Wild Hare Cafe
Horsefeathers
(vintage shoppe) |
Horsefeathers Antique & Gift Shoppe & Wildhare Cafe Lecture Series |
Elkhart Historical Society |
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WWI historian Paul Osman of Williamsville gave a
stirring talk at the dedication of the Veteran’s
Park in Elkhart.. Osman’s knowledge not only of
the war, but also of members of the Elkhart
community who served in it. Osman had just
returned from his 11th trip to the Western Front
in France and Belgium. During this recent trip,
he visited the battlefields and graves of
several Elkhart WWI soldiers.
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 Jim Grimaldi went to France to honor the memory of the paratroopers who jumped into France on D-Day hours before the main landing on the beaches of Normandy. |
 Paul Beaver: William Scully & the Scully estates of Logan County, Illinois
Scully began to drain his Illinois prairie
land around 1870, using big open ditches - the
first to use a drainage system in Logan County,
allowing Scully's tenant farmers to get into
their fields two weeks earlier than the other
farmers as a result. |
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1880’s Henry Pitcher & Sons Pipe Organ that |
20,000-year-old mammoth tusk and
tooth found north of Lincoln |
Scully began to drain his Illinois prairie land |
Wildhare owner's former residence: Cape Town, South Africa |
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| Rothering discusses bird banding & the significance of a high biodiverse "island" (oasis) to migrating birds |
The devastation caused by the emerald ash borer (EAB) in most ash trees |
"From War’s Ashes to the Birth of Lincoln College”
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Paul Beaver gives insight to the founding of Lincoln College |
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As portrayed by Joe Woodard, Abraham Lincoln
rides down the historic Edwards Trace on Elkhart Hill
Catholic chaplains in all Irish regiments
during the Civil War
in mid/late1800's in Central Il.
Lincoln College’s Dr. G. Dennis Campbell Creekside
Outdoor Center for Environmental Education
Scully began to drain his Illinois prairie land
around 1870, using big open ditches similar
to the type he was familiar with in Ireland.
Karl Luthin, a screen reenactor: “Gods
and Generals”, “Glory”, The “John Adams”,
“Into the West”, mini-series, “Gettysburg”,
“Cold Mountain”, “Lincoln”
"From War’s Ashes
to the Birth of Lincoln College"
Forty customers enjoyed the tasty hometown cuisine
and
Beaver's talk and PowerPoint presentation, which
revealed some of the topics covered in his recent
book,
presenting Abraham Lincoln's work as a
central
Illinois surveyor, lawyer and politician.