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MUSEUM EVENTS Centered Text
LYON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 72TH ANNUAL MEETING
Date: Feb. 09, 2010
Time: 6:30 pm
Place: Lyon County Historical Museum
118 East 6th Ave. Emporia, KS 66801
Please join us for the 72th annual meeting of the Lyon County Historical Society. There will be a short business meeting with a vote on proposed By-Law changes and for new members of the LCHS Board of Directors. After the business portion, we will then follow with Helen Ericson’s “If quilts could Talk” presentation as
part of our monthly Tuesday Night at the Museum programming.
For more information, call
Greg Jordan—Executive Director
Lyon County Historical Society
620-340-6312
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2010 LCHS Speaker Series
Please join us the 2nd Tuesday of each month
March 9 Jesse Solis
will present “The History of Las Casitas Park and Southwest Emporia”.
April 13 Vernon (Rick) Buck
1st Assistant County Attorney, will present a program relating to the
work he does in Lyon County.
Talks are free of charge and take place at 7:00 PM at the
Lyon County Historical Museum, 118 E 6th Ave Phone: 620-340-6310
The speaker series is underwritten through the generosity of the
Mary Louise Meder Foundation.
The Lyon County Historical Society is pleased to announce the recent generosity of Mary Louise Meder. Ms Meder left the LCHS a sizeable amount of money. The bulk of this gift will be put into our endowment fund with the remainder to be used to purchase much needed supplies and to endow the Tuesday Night at the Museum speaker series.
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Ethno-centric Historical Resources
The Lyon County Historical Society and Museum maintains a collection of historical memorabilia and archival research material on this group of Americans. For several generations, in spite of their contributions, African-Americans were excluded from our nation's history books. Learn more about their contributions in the history of our state and our nation.
The book Black Emporia shows how one town mirrors the nation's
experiences through oral histories, references to comparable national
events and a 1916 redwork quilt Read more...
Created on 02/04/2003 10:24 AM by admin
Updated on 01/27/2010 08:24 PM by lycohiso
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