On hole 11 of Canal Shores Golf Course in Evanston, Illinois, nestled in a grove of old growth trees, sits a bright red telephone booth — fashioned after Britain’s red phone boxes, complete with glass doors and intricate gold royal crowns.
It’s a wind phone, meant to connect visitors with the people they love and have lost.
Wind phones originated in Japan — the brainchild of architect Itaru Sasaki, who purchased an old phone booth and set it up in his garden to carry on conversations with his late cousin who died of cancer. They typically contain an old rotary phone, not wired to anything, and sit in some sort of natural area.
