Nature at the Grove Animals, activities, food, fun Experience nature through hands-on Tentative schedule of events: activities, live animal presentations and •10 a.m. – Booths with activities more during GroveFest: Nature at the and food open. Wagon rides will be Grove on June 24 at Spiegel Grove, available until 2 p.m. the grounds of the Rutherford B. Hayes •11 a.m. – Back to the Wild will give Presidential Library & Museums. a live animal presentation. This free annual nature event is from •Noon – Rimelspach Farms will give a 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. It highlights Spiegel corn-grilling demonstration. Grove, a 25-acre state park and the • – Toledo Zoo will give a live Lorie McCown of Fredericksburg, 1 p.m. Virginia, created this quilt, titled “The estate of President Rutherford and animal presentation. Story Cloth Vol. 1-4”, which is featured First Lady Lucy •2 p.m. – in the “Quilt National” exhibit. Hayes, who Booths close. loved nature and Visitor parking the outdoors. is off-site only. ‘Quilt National’ The couple had For parking chickens, cows information, exhibit features and gardens on visit rbhayes.org array of art quilts the property. or call 800-998- Nature-related 7737. Birds flourishing next to oil organizations Major rigs, the moon, summer flowers will have crafts sponsors: and earthquakes are among the and activities KeyBank - inspiration for a variety of art for kids, and The Walter quilts that will be featured in the there will be E. Terhune next special exhibit at the Hayes live animal Families make nature crafts during the 2016 Memorial Presidential Library & Museums. presentations GroveFest: Nature at the Grove. Fund; “Quilt National” will feature 20 from the Randolph J. contemporary art quilts that were Toledo Zoo and Back to the Wild and Estelle M. Dorn Foundation. entered in the 2015 Quilt National Rehabilitation Center of Activity sponsors: Albrechta & Coble Ltd., competition, a biennial juried attorneys; Christy Lease; Decker Siding & competition of the contemporary art Castalia. Food will be available on the Gutter Solutions; Keller-Koch-Chudzinski grounds for a donation or purchase. Funeral Home; M.L.A.D. quilt, that takes place at The Dairy South Creek Clydesdales Graphic Design Services, LLC; Barn Arts Center in Athens, Ohio. will offer horse-drawn Mosser Construction; Pomona The exhibit opens June 3 in the wagon rides through Properties, LLC; ProMedica lower level of the Hayes Museum. It Spiegel Grove with guides Memorial Hospital, Unique will be on display through Oct. 15. sharing points of interest Fabrications, Inc. and Skip Quilts displayed in this exhibit on the property. Wagon and Ellen Honsperger; U.S. were made in 2012 or 2014 by rides are $3 for adults, $1 for Bank Foundation. Supporters: artists in the United States and Comfort Inn; Dan & Jacqué kids ages 6-12 and free for Lease; Richard Binau Insurance & around the world. They feature kids age 5 and younger. Financial Services; Ralph W. Peters, a variety of fabrics, colors and M.D; Sandusky County Convention innovative techniques used to and Visitors Bureau; Steinle GMC Fremont & Clyde. Please see Quilt, page 3 From the executive director McLochlin, will fill our long-vacant of tireless dedication to the Hayes curator position. Dustin has a Ph.D. Presidential Library & Museums. in policy history from Bowling Green In addition to being an outstanding State University and will head up a museum professional, Mary Lou is also newly formed curatorial and education an amazing coworker, always sharing department that will take the lead in cheerful words of encouragement providing more history to our public and a beaming smile with fellow staff in different and exciting ways. members and visitors. We will miss her. We are also pleased to announce Recently, we recognized former that Kevin Moore will be joining staff member Ralph Billow at a the new department as associate special ceremony during which we Executive Director Christie Weininger reads to kids during the Welcome Home Rud & curator of artifacts. This position planted two American Chestnut trees Lucy Party over Presidents’ Day weekend. was created after the announced at Spiegel Grove and named one retirement of Collections Manager of them in Ralph’s honor. Naming Intense work began this spring on our Mary Lou Rendon. While Kevin will trees at Spiegel Grove was a practice new strategic plan, which will chart be taking on the core duties of the started by President Hayes. Ralph our course for the next three years. collections manager, the position has began working at Spiegel Grove Board members, staff, volunteers, been expanded to include historical when he was a teenager. He was members of the community and research and educational outreach a chauffeur and handyman for the colleagues from other museums and components as well. Hayes family when they still lived in educational institutions have spent a Kevin has worked at the Hayes the Hayes Home. Ralph later became considerable number of hours over the Presidential Library & Museums as the superintendent of buildings and past few months helping us figure out a house guide and receptionist for grounds. what our planning action should be. two years. He was also part of the Ralph and his wife, Juanita, Some of the questions we have centennial weekend programming have spent decades working been discussing are: How can we committee. Kevin is an adjunct and volunteering for the Hayes increase the public’s awareness of instructor at several area colleges Presidential Library & Museums. and appreciation for our artifact and and universities, and his teaching Ralph is still an active member of our manuscript collections, how can we experience covers virtually all of Buildings and Grounds Committee. In make our buildings more “green,” American history as well as subjects that role, he took initiative to acquire how do we reach new audiences such as African history, world for us two sapling Chestnut trees. A and what kind of programs might civilization, art history, government, blight in the early 20th century wiped revolutionize the way people learn English and sociology. out most of the Chestnut trees in the about history? Is it enough that The strategic plan will be under United States, including two that people acquire historical knowledge development throughout the summer once stood in Spiegel Grove. Ralph, after experiencing one of our and released to the public later a true lover of trees, wanted to see programs, or should we inspire this fall. We believe you will be Chestnuts again gracing the grounds people to do something with that enthusiastic about our future plans, of the Grove. It was our pleasure to knowledge? These conversations and we are looking forward to recognize Ralph in this way and thank keep us invigorated and help us grow sharing them with you! him for the tremendous impact he has and flourish as an organization. While we are excited with these had on our organization. As part of our strategic plan, we staffing changes, we are sad to say The Hayes Presidential Library & are aligning staff expertise to support goodbye to one of our “sparkliest” Museums would not be the amazing our ambitious goals. On May 1, staff members, Mary Lou Rendon, institution it is today without such our education coordinator, Dustin who retired this month after 37 years wonderful and remarkable staff as these. Symphony band performs on Independence Day Celebrate Independence Day with a patriotic concert by the Toledo Symphony Concert Band at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums. The performance is from 2 to 3:30 p.m. July 4. The band will perform on the verandah of the historic Hayes Home. Admission is free. Bring a blanket or chair for seating on the lawn. In a Fourth of July tradition at the Hayes Presidential Library & Museums, Civil War reenactors will punctuate the performance of the “1812 Overture” with cannon fire. Sponsored by Crown Battery. Additional funding by Mosser Construction. The Hayes Home and museum will be open for tours from noon to 5 p.m. The library will be closed for the holiday. page 2 Collections manager retires after 37 years In the 37 years Mary Lou Rendon Library & Museums’ website and worked at the Hayes Presidential is searchable. Library & Museums, there are two Rendon was so good at cataloging things that haven’t changed. and storing the collections that One is her love of the museum’s an accreditation team from the 20,999 artifacts, for which American Alliance of Museums she lovingly cared, cataloged, cited her work as exemplary during organized and put in a searchable a site visit last year. online index. “The cleanliness and orderliness “It’s the experience of actually of collections is stellar and serves being able to touch something as an example for the profession,” that is a piece of history,” said the team noted. Rendon, who retired from She also loved putting together her position as the museum’s special exhibits with the museum’s collections manager May 3. “To exhibit team and has led setup of the think that an item I’m holding was annual “Hayes Train Special” model on a Civil War battlefield or used train exhibit since it started in 1994. by a soldier is mind-boggling. It’s Additionally, Rendon has helped been preserved and lasted.” set up for the annual Christmas The other thing that hasn’t changed dinners in the Hayes Home, which is the positive and helpful attitude is a fundraiser for the Hayes of the staff. Although Rendon has Presidential Library & Museums, seen many staff members come Collections Manager Mary Lou Rendon retired and been a server for those dinners and go in her nearly four decades May 3 after 37 years at the Hayes Presidential since they started in the 1980s. She at the museum, she consistently Library & Museums. plans to continue helping with the remembers them working as a team. dinners in some capacity. She worked for six executive directors. “Mary Lou has done a fabulous job over the years,” “The people I worked with always went out of their way Executive Director Christie Weininger said. “It’s not to help each other,” she said. “We pulled together.” easy caring for and keeping track of 20,000 priceless, Rendon began working at the Hayes Presidential Library irreplaceable items that could be on exhibit, in storage or & Museums in 1980 in the Museum Store and front desk on loan to another organization at any given time. She has on holidays and weekends. After a few months, the curator an encyclopedic knowledge of our collections and will be at the time, Jay Snider, asked her to help him index the difficult to replace.” artifacts. She matched a card describing the artifact to the Rendon will miss working with the staff and the artifacts, item and carefully packaged it. Later, she became assistant especially her two favorite items, the pencil believed to to the curator and then was promoted to collections manager be used by Gen. Ulysses Grant to write the surrender when Snider retired in the early 2000s. terms for the Confederacy at the end of the Civil War at At the turn of the 21st century, the Internet was still Appomattox Court House, Virginia, and First Lady Lucy fairly new, and she began indexing and cataloging all of Hayes’ brooch that features a cameo of President Hayes. the artifacts, information about them and photographs Rendon plans to spend time with her husband, Ray, and of them into an online database. That database, called do volunteer work. Past Perfect, can be found on the Hayes Presidential “This place will always be special to me,” she said.

Quilt, continued from page 1 quilt patterns and were not interested in What: “Quilt National” exhibit these unique quilts. convey each artist’s message. When: June 3-Oct. 15 “Each of these quilts is a demonstration A group of volunteers in Athens started of the creativity and artistic talent of Where: Hayes Museum the Quilt National competition to show the its maker,” said Nan Card, curator of Cost: Free to members. For transformation that was happening in the manuscripts at the Hayes Presidential non-members, admission quilting world and to promote quilting as Library & Museums. “Infused with vivid is included with a regular an art form. They began the competition colors, a myriad of fabrics and unusual museum ticket. Prices are at The Dairy Barn Arts Center, which is a techniques, each quilt holds special $7.50 for adults, $6.50 for refurbished historic barn. seniors and $3 for kids 6-12. Some of the quilts featured in the “Quilt meaning for its creator and often provokes National” exhibit use traditional techniques thoughtful responses from the viewers.” of piecing and patching fabric, but they also This exhibit is produced and distributed use new materials and technology. by The Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, Ohio. Artists strive to make an individual statement while The Dairy Barn Arts Center started in the late 1970s when provoking an emotional response for quilters dedicated to making art quilts found few venues the viewers of their work. that would accept their work “Quilt National” is sponsored by into exhibits and competitions. Traditional quilt shows wanted the City of Fremont and Walmart – bedcovers with recognizable Fremont, Port Clinton and Tiffin.

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Spring 2017 page 5 Verandah Concerts bring variety of music to Spiegel Grove The Rutherford B. Hayes bluegrass music Presidential Library & • June 28 – Fostoria Museums will showcase some Community Band of the region’s top musical groups this summer during its • July 12 – CB Singers, a free Verandah Concert series. vocal jazz ensemble Bring a lawn chair or blanket • July 26 – The Rev. Robert for seating on the Hayes Jones and Matt Watroba, Home lawn, and listen to a performing American Roots variety of groups perform two Music. American Roots Wednesdays a month on the music reflects history, social spacious verandah of President change and hopes and dreams. Rutherford B. Hayes’ beloved Genres include folk, blues and and historic home. spirituals. Each event begins with an The Rev. Robert Jones and Matt Watroba of the Detroit area • Aug. 9 – Terra Brass Choir ice cream social at 6:30 p.m., perform American Roots music at a 2016 Verandah Concert. and music starts at 7 p.m. If They will return this year. • Aug. 23 – North Coast Big there is inclement weather, Band concerts could be canceled. For updates, visit rbhayes.org or call 800-998-7737. Updates also will be posted on the Hayes The concerts are sponsored Presidential Library & Museums’ Facebook page at facebook. by Fremont Federal Credit com/hayespresidentialcenter and on Twitter at @rbhayespres. Union. Additional funding by The 2017 Verandah Concert schedule is as follows: Mosser Construction. • June 14 – The Fossil Creek Band, performing Squires: Spiegel Grove’s vintage base ball team place on the lawn behind the Hayes Home. The Squires are sponsored by Wright Leather Works, LLC. The schedule is as follows: • May 21 - 1 p.m. at Elmwood at the Springs in Green Springs vs. the Stemtown Stinkers. • June 4 - 1 pm. at home vs. the Rochester Grangers. • June 11 - 2 p.m. at home, celebrity all-star game. Local celebrities will suit up with the Squires. • June 25 – 11 a.m. at the Western Reserve Cup, hosted by the Cleveland Blues Base Ball Club at Lakewood Park in Lakewood, Ohio. • July 9 - 2 p.m. at home vs. the Stemtown Stinkers from Green Springs. Travel back to the Civil War era and the early days • July 22 – 11 a.m. at the of base ball – spelled with two words back then – this Sauder Village Cup at Sauder summer with the Spiegel Grove Squires, the vintage base Village in Archbold, Ohio. ball team at the Hayes Presidential Library & Museums. The Spiegel Grove Squires are base ball devotees who • Aug. 6 - 2 p.m. at home vs. bring to life the sport during its early years. It was in the the Mohican Rivermen. 1860s that base ball became an organized sport with rules • Aug. 13 - 1 p.m. at the of play and standards for base ball clubs. Carnation Cup Tournament, Members of the Spiegel Grove Squires are volunteers. hosted by the Alliance Crossing Rails Base Ball Club in They have studied and learned the methods of play used Alliance, Ohio. in the 1860s, including playing bare-handed and using • Aug. 27 - 2 p.m. at home vs. the Columbus Buckeyes. a bat that looks more like a broom handle. Players are called ballists, and they wear period-style uniforms and • Sept. 17 – 10 a.m. at the Tiffin-Seneca County Heritage adopt the language of 19th-century base ball during their Festival at Hedges-Boyer Park in Tiffin. matches, the term at the time for games. • Sept. 24 – 2 p.m. at home vs. the Alliance Crossing Admission to home games is free. Home games take Rails Base Ball Club. page 6 News from the director of development Looking to support the •Investments that are worth less than their cost can be sold, and the cash proceeds can be used to make a charitable gift for Hayes Presidential Library & a charitable deduction, thus offsetting any capital gain income. Museums for the long-term? Life Insurance: Consider charitable giving You can name the Hayes Presidential Library & Museums through planned gifts. as an owner or beneficiary of your policy. If there are Your gift to the Hayes Presidential premium payments that remain to be paid, you could make Library & Museums will make a annual gifts to the Hayes Presidential Library & Museums Kathy Boukissen, director of development lasting impact on the institution. As to help cover the costs of the premium, which would be we celebrate 101 years of existence, tax-deductible to you. your gift will secure our efforts for Types of Insurance the NEXT 100 years! • Paid-up life insurance policy - You can deduct the cash value of the policy at the time of Types of Planned Giving the gift. Bequest: • New policy A gift of money or property left by will or trust. Your -You establish the policy and then transfer ownership to the bequest can be unrestricted or designated to an area of your Hayes Presidential Library & Museums. interest at the Hayes Presidential Library & Museums. Interested in learning more? Benefits: • Bequests are simple to implement and can be altered over Please contact me at 419-332-2081, ext. 226, or your lifetime. [email protected]. • Tax-smart – A bequest may reduce estate taxes and does not diminish your current assets. Life-income gift: This is a win-win situation. You can make a gift and receive income for life and generous tax benefits. There are several options of life-income gifts: -Charitable gift annuities - charitable remainder trusts - give it twice trusts Securities: Stocks/Bonds/Mutual Funds: These are generally deductible at their full value if they have been owned for longer than a year. Benefits: •No tax is owed on the capital gain that would result from a Planned gifts help the Hayes Presidential Library & Museums sale of securities. continue its mission, which includes preserving buildings, •Securities that have increased in value can bring additional artifacts and manuscripts at Spiegel Grove. tax savings.

Tickets available for Music in the Parlor Correction Enjoy a live musical The concerts are from performance in the large 4 to 5 p.m. Seating is In the 2016 parlor of the Hayes Home, limited, and reservations annual report just as guests of the president are required. Cost is $12. edition of the and first lady did when they For reservations, call 419- Statesman, visited in the late 1800s, at 332-2081. total figures Music in the Parlor. Harpists Karen Svanoe for annual Twice a year, the Hayes Westgate and Sirka income and Presidential Library & Westgate Schreck are the expenses were Museums opens the large performers at the May 21 incorrect. Total parlor, which includes Joan Eckermann, special events and event. The performer for volunteer coordinator at the Hayes income was the life-sized portrait of Presidential Library & Museums, sings at Oct. 21 has not yet been $2,650,827, President Rutherford B. Music in the Parlor in October 2016. determined. For updates, Hayes, to feature a musical visit rbhayes.org. and total performance. Sponsored by Mosser expenses were This year, Music in the Parlor Construction. $2,873,403. takes place May 21 and Oct. 15.

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The Statesman is the quarterly newsletter of the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums. Executive Director: Christie Weininger Editor/writer: Kristina Smith Imaging and design: Gil Gonzalez, Kristina Smith Hands-on fun at Second Saturdays R 4 Kids Kids can learn to play vintage children to this program. base ball, experience life in Reservations are requested a Civil War camp and more and can be made by calling at Second Saturdays R 4 419-332-2081. Kids, a monthly educational • July 8 - There will be a program at the Rutherford B. scavenger hunt available Hayes Presidential Library & from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Museums. museum. Participants can The program takes place on stop by any time during those the second Saturday of each hours to do the scavenger hunt month. Some months feature a and can also tour the museum. hands-on event, and others will Cost is $1 for kids and $7.50 feature a scavenger hunt in the for adults. This includes museum. admission to the museum. Hayes Presidential Library & • Aug. 12 - There will be Museums members at the family Kids paint an Easter egg on canvas during the March a scavenger hunt available Second Saturdays R 4 Kids. /household level or higher and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the their kids and grandkids are museum. Participants can admitted for free. stop by any time during those hours to do the scavenger The Second Saturdays R 4 hunt and can also tour the museum. Cost is $1 for kids and Kids title sponsor is Impact $7.50 for adults. This includes admission to the museum. Credit Union. The schedule is as follows: • Sept. 9 - 11 a.m. Kids can experience what life was like in a Civil War camp. Civil War reenactors will teach • June 10 - 11 a.m. to noon. kids how to make camp food and learn military drills. The Spiegel Grove Squires, the vintage base ball team at Cost is $1 for kids. There is no charge for adults to bring the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums, children to this program. Reservations are requested and will demonstrate vintage base ball and teach kids to play. can be made by calling 419-332-2081. Cost is $1 for kids. There is no fee for adults to bring For the full 2017 schedule, visit rbhayes.org.