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 […]

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.

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 […]