Although the novel begins with an account of how Clare came to
Lacewood in the 1880s, as part of a brief opening exposition about the town itself, the rest of the history proceeds chronologically, from when Jephthah Clare comes to America in 1802 until the turn of the millennium.
There are two main species of wood termed "
lacewood," notes Rick Banas, vice president, Interwood Forest Products.
Alison Reading, sales director for Persimmon Homes South Midlands, explained: "On average we expect to see between ten and 15 house hunters a week at any one of our new developments, so the fact that
Lacewood Gardens is receiving over 100 per week is a real testament to the fact that we're offering extremely desirable new homes in a key property hot spot.
THE STORY:
Lacewood, Illinois, is the home of Clare Soap and Chemical, manufacturer of pore cleanser, air freshener, microwave bacon, car tires, and Multi-pli Maxiwipes.
Before he created the prototype for Kiruna (named for a city in Sweden and a nod to his paternal grandfather, who is Swedish), he built several things in his house, including a
lacewood kitchen table, a Mission-style entertainment center, beautiful fishing rods that took him 30 hours each to make, and, also for fishermen, a mahogany and maple fly stretcher with hand-notched pegs.
Wood veneers such as quarter fiddleback anegre, sycamore, makore, and brazilian
lacewood have recently replaced walnut, cherry, and mahogany of earlier periods.
counter are hand-sized maple leaves of flame birch, Australian
lacewood, African purple heart, Honduras mahogany, ink-black walnut and bird's eye maple.
Crawley's had produced the first animated television series anywhere in North America, The Wizard of Oz, in 1962, and several private animation studios such as Atkinson Films and
Lacewood Studios have come and gone since then.
As in Powers's first novel and, again, in his third, The Gold Bug Variations (1991), Gain unfolds along contiguous narrative lines.(1) One frame recounts the two-hundred-year expansion of the Clare family's soap and candle business into a huge multinational conglomerate; the other relates the final year in the life of Laura Rowen Bodey, a forty-two-year-old divorced mother of two whose terminal cancer may have been caused by environmental pollutants from the Clare factory located in her hometown of
Lacewood, Illinois.
* Paragon Entertainment, which made an-ill-fated acquisition of
Lacewood Studios and subsequently fell victim itself to consolidation and shut its doors;
Clare has a factory in a Midwestern city called
Lacewood, where 42-year-old Laura Bodey lives with her two teenage children, tends her backyard garden, sells houses for Next Millennium Realty and discovers Clare seeping into her life.
A divorced mother of two, she has ovarian cancer that may have been caused by environmental toxins from Clare's plant in her hometown of
Lacewood, Ill.
The cabinets are made of
lacewood that is stained burgundy which Hayes says is Wesley's favorite color.
Including stripes (Kazuri Stripe, Obi Stripe and Sash Stripe), geometric lattices (Blessing) and organic patterns modeled after tree bark (
Lacewood), leaves (Ginkgo) and shagreen leather (Pearl Ray), Affinity's FR draperies need room to be admired.
COMMON NAMES:
Lacewood, silky oak, selena Northern silky oak, Australian silky oak, European plane
