Bridge Group Now Includes Men!

AdminSeptember 30, 2018
—By Janet Alexander Davis Change is one of the constant experiences we all will face during our lives, and change has come to an all women’ s bridge group which started around 60 years ago, The Wednesday Night group has been in existence for more than 60 years. Back then, ... Read More

Shorefront Legacy Center: A North Shore Jewel

AdminSeptember 18, 2018
— By Angela F. Allen Abbeville, SC to Evanston, IL In 2016, my family and I ventured to Abbeville, South Carolina to walk the land, to visit the cemetery and to spend time in the church of our maternal ancestors. It was the first time for some family members to ... Read More