News VOLUME 18 · ISSUE #2 FALL, 2011
I LLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF MUSEUMS
The IAM Awards Presentation took place in Exhibits Bloomington at The Chateau Hotel on October 21, Award of Merit 2011. Here are the winners. Non-Competitive Awards DuPage County Historical Museum, Educational Programs Wheaton, DuPage County and the Civil War: Award of Merit A Local Perspective
Downers Grove Park District Museum, Elmhurst Historical Museum, History Camp on the Road Magical History Tour Laura McDowell & Kline Creek Farm, Wheaton, | Award of Excellence Kathleen McDonald, A Day on the Farm Field Trip Mitchell Museum Glencoe Historical Society, Sycamore History Museum, Civil War-Through the Eyes of Glencoe Junior Docent Program Veterans
Mitchell Museum of the American Award of Excellence Indian, Evanston, Dazzling Colors: The Evolution of Plains Reservation Art DuPage Children’s Museum, Naperville, Jack Olson Gallery, NIU, DeKalb, Chagall for Children Exhibit Tattoo: An American Evolution Programming NIU University Art Museum, DeKalb, The Museums at Lisle Station Music to My Eyes: Musical Instruments Peter Van Ael, Park, as Visual Art Olson Gallery, NIU Chicago History Author Series Chris Barry, DuPage Sycamore Historical Children’s Museum Society, Award of Superior Heartbeat of a Achievement Community: Downtown Sycamore DuPage Children’s Museum, Naperville, Forces and Motion: Vermilion County A Professional Development Program Museum Society, Peter Olson and Jo Burke, Danville, Intuit: The Center for NIU Art Museum Puzzle Cubes Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago, Winnetka Historical Society, Teacher Fellowship Serving All Fronts: Winnetka & World Program War II
Midway Village Museum, Rockford, Flying Solo: The Remarkable Bessica Patti Van Cleave & Raiche Sue Richter, Katie Macica, Vermilion Co. Winnetka Historical Mark Herman, Midway Village Museum Soc. Society
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Illinois Association of Museums 1 Old State Capitol Plaza Award of Superior Achievement Springfield, IL 62701 Grayslake Historical Society, 217/524-6977 Fax: 217/785-7937 Embracing Change: The Growth of Grayslake HPA.IAM@illinois.gov
Secretary: Illinois State Museum Martha Jane Downey, Bishop Hill State Historic Site, Bishop Hill
Treasurer:
Kate Schureman, Lakeview Museum, Peoria
Administrative Assistant: Sue Huitt, Springfield
[email protected] Promotional Materials Join the IAM List Serve at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IAM_ListServ/ Award of Merit
Adler Planetarium, Chicago, Adler Planetarium 2010 Annual Report to Donors Dorothy Otis, IAM News (ISSN 1076-9267) is a quarterly newslet- Kate Gaskill, Adler ter published for its members by the Illinois Associa- Marengo tion of Museums. Award of Excellence The Illinois Association of Museums, organized in Marengo Society for Historic Preservation, 1994, is composed of museums, historical and genea- Classic American Architecture in Marengo, logical societies, zoos, arboreta, and other cultural Number 8 of Calendar Series and educational agencies in Illinois that are involved in the preservation and interpretation of history, pre- Award of Superior Achievement history, natural and built environments, and social, Diane Gutenkauf, Robert R. McCormick Museum, scientific, cultural, and/or artistic endeavors. Robert McCormick Museum Wheaton, Museum Brochure Change of address notices, undeliverable copies, edi- torial correspondence, and membership application Scholarly Publications should be sent to the address above. The news media may use any material in this publication when IAM Award of Excellence News is credited. Third class postage paid at Spring- Vermilion County Museum Society, Danville, field, Illinois. Newsletter appears online at http:// Vermilion County and the Civil War www.illinoismuseums.org. Sue Richter, Vermilion Co. MS Cont’d on page 5
2 Letter from the President
Dear Members,
This issue highlights one of my favorite events of the year, our annual IAM awards banquet. I am always amazed by the incredibly high level of creativity that is demonstrated by each of our award winners, regardless of the size or budget of organization. It reminds me that good work is not an accident; it is done by people who care about their work. This is evident throughout the museum community, and certainly by this year’s award winners. I invite you to call your colleagues and congratulate them on a job well done.
For us at IAM, the completion of the annual IAM Awards Banquet means that it is time for us to turn our attention toward one of our highest priorities, Museum Advocacy Day. If you have not yet attended, we need you to add your presence to our collective voice in promoting the importance of Illinois museums in our state and in our local communities. As in previous years, Museum Day will be held in Springfield in early March, with the exact date to be announced soon on the IAM listserve, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IAM_ListServ/ I hope to see many of you there.
I would also like to take a moment to welcome our new IAM Board Members: Mary Lou Galloway of the Southern Illinois Art & Artisans Center, Sharon Bradham of Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Kim Sheahan of Spurlock Museum, Jeff Woodward of McLean County Historical Museum, Leslie Goddard of Morton Arboretum, Susan Haake of Lincoln Home National Historic Site, and Matthew Toland of Campbell Center for Historic Preservation. I look forward to working with all of you in 2012 and beyond.
Happy Holidays to all of our IAM Members. I wish you all the best in 2012 and look forward to an exciting year ahead of us.
Sincerely,
Dave Becker, President
3 State & National Organizations...
Association of Midwest Museums Announces its 2012 When Water Emergencies Strike Your Conference Collection: Response Training & Workshop
Make plans now to join us for the 2012 AMM Conference, Civic Engagement and Public Discourse: The Role of st Museums in the 21 Century, July 23-26 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Indianapolis, Indiana. We’re very excited to return to Indianapolis and we’re looking forward to another outstanding conference. Indianapolis is a beautiful, pedestrian-friendly, and affordable city and we’re sure you will enjoy visiting the many fabulous museums in Indianapolis during the conference. Learn more at http://www.midwestmuseums.org/.
Help is on the Way! Guidance Program for The Illinois Collections Preservation Network and Small and Mid-Sized Museums the Illinois State Museum and its partners invite you to attend a FREE one day workshop designed to give “Having this experience was an amazing opportunity for you an introduction to preparing for and responding to our organization. Keep letting smaller museums know disasters at your institution. that MAP can work for them!” - Michelle J. Donahoe, Director, Sycamore History Museum, Illinois Attendees will participate in a hands-on salvage exercise. Consider participating in the Museum Assessment Program (MAP), which assists all types of small and mid- Presenters include Pat Miller, first responders from the size museums (e.g., aquariums, art, history, natural area, and Conservators Bronwyn Eves and Bonnie history, public gardens, science centers and zoos). While Parr. engaging in guided self study, your museum will be matched with an expert peer reviewer who will provide a Dates and Venues of the 2012 workshops: customized site visit and report. In less than a year, MAP will help you develop strategies for improved operations, March 27 McLafferty Annex--SIUC planning, staff and board education and fundraising. Carbondale
Since 1981, over 4,300 organizations have participated April 18 Douglas County Museum in MAP as a low-cost method of becoming more Tuscola sustainable. Become the next museum to take advantage of MAP. The next application deadline is December 1. May 10 Western Illinois Museum Macomb Visit www.aam-us.org/map for more information about
MAP. You can also email [email protected] or call 202- June 11 Naper Settlement Naperville 289-9118. MAP is administered by the American
Association of Museums and supported through a July 9 Freeport Art Museum cooperative agreement with the Institute of Museum and Freeport Library Services.
All workshops are 9am-3pm and lunch will be provided. Lauren Silberman
Coordinator, Museum Assessment Program JOIN the ICPN to attend the workshop: Membership is T: (202)218-7714 | F: (202)289-6578 FREE. [email protected] Contact Bronwyn Eves at (217)524-0498 or American Association of Museums [email protected]. 1575 Eye Street NW, Suite 400 | Washington DC 20005 www.aam-us.org
4 More Awards
Special Projects Competitive Awards
Award of Merit
Geneva History Center, Volunteer of the Year StoryCorps Partnership for Geneva's 175th Anniversary Lake County Discovery Museum, Wauconda, Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Historical Karen Beasley Society, Lake Forest, Timeline of Lake Forest History
Award of Excellence Professional of the Year Marengo Society for Historic Preservation, McHenry County Historical Society, Union, Marengo 175 Years, 1835-2010 Grace Moline
Dorothy Otis, Marengo
Award of Superior Achievement
Naperville Heritage Large Institution of Society/Naper the Year Settlement, Adler Planetarium, On the Road: 2011 Chicago Summer Guidebook Louise Howard & Sarah Buhlig, Naper Settlement Lifetime Volunteer Achievement Naper Settlement/Naperville Heritage Society, Public Safety Preservation Glencoe Historical Society, Project-Phase 1 Ellen Shubart (Naperville Fire Department)
Lifetime Professional Achievement Award Winnetka Historical Adler Planetarium, Chicago, Society, Paul H. Knappenberger Jr. Winnetka Story Documentary
Also given Service Awards for their long service to the IAM Board of Directors were Shari Buckellew (left), Diane Gutenkauf, Susan Whitcomb & John Newcombe, (right) and Debra Winnetka Historical Society Tayes as they left the Board. See page 6 for a list of the new Board.
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IAM Board Members in 2012
At the IAM Annual Meeting in Bloomington on Directors, Region 3: West-central Illinois October 21, 2011, there was an election of board members. Here is the list of officers and other Jim Matheis, 2013 directors, the expiration date of their term, and Abraham Lincoln Memorial Gardens the organization at which they work. Barb Wilkinson, 2014 Officers The Quincy Museum
President: David Becker, 2013 Eric Barnett, 2012 Chicago Zoological Society University Museum, SIU-E
Vice-President: Kim Stull, 2013 DuPage Children’s Museum Directors, Region 4: Northwest Illinois
Immediate Past-President: David Oberg, 2013 Mollie Perrot, 2013 Grayslake Heritage Center Ottawa Scouting Museum
Secretary: Martha Downey, 2012 Sarah Wolf, 2014 Bishop Hill State Historic Site Discovery Center Museum
Treasurer: Kate Schureman, 2012 Laura Furman, 2012 Lakeview Museum of Arts & Sciences Midway Village & Museum Center
Directors-at-Large: Directors, Region 5: Northeast Illinois
Susan M. Haake, 2014 Peggie Stromberg, 2013 Lincoln Home National Historic Site Elgin Public Museum
Matthew Toland, 2012 Leslie Goddard, 2014 Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies Morton Arboretum
Peggy Frank, 2012 Directors, Region 1: Southern Illinois Naper Settlement/Naperville Heritage Society
Mary Lou Galloway, 2013 Southern Illinois Art & Artisans Center ISM Representative: Karen Witter Claudia Dant, 2014 Wabash County Museum IHPA Representative: Karen Everingham
Sharon Bradham, 2012 Cedarhurst Center for the Arts
Directors, Region 2: East-central Illinois
Kim Sheahan, 2013 Spurlock Museum Jeff Woodward, 2013 McLean County Historical Museum
Rick Riccio, 2012 Riccio Exhibit Services IAM Members gathered at the Awards Banquet and Annual Meeting at the Chateau Hotel in Bloomington. New Directors were voted in as three Directors retired.
6 Research + Collaboration = Exhibit
Historical Research and Collaboration Foundation, (a nonprofit providing philanthropic support Leads to New Exhibit for the site), and her graduate candidacy in the historical administration program led her to explore the possibility The exhibit Enduring Legacy: The Civilian Conservation of creating an exhibit from the CCC research in order to th Corps in Coles County, 1935-1941 opened on August celebrate the 75 anniversary of the site. 27 and will remain on view through the end of May 2012. It is located in the Sargent Gallery of the Visitor With the assistance of the Alderson Internship Grant Center at the Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site. The from the American Association of State and Local Visitor Center's hours are 9-4 Wednesday through History and the support of the LSFF, we were able to Sunday. hire Maggie McAdams, also a graduate candidate in EIU’s HA program and the LSFF’s graduate assistant at Nationwide it is estimated that the Civilian Conservation the site, to assist with the remaining research and the Corps planted nearly 3 billion trees, built over 800 state production of the exhibit. Maggie headed up the design parks, paved countless miles of roadways, conserved and fabrication elements of the exhibit, collection and acres of farmland, and developed the modern principles conservation of the artifacts, as well as engaging in of environmental conservation. In Coles County the work additional research needed to tell the story of the of the CCC enrollees left a legacy of natural, cultural, genesis of the site. Maren McKee, also a graduate and historic resources. In the 75 years since the candidate in EIU’s HA program and this year’s LSFF development of Fox Ridge State Park, the Moore Home, graduate assistant, provided administrative and and Lincoln Log Cabin, these places have served to research assistance. define the community, just as community members in the 1930s had hoped. Matthew Mittelstaedt, LLCSHS site manager, provided research guidance and networked us to additional With the 75th anniversary of the dedication of Lincoln research institutions. Rick Riccio, Riccio Exhibit Log Cabin State Park, an exhibit examining the origins Services, and Larry of the site and the activities of the two Civilian Gutzler, LSFF board Conservation Corps camps located in Charleston, Illinois member, provided focuses on the themes of: collaboration and cooperation critical carpentry among the local community, the state of Illinois, and the expertise. Mattoon’s federal programs of the CCC and the National Park First Mid-Illinois Bank Service; camp life for the enrollees; and the creation of and Trust sponsored three signature sites still in existence today. the exhibit with a generous donation. We recreated a sense of the barracks with a metal bed Mentoring and (footboard) and a wooden construction intended to encouragement from invoke a sense of the barracks as seen in the enlarged the graduate faculty photos on each side of the barracks display. The in the EIU history department kept everyone motivated. uniform belonged to the man in the central picture and he was enrolled in Camp Charleston from 1939 to 1940. Local people came forward with incredible stories and That is also his CCC sweater, belt, and footlocker. We artifacts and Ruth Hawkins shared her father’s story and also have his banner that hung near his bed and his photos of teaching at the CCC camp. Christine Sawyer autograph book. shared her brother’s footlocker which housed a treasure trove of artifacts from Camp Charleston including his The other scene depicts the dedication of Lincoln Log uniform, autograph book, camp newspapers, banner, Cabin on August 27, 1936 and features the handwritten and photos. We met several CCC camp enrollees speech that Horner gave at the dedication that day. We including Dean Ferris who loaned us his photos. discovered his handwritten speech in the ALPLM Horner archives. A successful collaboration and spirit of cooperation among the local community, the state of Illinois, and the Evolution of an Exhibition federal programs of the Civilian Conservation Corp and the National Park Service resulted in the creation of Prior to the 75th anniversary of Lincoln Log Cabin State three signature sites during the Great Depression that Historic Site, Lori Henderson began research on the endure today. Learning of the commitment that the local activities of the Civilian Conservation Corps in Coles community brought to the projects in the 1930s inspires County for her graduate degree in Eastern Illinois us to call for a renewed commitment from the University’s historical administration program. Her role community to not only sustain these sites but strive to as board president of the Lincoln-Sargent Farm improve them. __ Story provided by Lori Henderson Foundation, (a nonprofit providing philanthropic support
7 Illinois is Growing Museums!
The members of the Goshen Rotary, financed and with New and Expanded Museums in 2011 a little help from the village public works department, built the new pavilion in back of the museum building. The Sterling-Rock Falls Historical Society has opened up a new museum. The Lincoln-Manahan The Pontiac-Oakland Museum & Resource Center Home Museum is located at 607 E. 3rd St. in located in Sterling. One of the oldest homes in the area, the downtown Pontiac, original part of the house was built in 1847. The home Illinois opened its is furnished as it would have been in 1856 when doors July 23, Abraham Lincoln stayed there on July 18 after 2011. It is housed speaking at a Republican rally in Sterling. Lincoln was in an historic the guest of abolitionist Sheriff William Manahan. building on the west side of the Dedicated on July 18, 2011 the home had been open cities square. by appointment until regular open hours began in Among the October, Saturday and Sunday 1-4 pm. The home will be open by appointment from November1 to April 1, building's features then regular open hours will resume. Appointments are wood floors and tin ceilings that works well to can be made by calling 815-622-6215. See more at showcase the vintage vehicles which date back to the http://www.svonline.net/~srfhs/. 1890s. This is the only museum in the country dedicated to preserving the history of the Pontiac automobile which began with a buggy in 1893 and continued The Horse and through 2010 when General Motors ended production. Buggy Museum Most visitors have memories associated with one of the in Biggsville is many models of Pontiac which once were commonly celebrating five seen on America's roads; names such as Star Chief, years of business Bonneville, Catalina, Grand Prix, GTO, Firebird and many with some more. Some of the cars are displayed in vignettes exciting new featuring period items in settings appropriate for the additions. Five car. There is a 1964 Safari station wagon in a camping new kiosks have scene, an un-restored 1924 Oakland out by the barn, a been added to the wireless network making more than 1950 Pontiac in the garage being worked on and others. 80 videos available for interactive viewing. A 60 inch LED TV has been added to the handicapped viewing theater. In addition to the many wonderful The 19th century Biggsville history display area is being vehicles on expanded. One of the new displays has over 200 display there are items of Native American Artifacts that Dave Hill, a oak display cases local farmer, had found on his farms. Other Biggsville filled with Pontiac area residents have indicated interest in displaying and Oakland th their 19 century artifacts. The museum's new web site memorabilia; is:(www.horseandbuggymuseum.com promotional items and rare one-of-a-kind historic items from the once
On October 12, venerable company. A major feature of the museum is 2011 the Glen its library which houses the largest collection of Pontiac Carbon Heritage and Oakland material in the country. With assistance Museum cut the visitors can peruse the many shop manuals, owners ceremonial ribbon manuals, dealer technical bulletins, dealer albums, for the dedication of showroom brochures, magazines and much more. their newest addition to the The museum is open seven days a week, winter hours - museum. Thanks to November through March, 10am to 4pm. Donations are a grant from the Goshen Rotary; Sheila Martin, welcome. Directors Tim & Penny Dye invite you to stop Museum Aide said, “This pavilion will allow the in for a visit. The museum website is up and running, museum to create programs outdoors to educate but not complete, www.pontiacoaklandmuseum.org . visitors to how Glen Carbon came into being.
8 Illinois is Growing Museums!
National Hellenic Museum Opens Innovation (the history of the DEKALB Agricultural New Building Association, Inc); and Agricultural Innovations of Northern Illinois, where visitors will learn about The four-story, important agricultural inventions. 40,000-square- foot National The Children’s Discovery Museum in Normal Illinois Hellenic opened the new Water Works exhibit in September. Museum, 333 S. This new water play exhibit is the first phase of a Halsted, Chicago, renewable energy project that will include creative and opens to the public hands-on exhibit experiences with solar, wind and with a soft opening hydro power. on Nov. 8 and a grand opening on Dec. 8 in a space that is contemporary, but timeless. Below are details about The Cedarville Area Historical Society has the building, the green elements/LEED-certification purchased for one dollar the 112-year-old former village process and the Museum’s principal designer Demetrios hall and jail from the current village board of Stavrianos. It features interactive permanent exhibits, trustees. The small limestone building served as the high-profile traveling exhibits, a children’s education rent-free home of the Cedarville Museum from 1976 center, research library, oral history center, rooftop until eight years ago when the society paid the village terrace, museum gift store and special events hall. The one dollar for its Museum is constructed with natural limestone and glass, current home, the materials that respond to the artistic and technological abandoned, two-story traditions Greeks have experienced from the Classical brick 1889 village Age to the modern day. Visit school. Records nationalhellenicmuseum.org. show that on August 7, 1890, John Oswalt of Klehm Arboretum & Botanic Garden in Rockford, Cedarville, probably Illinois, will introduce its new Interpretive Signage and the general contractor, Trail Guides in the spring of 2012. These materials will was paid $148.96 for enable visitors to better understand the significance and his work in "building value of our 155 acre collection of exotic and rare trees. council rooms and This project is made possible through a grant from the calabose". Illinois Department of Natural Resources. The DeMoulin Museum in Greenville, Illinois has The Polish Museum of America begun an interior renovation of their building. In (PMA), 984 N. Milwaukee (60642), October, the American Legion Post 282 donated the Chicago, Tel 773-384-3352, Hours, building to the museum board, which had been renting F – W 11-4, visit: the building since opening in 2010. Upon completion in www.polishmuseumofamerica.org the spring of 2012, the DeMoulin Museum will have a brighter, more modern look. The museum is dedicated The PMA proudly announces the to the founders, employees, and unique products opening of The Stephen and created by the DeMoulin Bros. factory. The company Elizabeth Ann Kusmierczak Art began in 1892 as a manufacturer of lodge initiation Gallery presenting a permanent devices and regalia. The Ethnic Heritage Museum in exhibition of a world-class Interwar Rockford Period art, including the Art Deco broke ground paintings, sculptures, prints, and on a new handicraft arts originally shown at addition on the New York World’s Fair Polish Pavilion in 1939-1940. November 18, 2011. Their six The DeKalb Area Agricultural Heritage Association, current Inc. (DAAHA) has a new space at 111 Second Street, galleries Suite 204, DeKalb, Il 60115. DAAHA is dedicated to represent the ethnic groups that settled in southwest collecting, preserving, and sharing the storied history of Rockford: African American, Hispanic, Irish, Italian, agriculture in northern Illinois. Beginning in January, we Lithuanian and Polish. This addition will help their will have three exhibits on display. Sprouts, a exhibit for galleries reach out with more education opportunities children exploring modern agriculture and the local for the community neighbors as well as the school, economy; DEKALB Ag: 100 Years of Agricultural scouting and tour groups that visit.
9 Regional News from Your IAM Members
IAM Region 1: Performing and painting the room and entrance Southern Illinois_____ Arts area to it. Mary Lou Galloway of the Programs, A second major event was the Illinois State Museum’s Washington, setting up of the River Room to make Southern Illinois Art and D.C. for a a special location to display artifacts Artisans Center in three year connected with the Mississippi River Whittington and Sharon period. and its role in the history and life of Bradham, director of the the citizens in the Nauvoo area. Don Cedarhurst Center for the Arts Mrs. T. in Griffiths and Dean Gabbert were the in Mt. Vernon have joined the Wine Silk by driving force in getting together Illinois Association of one of people and funds to gather artifacts Museums Board of Director as America’s and workers to get this room set up representatives of Region leading for proper display. One. portraitists, George Bellows, will be part of an exhibition at the National IAM Region 4: Gallery November 12 through Northwest Illinois______IAM Region 2: February 13, 2012. While East-Central Illinois__ Cedarhurst is proud to have a The Sterling-Rock Falls Historical painting in this prestigious museum, The Visitor Center Natural History Society has opened a new Room at Kennekuk County Park in for the first time Cedarhurst museum. The Lincoln-Manahan will borrow one in return! The Home Museum is located at 607 E. Danville, IL, thanks to a grant from rd the Herr Foundation, has cast tree National Gallery of Art will loan The 3 St. in Sterling. One of the oldest trunks to cover existing posts in Chaperone by Thomas Eakins to homes in the area, the original part Cedarhurst from June 1 to October front of the woodland waterfall of the house was built in 1847. The scene. The 2 trunks were cast from 31, 2012. Our permanent collection home is furnished as it would have native black and white oaks at at Cedarhurst features three works been in 1856 when Abraham Lincoln Forest Glen Preserve. For more by Eakins. stayed there on July 18 after speaking at a Republican rally in information call 217-442-1691 or IAM Region 3: visit us at the Vermilion County Sterling. Lincoln was the guest of West-Central Illinois____ Conservation District abolitionist Sheriff William Manahan. www.vccd.org. New educational exhibits, fresh field Dedicated on July 18, 2011 the
trip topics and plain, old positive home had been open by Taylor Studios of Rantoul was word-of-mouth helped The appointment until regular open hours awarded two NAI Media Awards Children’s Museum at began in October, Saturday and organized by the National Edwardsville serve a record number Sunday 1-4 pm. The home will be Association for Interpretation to of visitors during the last year. More open by appointment from “promote excellence in the delivery than 12,000 people came to the November1 to April 1, then regular of natural, cultural, and historical playful education destination, open hours will resume. non-personal interpretive services.” surpassing the old record by nearly Taylor Studios’ Wisdom of the Wild 1,000. The Klehm Arboretum & Botanic exhibit for Killens Pond State Park Garden launches a new program. in Felton, DE, won in the Interior The Nauvoo Historical Society has The goal the Community Trees Exhibit category and Explore Your been finalizing their arrangement Program (CTP) is to share a vision of Great Swamp National Wildlife with the Baxter/Snyder families a sustainable community sheltered Refuge touch-screen interactive for enabling NHS to be the primary by a vibrant canopy of diverse, Great Swamp National Wildlife Nauvoo source of Nauvoo Icarian enduring trees to enhance the quality Refuge in Basking Ridge, NJ, won history information. They now have of life in the Rockford region. in the Web/Multimedia category. an entire room in the Weld house set Edith Makra, the Community Trees up to display the Icarian artifacts, Advocate, joins the staff. Makra many of them originating from Lillian The Mitchell Museum at previously headed the Community Snyder’s collection. They are Cedarhurst Center for the Arts in Trees Program for The Morton indebted to Bob Baxter for his Mt. Vernon, IL. A major painting Arboretum in Lisle, IL and launched contribution of artifacts, funds, and from the Mitchell collection at former Mayor Richard M. Daley's many hours spent in cleaning, Cedarhurst will be loaned to the enduring city tree program in restoring, and locating the artifacts National Gallery of Art in Chicago and in helping with the remodeling 10 Regional News from Your IAM Members
She began her career at the top of the loan and the painting will be on ladder - climbing trees as an arborist, display October 19, 2011 through but has spent the last two decades April 15, 2012 at the Palais Eskeles, advocating for trees. Makra led the Vienna, Austria. state's planning for the invasive ash tree-killing Emerald Ash Borer, which The McHenry County Historical poses a severe threat to Rockford's Society is pleased to announce that community forest. it received a grant of $2,500.00 from final offering collected in June 2010 Four key civic partners are lending the Minno and Carol Halma Family at the congregation’s last service, support to the Community Trees Fund of the McHenry County heritage association funds from this Program: the Winnebago County Community Foundation. The year’s annual commemorative crock Forest Preserve District, Rockford money will be used to initiate a fundraiser and the annual donation Park District, Winnebago County and school transportation grant pilot by the Quilters’ Dozen Quilt Club the City of Rockford. program. Rising costs in bus from their PrairieFest Quilt Raffle, transportation have resulted in These agencies have each pledged and from grants from former church decreased numbers of school tours collaboration and $10,000 annually for members. at the Society's local history three years to support the Community museum. Discovery Center Museum, Trees Program. In addition, the Rockford, has been awarded a grant Community Foundation of Northern of $5,000 by the Community Needs Illinois is partnering to build an The DuPage Children's Museum Fund of the Community Foundation endowment fund for the Community and Tellabs Foundation announced of Northern Illinois, which they will Trees Program. Klehm and the a $100,000 grant that will help use to buy a new van for outreach of partners have set a fund-raising goal launch a new exhibit based on the their science programs. of $500,000 to allow the program to scientific principles of energy. The make a lasting impact on the quality exhibit is targeted to open in the of life in the Rockford region. IAM Region 5: Museum in 2015. Northeast Illinois______A major project completed this month This summer the Reserve Officers The Robert R. McCormick Museum Association gave the Pritzker by Oswego's Little White School was listed on the Wheaton Register Museum was the conservation and Military Library a collection o