YE OLDE TOWNE FOLKES This is how local society of 1916 recalled, the origins of the village at a banquet and story-telling fete in Brown's Hall on Wilmette Avenue. ln the group are numerous leading men and, women from whom many of these sketches were gathered. The rules of this organization provide that members must have resided in Wilmette 25 years or more. The society of Ye Olde Towne has passed on to the third generation of those who saw the incorporation of the little hamlet. 19