Mr. Guernsey LePelley
My name is Stone Tevis Ermentrout and my mother, Tevis Gibson Ermentrout grew up with Guernsey- who is male BTW- in Highland Park, Illinois a very affluent suburb on the north side of Chicago. Guernsey was married and had two boys - Lynn and Richard. He moved to Sharon Connecticut in the 1940s and built a beautiful home overlooking little River Falls about 100 yards from the New York State border nearby the cross roads village of Amelia Union. He also built a little red cottage on the property
which my mother and father rented in about 1951 for a year. I was a day student at Town Hill School located on the Hotchkiss Prep School campus while my older brother Allen went to Indian Mountain School in Lakeville Connecticut with Lynn and Ricky LePelley.
Mr LePelley’s parents were very wealthy while in Highland Park Illinois and retired to a huge pink mansion in Venice, Florida in the 1950s.
Mr. LePelley and his wife and two boys were practicing Christian Scientists as well.
I have been married now for fifty years to the daughter of Dania Mavor Mitchell who along with my mother were good friends of Guernsey’s as they all grew up in Highland Park, Illinois which is where I was born in 1943.
Mr LePelley was the internationally applauded and highly respected political cartoonist for the Christian Science Monitor Newspaper. At that time that newspaper was ranked along side The New York Times.
Mr LePelley helped found the Sharon Playhouse which is still operating today. He wrote a number of plays performed there.
which my mother and father rented in about 1951 for a year. I was a day student at Town Hill School located on the Hotchkiss Prep School campus while my older brother Allen went to Indian Mountain School in Lakeville Connecticut with Lynn and Ricky LePelley.
Mr LePelley’s parents were very wealthy while in Highland Park Illinois and retired to a huge pink mansion in Venice, Florida in the 1950s.
Mr. LePelley and his wife and two boys were practicing Christian Scientists as well.
I have been married now for fifty years to the daughter of Dania Mavor Mitchell who along with my mother were good friends of Guernsey’s as they all grew up in Highland Park, Illinois which is where I was born in 1943.
Mr LePelley was the internationally applauded and highly respected political cartoonist for the Christian Science Monitor Newspaper. At that time that newspaper was ranked along side The New York Times.
Mr LePelley helped found the Sharon Playhouse which is still operating today. He wrote a number of plays performed there.
