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The club is in Lakeside, Michigan, where Addams owned property and spent the summer months, along with a number of other prominent Chicagoans. Other notable visitors and/or members included Chicago Bears founder and coach George Halas, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Luis Alvarez, Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, and Oriental Institute founder James Henry Breasted.
Carl Sandburg was another. He had a home in nearby Herbert. Sandburg was a Pulitzer-winning poet at the time, but “for those who knew him at the club, he was simply someone who played golf, gave occasional readings of his poetry, and showed up at social events from time to time.” I like to think that Sandburg may have flung magnetic curses when he missed a two-foot putt for par.
All the stories in the book were written by club members current and past. Taken as a whole, it’s an interesting history of the club, the area, and the glories of the game of golf.
