October 2019
The Terrifying Truth of Victorian Medicine
Tricia Kelly will present "The Terrifying Truth about Victorian Medicine." The graceful, elegant Victorian life that many people picture is truly at odds with the reality and sometimes horror of Victorian medicine. Kelly will present the realities of those times, some of which can be gruesome. Kelly is the Tour Director at the Hegeler Carus Mansion in LaSalle and is a storyteller. She has been at the Mansion for 15 years and says she has been spoutin' blarney for most of her life.
Find out more »December 2019
Journey to Cooperstown
At our November-December meeting, Betty Jean Peterson (now Fox) will talk about her "Journey to Cooperstown." In the early 50s Jean, who grew up in Wyanet and loved baseball, played for three different teams in the All American Girls Professional Baseball League. Learn what it was like for women in sports in that era.
Find out more »January 2020
Anti-German Hysteria During WWI
Heinz-Dietrich Suppan will be the speaker for the January 23, 2020 meeting at the Bureau County Genealogical Society. The meeting will be at 7:00 pm at 629 S. Main St., Princeton. Suppan teaches German and history at Marquette High School in Ottawa and serves as an adjunct instructor at Illinois Valley Community College. He will give a presentation entitled “Anti-German Hysteria During WWI.” Many Germans had come over in a migration wave in the late 19th century. In the German tradition they built…
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