In conveying the history of the Chicago Greenhouse Growers, based on the various documents passed on to me by my grandfather, and the oral history of stories from long ago conveyed to me by my father, I hope I will serve a useful purpose, especially for others who wish to find their own family in this history and perhaps, to connect the old with the new for a good and higher purpose. Too often we assume that we are the modern ones, the ones who are better than those who came before us, because of course, we have all this technology that has advanced us far beyond them, and we have all this knowledge they did not possess, or so we like to think and say, that they were perhaps a bit rougher and cruder than people today.

Nothing could be further from the truth…