In February 1969, Beth Temple agreed to meet a surgeon she had never met after colleagues decided the two might suit each other.
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two → agree → other
Dr Arvid Temple was an older doctor with a dairy farm in eastern Will County, Illinois, which he had bought several years earlier.
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he → buy → which
They married that May, and the farm gradually became part of their shared life.
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farm → marry → life
Arvid died in 2007, but Beth continued returning to the property and caring for it.
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Beth → die → it
As reported by Forest Preserve District of Will County, more than half a century after their first meeting, the 160-acre Tempest Farm is being protected for the future.
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Farm → report → future
The first 40 acres were donated to the Forest Preserve District in 2020, while the remaining 120 acres are under a conservation easement, with full transfer anticipated in the years ahead.
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transfer → donate → years
How a blind date led Beth to Arvid Temple and Tempest Farm
Beth's colleagues had a simple idea when they arranged the meeting.
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they → lead → meeting
They believed their friend, then a young teacher raising a two-year-old child, might get along with Arvid Temple, a surgeon.
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friend → believe → Temple
Reportedly, she agreed to the blind date in February 1969.
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she → agree → February
Three months later, in May, they were married.
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they → marry → May
By then, Arvid already had a strong attachment to a 160-acre property in Washington Township.
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Arvid → have → Township
He had bought the farm in 1965 and called it Tempest Farm, after a horse he had owned and loved before his medical career took him overseas.
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career → buy → him
The farm was not simply a piece of land he happened to own.
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he → happen → land
It became the setting for much of the couple's life together, particularly at weekends.
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It → become → weekends
Beth eventually learned the practical work that came with it, from milking cattle and maintaining buildings to operating machinery and working with tools.
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that → learn → tools
She also planted nearly all the trees around the farm buildings, apart from one.
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She → plant → one
The childhood roots of Arvid Temple’s connection to farming
Arvid's relationship with land went back to childhood.
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relationship → go → childhood
His parents had emigrated from Belarus, where Jewish people faced restrictions on owning land, and settled in Chicago.
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people → emigrate → Chicago
Their home had a small backyard shaded by cherry trees, leaving little useful space for growing plants.
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home → have → plants
That modest garden seems to have stayed with him.
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garden → seem → him
When he was later able to buy property of his own, he chose a dairy farm.
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he → buy → farm
His first horse, Tempest, had a particular place in his memory.
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horse → have → memory
He had to sell the animal when he served as a doctor with the US Army during the Korean War in 1951.
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he → have → 1951
Later, he reused the name for another horse and even for a large German shepherd that Beth remembered as something of a lovable nuisance.
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Beth → reuse → nuisance
He was unable to enter some Chicago medical schools because of restrictions on Jewish enrollment at the time.
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He → enter → time
He eventually gained admission to Chicago Medical School, then served in the Army before moving into surgical training at veterans hospitals.
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He → gain → hospitals
That led to a medical career spanning about five decades.
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That → lead → decades
Beth turned farm produce into help for local families
For Beth, learning the farm was part of learning the life she had chosen with Arvid.
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she → turn → Arvid
She milked cows, worked with a front-end loader and skill saw, tended crops and vegetables and helped keep the dairy buildings clean.
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She → milk → buildings
On one occasion, she was kicked by a cow while treating an infected teat.
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she → kick → teat
Another involved cleaning the milking barn so thoroughly that she accidentally removed the smells the cattle used to identify their usual places at the stanchions.
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cattle → involve → stanchions
The cows did not take kindly to the change.
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cows → take → change
It took about two hours to get them settled back into their usual positions.
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them → take → positions
The couple also grew food that they passed on to people who needed it.
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who → grow → it
Some of the produce went to Respond Now, a social service organisation serving people in the Chicago Heights area.
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Some → go → area
For Beth, that work reflected something she had learned from her husband.
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she → reflect → husband
Arvid, she said, had shown her the importance of looking after other people.
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she → say → people
After Arvid’s death, Beth continued her life at Tempest Farm
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Beth → continue → Farm
Arvid died in July 2007, but Beth continued to spend time at Tempest Farm.
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Beth → die → Farm
After his death, she took on a project inside the old chicken coop.
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she → take → coop
…and 25 more, not listed.
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