Elgin Garden Club celebrates 100 years
It was 1916.
In France, World War I battles were raging at Verdun and along the Somme.
In Elgin people who drove by the 900 block of West Highland Avenue in their Model Ts or their horse-drawn carriages often stopped to admire the elegant three-story Wing Mansion. But they couldn’t quite forget that morning, 19 years before, when the Watch City’s favorite society woman had burned to death standing at the window in i… (View original article)