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William Both was an entrepreneur in Northbrook. He built this store which is located near the present REMAX real estate office. (corner of Hwy #41 and Glastonbury Rd). Mr. Both also was the caretaker at the Slave Lake powerhouse which generated electricity for the Ore Chimney Mine on the Harlowe Road.
William Both was the first Postmaster of North Brook. The post office name was changed from Kaladar to North Brook in 1890. The post office was located in the store as well as the first telephone switchboard for James Vogen Telephone (around 1917). Living quarters for the family were at the north part of the building (left in this photo) and storage was at the back (right in this photo). Notice the store sold White Rose Gas - you can barely see the gas pump on the front porch.
Mr. Both sold the store to Mrs. Mack who became the first Postmistress in Northbrook. Mrs. Mack sold the store to Amos and Beatrice Lloyd who later sold the store to Gladys Atherton for 'Glady's Cup and Kettle' restaurant.
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The all-weather, full-color signs at a few spots along the hiking trail invites visitors with Internet-connected portable devices like phone or tablet to scan the QR code to view the 9 and 10-year-olds' artwork of the frog on view. In this way the subject in its setting (frog at lake) and its artistic representation (art by 3rd graders) are joined together by means of the online version of the physical art. Rather than to put the QR codes at a library, school cafeteria, or community hall, instead the art and its source/subject matter are presented outdoors at the place it all begins, in the world of the frogs: Art imitates life, perhaps.
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