Some articles on blue island:
... The statement is sometimes made that the city of Blue Island was once officially (or commonly) known as Portland ... Norman Rexford established the “Blue Island House” at the southern edge of the ridge in November 1836, where in 1838 he became the settlement’s first postmaster ... In his reminiscences published in the Blue Island Standard in 1876, Heber Rexford (who first came to the area in 1834 and was Cook County treasurer at ...
Famous quotes containing the words island, called and/or blue:
“He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude, where we meet our friends continually, and can imagine the outside world also to be peopled. Yet some of my acquaintance would fain hustle me into the almshouse for the sake of society, as if I were pining for that diet, when I seem to myself a most befriended man, and find constant employment. However, they do not believe a word I say.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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