Big weekend coming up next week in Anna-Jonesboro ***** Civil War Weekend of Union County, Feb 7-9***** a. Friday February 7, 2014 at 6:30pm- 8th Annual P.A.S.T. Lincoln Legacy Dinner & Auction Speaker: Dr. Frank Nickell, former History Department Chairman, Founder and Director, Center for Regional History, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO. Main Street Center- 400 S. Main, Anna, IL Call 618-833-8745 or email hileman14@frontier for reservations no later than Mon. Feb. 3rd b. SATURDAY, FEB 8, 2014 9:30AM TO 5PM, Events FREE, Anna Arts Center, 125 W. Davie St, Anna History Exhibit: Guns, Quilts, Encampment, Music, Kirkpatrick Pottery, Exhibit Contest, King’s Battery, Lunch, Children Activities, and Presentations. Speakers: 9:30AM Grant and His Lieutenants: The War in the West. Dr. Frank Nickell, Director Center for Regional History, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO 10:45AM The Political Climate of Southern Illinois in 1864 Darrell Dexter, historian, author, teacher. 11:45AM Civil War Origins of the Stars And Stripes Newspaper James Mayo, Director, Stars and Stripes Museum, Bloomfield Missouri. 1:00 PM Photographers of the Civil War Charles Swedlund, Retired Professor of Photography, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Illinois. 2:00 PM Civil War Steamboats Built on the Lower Ohio River Robert Swenson, Historical Preservation Consultant and recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Illinois State Historical Society. 3:00 PM Southern Illinois Volunteers in the Atlanta Campaign of 1864 Glen Bishop, Civil War historian and lecturer. 4:00 PM Caught in the Sweep of History: Egypts Soldiers in the Second Year of the Civil War Mike Jones, Director, Gen. John A. Logan Museum, Murphysboro Illinois. 7pm: Play “Patches and Squares,” Story about the home front starring Pete Housman. Call 618-697-0009 for $10 ticket. c. SUNDAY, FEB 9, 2014, at Anna Arts Center, 125 W. Davie St, Anna 1 PM Historical Bus Tour: “Lincoln’s Footsteps and Friends in Anna-Jonesboro” Call 618- 833-8745 for $10 reservation by Feb 3. 2:30 PM Exhibit Contest award presentations 2:35 PM Play “Patches and Squares,” Story about the home front starring Pete Housman. Call 618-697-0009 for $10 ticket.
Posted on: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 14:22:39 +0000
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