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Calendar of Events 2008 |
Program Schedule for
2008 Museum Activities
Special Exhibits for the 2008 season include:
Illinois Association of Museums Award Winning Exhibit "Arrival: the 1920’s"
"Teed Off"
"Women with a Purpose (Seneca Ladies Literary Society"
"Childhood Revisited"
"Fun in Motion" and "Push & Pull"—Toys that Move"
"Tales of Ten Dresses"
"Art, Design and Psychology of Advertising"
"Capturing the Moment"
"Did You Know?" – Firsts and New Inventions"
"Strike Up the Band"
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June 29th – Sunday
Free admission for Village of Richmond residents.
July 6th – Sunday
Free admission for Village of Ringwood residents.
July 13th -- Sunday
Heritage Fair, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. "Ain’t We Got Fun!" From 11:00 a.m. until Noon Will Rogers impersonator Lance Brown will provide Rogers’ insightful, down home humor on stage in the museum. At 2:00 p.m. in the museum, Freddy Fredrick’s popular magic show takes center stage. At Noon and 3:00 p.m. AWS Certified Quilt Appraiser, artist, and teacher Sandy Schweitzer of Crystal Lake, with help from her grandchildren Kelsey, Gabrielle, and Max, demonstrate a bed turning and discussion of quilts used for special occasions. Pie baking contests and cake walks take place in the morning. Blacksmithing, bake, book, antique clothing, garden plants and white elephant sales are on-going throughout the day. At 1:00 p.m. an antiques auction takes place out on the museum lawn with Hebron auctioneer Ray Low, while inside one can enjoy the two-year major exhibit "Arrival – The 1920’s." Admission is free. "The James" mobile museum will be open and food is available. Come and spend the day. Look for the special exhibit of vintage 1930’s and earlier automobiles.
July 20th – Sunday
Free admission for City of Woodstock residents.
July 27th – Sunday
Free admission for Alden Township residents.
August 3rd – Sunday
Free admission for Algonquin Township residents.
August 10th – Sunday
Free admission for Coral Township residents.
August 17th – Sunday
Free admission for Dorr Township residents.
August 24th – Sunday
Free admission for McHenry township residents.
August 31st – Sunday
Free admission for Marengo Township residents.
September 7th—Sunday
Free admission for Richmond Township residents.
September 11th – Thursday
Museum open 1 to 4 p.m. free to the public in memory of the September 11, 2001 Tragedy. Visitors may view locally written reactions to the event and/or add personal reflections to the collection.
September 14th—Sunday
Free admission for Riley Township residents.
September 21st—Sunday
Free admission for Village of Spring Grove residents.
October 5th – Sunday
30th Annual Cider Festival, 10:00 a.m.—4:00 p.m. featuring musical entertainment by "Charlie B and Friends," between 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Visitors can try their hand at making apple head dolls. Visitors can also watch a barn raising beginning at 12:30 p.m. Throughout the day there will be harvest demonstrations, including blacksmithing and old fashioned cider making. An apple goodies bakery, book and white elephant sale and food will be available. The museum, the Gannon 1843 log cabin and 1895 West Harmony one-room school are also open free all day. Throughout the day antique tractors from the McHenry County Antique Farm Equipment Association will be on display with a tractor parade and contests beginning at 1:00 p.m.
October 15th – Wednesday
"Historic Haunted Séance" with two seatings, one at 7:00 p.m. and one at 8:00 p.m. The year is 1925 and those willing to cross over into the twilight zone will be transported back to "Heaven City," Hartland Township, McHenry County, and join a coroner’s jury as they investigate what the Woodstock Sentinel called, "Death Fight in Love City." Halloween refreshments follow in the Society’s West Harmony one-room school afterward. Admission charged for non-members of the Society. 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
October 19th—Sunday
Free admission for Fox River Grove residents.
October 29th – Wednesday
Annual Quilt Drawing and program at 1:30 p.m. featuring Maureen Mikyska of Marengo. Maureen’s program "A Family’s Quilts and Stories" relates the quilts passed down through the family to stories of the women who quilted them. Visitors are asked to bring their own favorite quilt for a show and tell following the program. The drawing for the Heritage Quilters quilt "Delectable Mountains" takes place at 3:30 p.m.
December 3rd – Wednesday
Thank You Tea for Historical Society Volunteers, from 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
December 6th – Saturday
*Free Holiday Open House from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Holiday music and cookies. For the third year Christmas Memorabilia Collector Dave Harms of Crystal Lake will set up a nostalgic display of holiday furnishings, gifts and trees. Experience Christmas through the eyes of time. 1867 Pringle School, on River Road, Marengo will also be open.
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*Beginning Monday, November 24th and extending throughout December, the museum will be open free during afternoons Monday through Friday from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. for those wishing to see the holiday displays. Closed dates are November 27 and 28 and December 25, 26, and 31.
- Please Note –
The museum library will be open 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. for research without appointment the following third Sundays: May 18, June 15, July 20, August 17, September 21, and October 19. Staffed by the McHenry County Illinois Genealogical Society.
To book "The James," the Society’s mobile local history museum, for your event, just contact the Society.
See www.mchenrycivilwar.com for dates and times.
Please contact the Historical Society for a barn registration form if you would like to register your McHenry County barn with the Society.
Find information on the County’s Quilted Barn program on our website www.mchsonline.org under Links to our Friends.
Board meetings of the McHenry County Historical Society are held the 4th Monday of the month at 7:30 p.m. at the museum. There is no Board meeting in December. These meetings are open to members.
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The following organizations meet at the museum on a regular basis:
The McHenry County Antique Farm Equipment Association of Illinois
The McHenry County Civil War Round Table
Call the Museum for dates and times.
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Please contact the Historical Society for a barn registration form if you would like to register your McHenry County barn with the Society.
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Board meetings of the McHenry County Historical Society are held the 4th Monday of the month at 7:30 p.m. at the museum. There is no Board meeting in December. These meetings are open to all members.