Spring/Summer 2017 • Vol. 2, Issue 13 Treasure of Sioux City awards presented ioux City Histor- ic Preservation SWeek included a special recogni- tion at the Peirce Mansion on Friday, May 12. The Sioux City Historic Pres- ervation Commis- sion presented their annual Treasure of Sioux City Awards to the Peirce Mansion Com- 1893 mansion after the mittee and former Curator of Museum moved to an History Grace Linden. expanded facility in downtown Sioux City in Linden worked at the Sioux April 2011. Since then, City Public Museum for 20 open house events years before retiring in 2015. have been held on a Linden continues to volunteer near quarterly basis to at the Museum and works showcase the progress Left: Bob Coacher, chair of the Historic Preservation occasionally on weekends at of restoration efforts. Commission, presented a Treasure of Sioux City award to Grace Linden. Above: Coacher joined the Peirce the Museum’s front desk. Volunteers maintain Mansion Committee for a photo after the presentation. the home and are The Sioux City Museum hosts for rental events such as Vice President Don Duzik ac- & Historical Association’s weddings, birthday parties, cepted the award on behalf Peirce Mansion Committee graduation receptions and of the Peirce Mansion Com- started renovations of the company events. Association mittee volunteers. Inside:

Page 2 - Vibrant Bounty: Chinese Folk Art Page 3 - Above: The 1934 Duck Stamp is from the Shaanxi Region showcases colorful featured in the exhibit, The Hidden Works of artwork like these Baby Tiger Shoes, n.d., Jay N. “Ding” Darling. Page 4 - Right: A col- cotton, embroidery thread, 3 1/4 x 3 1/4 x 5 orized image from the Museum’s collection 3/4, private collection. Photo: E.G. Schempf. on display in the Ho-Chunk Centre atrium.

The Sioux City Public Museum collects, preserves, and interprets cultural and social history with an emphasis on Sioux City and the region.

GRAND OPENING

Experience the history of Sioux City like never before! You are invited to celebrate the grand opening of the new Sioux City Public Museum. Explore state-of-the-art interactive displays, engaging permanent exhibits, rare Sioux City artifacts and so much more. Please join us on this history-making day as we present ÒOur New MuseumÓ to the community.

WHO: Sioux City Public Museum WHAT: Grand Opening Ceremony & Ribbon Cutting WHEN: Saturday, April 23, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. WHERE: 607 4th Street Director’s Report by Steve Hansen Spring into summer! We have two incredible temporary City Public Museum is a com- enjoyed a great spring at all exhibits and a wide range munity meeting place. sites with school tours, pro- of programming that should grams, walking tours and whet your appetite. Our guests continue to be special exhibits. Attendance amazed with our facilities has been very solid and we This summer we have joined and often wonder out loud have witnessed an increase with Downtown Partners to how we can offer so much. in out-of-town groups, which host “Downtown Live,” a The answer is that we have has been particularly reward- series of concerts formerly an incredibly talented staff ing as we know the word is known as “Friday’s on the and a core of very dedi- getting out that we have an Promenade.” Due to con- cated volunteers. It takes a outstanding museum. struction issues, the event strong team to consistently had to be relocated. We offer quality programming As our spring programming agreed the concert series and as the director I am very winds down, we are prepar- could be held on the Mu- fortunate to have this team. ing for a busy summer sea- seum Plaza starting on June son. As you read through the 1 through July. This is just one I am looking forward to the newsletter, you will see we example of how people are summer season and hoping have a full slate of classes, recognizing that their Sioux to see you soon! Chinese folk art featured in exhibit xperience the folk art ExhibitsUSA description: By depicting scenes of labor from an area of China As brilliant as the petals of a within lavish pastoral settings, Ethat shares the unique lotus and as bold as a spring the paintings celebrate the Loess landforms with western storm, these folk paintings farmers’ unity amidst the im- as the Sioux City Pub- and artifacts of rural China mensity of nature. The arti- lic Museum presents Vibrant reveal a national spirit that facts in this exhibition reveal Bounty: Chinese Folk Art from is as charming as it is vital. a humanity that aids in un- the Shaanxi Region. Orga- derstanding a people half a nized by ExhibitsUSA, a pro- world away. gram of Mid-America Arts Al- liance, the exhibit will be on Vibrant Bounty: Chinese Folk display June 17 to August 6. Art from the Shaanxi Region invites visitors on a journey “The art and the objects through Shaanxi Province, featured in this exhibition are one of the cradles of Chinese a wonderful introduction to civilization. The capital city, a region of China, which, like Xi’an, was once the Eastern the Midwest, is dominated terminus of the ancient Silk by agriculture,” said Steve Road, and is famous for its Hansen, Museum Director. ancient ruins, most notably “Through these paintings and the Mausoleum of Qui Shi the artifacts that accompa- Huang and his Terracotta ny them, we gain a greater Army. In an area outside of understanding of the cus- the city’s center lies Huxian toms and culture of a people Zhihui Fan, The Pomegranate Reddens in (or Hu) County, where, since who share a similar agrarian August, 1985-1991, tempera on paper, the 1950s, local artists have 31 1/4 x 21 3/8, private collection. lifestyle.” © Zhihui Fan. Photo: E.G. Schempf. (continued on next page) Traveling exhibit explores Darling’s life xplore the extraordi- up in Sioux City and started nary life and career of his career at the Sioux City Exhibit-related Ea famous Sioux Cityan Journal. programs whose reach extended to Programming related to journalism, politics and con- “We are pleased to be host- various aspects of Darling’s servation. The national travel- ing this national traveling amazing life will be held at ing exhibit, The Hidden Works exhibit in remembrance of a the Museum throughout of Jay N. “Ding” Darling, is Sioux Cityan of such stature,” the exhibit’s run. Humanities now on display at the Sioux said Steve Hansen, Museum Iowa is sponsoring “The Art City Public Museum through Director. “The scope and of Conversation, a Visit with August 13. breadth of his talent, creativ- Ding Darling” with Tom ity and influence is uniquely Milligan on Sunday, June 4 The exhibit features the works captured through the variety at 2 p.m. and personal artifacts of the of rare artifacts on display.” pioneering conservationist, Curator of History Matt creator of the Duck Stamp Jay N. “Ding” Darling pro- Anderson will present the and two-time Pulitzer Prize lifically produced images History at High Noon pro- winning cartoonist who grew of caricatures, landscapes, gram, “The Life and Career and people containing in- of Sioux City’s Darling” on credible detail, both in black Thursday, July 20 at 12:05 and white and bold colors. p.m. based on the slide Among the never-before- show presentation that is seen artifacts on display are part of the exhibit. Darling’s camera from his days as a young local report- An event with exhibit de- er and his personal scrap- veloper Samuel Koltinsky is Jay N. “Ding” Darling’s life and legacy has been the subject of two films and several book of his Sioux City Journal being planned for the after- publications of his prints and cartoons. (continued on next page) noon of June 25 as well.

(continued from page 2) been producing objects simi- The artists use shui fen (paint The artifacts included in this lar to the twenty-five paint- powder and water—similar collection expose the audi- ings and fourteen objects to gouache or tempera) on ence further to Chinese rural found in Vibrant Bounty. This thick paper to create the life and they show, in detail, tradition has achieved great paintings. While Huxian peas- traditional Shaanxi customs. renown in China, culminating ant paintings depict ordinary They range from children’s in the state Ministry of Culture aspects of people’s lives, the clothing and toys to New awarding Huxian the honor- vibrant colors emanate from Year’s prints and decorative ary title of a “Village of Chi- an animated atmosphere, household items, often em- nese Modern Folk Painting” and are only enriched by fre- broidered with lucky figures in 1988. quent hyperbole and moral and animals. Not only are connotations. Festivals, pa- they carefully handmade These peasant, or farmer, rades, the harvest, music, vil- and beautiful, they also hold paintings are closely related lage traditions, farm animals, symbolic wishes for good to the traditional Chinese winter, kitchen work, and luck, good marriage, and arts of embroidery, batik (a children are all celebrated in good health. fabric dying method), pa- these paintings. per-cut, and wall painting. Showcasing images from the Museum’s collection ave you ever noticed Ho-Chunk Centre/Blue Earth Stoney Creek Inn all of the places where Jackson Street Brewing Co. United Center/CMBA Hhistoric Sioux City pho- Lewis and Clark Interpretive Wells Fargo, Downtown tographs are displayed in the Center (Various Exhibits) community? Or have you Norm Waitt Sr. YMCA Outside of Sioux City, photo- seen photographs in a favor- Perkins – Downtown graphs are showcased in the ite book or magazine article? & Eastside African American Museum Sioux Guitars of Iowa in Cedar Rapids and The Sioux City Public Museum Southern Hills Mall (continued on next page) provides photographs from its collection for a small fee. Among the local entities displaying reproductions from the Museum’s collection are: Automotive Electric Blue Ribbon Bar China Star Buffet Coney Island, Marketplace Dorothy Pecaut Nature Center First American Bank Four Brothers Restaurant Photographs from the Museum’s collection were made into murals for the Ho-Chunk Centre. (continued from page 3) cartoons. His Sioux City con- Koltinsky, owner of Marvo across the country, Koltinsky nections are also empha- Entertainment Group. Koltin- continued to work diligently sized with artifacts from the sky has produced numerous to preserve Darling’s legacy. Sioux City Public Museum’s documentaries in Europe He is fulfilling the promise to collection such as his 1908 and the and Darling’s grandson, who has cartoon book and a silver has worked with PBS. In 2012, since passed away, to cre- purse belonging to Darling’s he produced the documen- ate the Jay N. Darling Center wife, Penny. tary, America’s Darling: The and Institute for academic Story of Jay N. “Ding” Darling study. The exhibit was developed in cooperation with Darling’s by filmmaker and recog- grandson, Kip Koss. Com- “I truly believe that Darling’s nized Darling expert, Samuel bined with his follow-up film, work represents Americans Darling is Back: at our best – when we col- The Restoration laborate and cooperate of Lake Darling, – and we need to learn to Koltinsky has do this again,” said Koltin- sifted through sky. “His works contain social 12,000 cartoons, and political images that 300 hours of are just as pertinent today as audio record- they were when he created ings, and 800 im- them…Darling was a vision- ages. Even after ary and a renaissance man, the films were and his artwork and activism Exhibit creator Samuel Koltinsky installed the exhibit with Curator completed continue to have a positive of History Matt Anderson to emphasize Darling’s Sioux City roots. and screened impact on the world.” (continued) the McGraw Foundation in Heidman Law 125th Anni- Northbrook, IL. versary Booklet, 2016 High Times on Lower 4th, Museum photographs are 2010 DVD also featured in a variety Mary Treglia Exhibit at the of publications and video Betty Strong Encounter productions. The Sioux City Center Journal’s two recent Sioux Sioux City Orpheum Theater These locally-focused publications/videos City Memories books have Revealed, 2010 book are available at the Museum Store. featured both Museum col- The Last Great Neighbor- Jackson Street Tour, 2008, lection images and photo- hood: The South Bottoms, reprinted in 2016 graphs the public shared as 2009 DVD Kaboom: The True Story of part of a scanning partner- The Woodbury County the Powder House Blast by ship with the Museum. A Courthouse Revealed, Ron Robinson, Ex Machina third volume of the Sioux City 2014 book Publishing Co, Sioux Falls, Memories book will be pub- SD, 2016 lished in December 2017. Other recent videos/publica- Nicolo degli Albizzi: Expert, tions featuring the Museum’s Jester, Maverick: Journal of Prolific local photographer collection images include: the New England Ski Mu- George Lindblade has incor- America’s Darling: The Story seum by John Allen, Issue porated Museum images in of Jay N. “Ding” Darling, 98, Fall 2015 several of his projects, in- Marvo Entertainment Ode to Joy Sioux City Sym- cludling: Group, 2013 phony Orchestra 100th Clix, 2016 book Baseball in Northwest Iowa Year, IPTV, 2016 Fully Involved: The History of by Joan Thomas, Arcadia Palaces Corn and Coal Go the Sioux City Fire Depart- Publishing Co., 2017 Royal, American History ment, 2016 book Briar Cliff Review, Spring 2016 Magazine, April 2014 Pinnacle Bank Calendars “Ding’s” life in Sioux City Sioux City’s Grand Avenue Jay Norwood Darling was During his turbulent college Viaduct by Jennifer Price, born on October 21, 1876 days, he adopted the nick- 1936-2010, IA Department in Norwood, MI to Congre- name “Ding.” After gradu- of Transportation, 2010 gational minister Marcellus ating from Beloit College Sioux City Railroads by Rudy “Marc” and Clara (Woolson) (WI) in 1900, he became a Daniels, Arcadia Publishing Darling. Marc became pas- reporter for the Sioux City Co., 2008 tor of Sioux City’s First Con- Journal. Before the year was Sioux City Stories by Don gregational Church in 1886 up, Journal editor George Stone, ed. Jean Rhinehart, and Jay spent the remainder Perkins had made “Ding” 2011 of his youth in Sioux City. He Iowa’s first daily cartoonist. Security National Bank 125th developed a deep affection His work caught the atten- Booklet, 2009 for the wild areas along the tion of Des Moines Register South Bottoms Bugle news- Missouri and Big Sioux Riv- editor Gardner Cowles. By letter ers and the region’s natural the end of 1906, Cowles Untitled film by Dan Manatt, prairie landscape. He also succeeded in luring “Ding” Democracy Films indulged his interest in draw- away from the Journal. A You Can Yell It! Coming of ing by carrying a sketch pad remarkable career followed Age in Leeds, Iowa by Bill with him nearly everywhere until his death in 1962. “Ding” Poston, Outskirts Press, 2016 he went. He graduated in and his parents are buried in Reproduction order forms are available online at siouxcitymuseum.org/ 1894 from Sioux City High. a family plot in Sioux City. research-collections/photographs. SUMMER PROGRAMS Reservations are required unless otherwise noted Three-day Camps 9:00 a.m. – noon Summer Classes Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday, Ages 4 – 6 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. Fee: $40/member, $45/non-member; A snack will be provided. Experience books through engaging activities. Ages 6 – 8 Fee: $5/member, $6/non-member per session Dinosaurs Rock!!! June 20 – 22 Giraffes and Chimpanzees June 13 Dig into geology, volcanos and dinosaurs. Fun with Harry the Dog June 27 Dragons and More Dragons July 11 Ages 7 – 9 The Little Blue Truck July 25 Cooking Camp June 13 – 15 Create fun foods in the kitchen while learning Ages 7 – 10 10:30 a.m. – noon about mixing, measuring and nutrition. Victorian Tea Party June 28 *Held at the Peirce Mansion, 2901 Jackson St. Ages 10 & Up Come ready for a Victorian Tea party with tea Bridges, Robots and Rockets July 11 – 13 and snacks, crafts and some parlor games. Hands on fun with STEM, including daily design Fee: $5/member, $6/non-member challenges. Students will design and test creations including rockets and bridges. Family Programs Kid’s Thursdays* 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. NEW FOR 2017! *Pre-registration not required for Kid’s Thursdays only. One-day Camps 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Geared to families with young children. Adults Bring a sack lunch. Snacks will be provided. and children will explore hands-on learning Fee: $35 member/$40 non-member activity centers. Fee: $1 per child per session Ages 7 – 10 Fun at the Farm June 8 Blast Off With NASA! June 29 Life in a Teepee June 22 Make rockets, explore the Space Station and Going on an Iowa Safari July 6 conduct experiments related to space exploration. Kinda Korny July 20 Full STEAM Ahead! July 12 Dino Day August 3 Can you float a boat and apply steam power too? STEAM activities geared to young shipbuilders. SAVE ON CLASSES BY BECOMING A MUSEUM MEMBER Special offer: Save $5 on a new family membership if Day of Wizardry July 26 you join when registering for summer classes. Hone your wizarding skills with wand-making, Scholarships are available based on financial need. For details, potions, Quidditch and Harry Potter movie clips. contact 712-279-6174 or [email protected]. MUSEUM SUMMER REGISTRATION FORM Class sizes are limited. Payment is required to hold class reservations. Please use a separate form for each child. Registration forms must be dropped off/mailed with payment to the Sioux City Public Museum. 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Children’s summer programs: returns August 19 – 20 from 10 Looking for something for Programs and Walking Tours: a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday your child to do during sum- Monthly History at High Noon and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sun- mer break? The Sioux City programs will be held on the day on the grounds of the Public Museum’s summer third Thursday of the month, Welcome Center. Visitors are programs provide a vari- while a series of walking tours invited to explore an 1804 ety of fun and educational will be offered during the living history encampment opportunities from June 8 summer. A Historic Fourth featuring re-enactors, tents, through August 3 for children Street Walking Tour will be camp equipment, and fire- ages 3 and up. Pre-registra- held Saturday, June 10 from arms like those used by the tion is required for most sum- 10 to 11:15 a.m. Participants Lewis and Clark expedition mer programs. should meet at the corner during their stay along the of 4th and Virginia Streets for banks of the . Blast Off With NASA!, Full the tour led by Haley Aguirre, STEAM Ahead! and Day of Archival Records Clerk. The Sgt. Floyd Burial Ceremo- Wizardry are all-new one-day ny will be held Saturday, Au- camps offering a full day of The Peirce Mansion will host gust 19 at 6 p.m. at the Floyd fun. A three-day dinosaur an Open House starting at Monument. Re-enactors in camp makes its return, along 6 p.m. prior to the Jackson full dress uniform re-create with the Victorian Tea Party Street Walking Tour on Thurs- the 1804 burial of Sgt. Charles at the Peirce Mansion. day, July 13. Tom Munson, Floyd, the only member of Archives Manager, will lead the expedition to die during Class sizes are limited; pre- the 75-minute walking tour the journey. The ceremony payment is required to hold departing from the Peirce includes a description of reservations unless otherwise Mansion at 7 p.m. and his death, noted. Registration forms For a complete listing of events, as written in the journals by must be dropped off at visit siouxcitymuseum.org. Capt. .

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Museum Staff Haley Aguirre, Archival Records Clerk Matt Anderson, Curator of History Christine Dekker, Sgt. Floyd River Museum Supervisor Mary Green-Warnstadt, Development Coordinator Steve Hansen, Museum Director Steve Hanson, Welcome Center Custodian Dottie Johnson, Front Desk/Museum Store Assistant Bernetta Lopez, Museum Attendant Exhibits & Events RAND PENING Tucker Lutter, Custodian Through August 13 G O Connie Macfarlane, Education Coordinator Deanna Mayo, Administrative Assistant The HiddenExperience Works the ofhistory Jay of Sioux N. “Ding”City like never Darling before! You are invited to Tom Munson, Archives Manager celebrate the grand opening of the new Sioux City Public Museum. Andrea Thoene-Meyer, Welcome Center Assistant Sunday, JuneExplore state-of-the-art4 interactive displays, engaging permanent exhibits, Eric Turner, Custodian “The Art ofrare Conversation, Sioux City artifacts and soa much Visit more. with Please Ding join us Darling” on this Theresa Weaver-Basye, Curator of Education history-making day as we present ÒOur New MuseumÓ to the community. David Will, Custodian 2 p.m. at the Sioux City Public Museum Laurna Witt, Welcome Center Custodian Presented by Tom Milligan; sponsored by Humanities Iowa Museum & Historical June 8 – August 3 Association Board Members WHO: Sioux City Public Museum Terry Gottburg; President, Don Duzik, Vice- Children’s summer classes andWHAT: camps Grand Opening Ceremony & President; Joellen Graham, Secretary; Russ Gondek, Pre-registration required for most programs; Ribbon Cutting details on p. 6 Treasurer; Harold Canny, Rosie Chicoine, Terry WHEN: Saturday, April 23, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. Duzik, Kathy Fliginger, Greg Guelcher, Connie Saturday, June 10 Macfarlane, Patrick McKeever, Marc J. Mozak, WHERE: 607 4th Street David Nelson, Joan Schurtz, and Eric Turner. Historic Fourth Street Walking Tour Museum Board of Trustees 10 – 11:15 a.m. meet at the corner of 4th and Virginia Janet Flanagan, Chair; Priscilla Forsyth, Vice-Chair; Michele Boykin, Katie Colling, Gregory Giles, Thursday, June 15 Wendy Lego, and Ben Nesselhuf. History at High Noon: All-America City Board Meetings 12:05 p.m. at the Sioux City Public Museum The Association typically meet at 6:30 p.m. on the 2nd Tuesday of the month; the Trustees typically June 17 – August 6 meet at noon on the 2nd Friday of the month. Vibrant Bounty: Chinese Folk Art from the Shaanxi Region