Program
Speaker Virginia Weygandt
Care of Fabrics: Ideas for Conserving Quilts, Historic Garments, Family Handwork and Treasured Fabrics
2:00 p.m. in the Yellow Springs Senior Center Great Room

Virginia Weygandt, senior curator of collections at the Clark County Historical Society, will present "Care of Fabrics: Ideas for Conserving Quilts, Historic Garments, Family Handwork and Treasured Fabrics" on Sunday, February 20, from 2:00 until 4:00 p.m. at the Yellow Springs Senior Center. Ms. Weygandt has wide experience in this area and is a popular presenter. There will be a display of local artists' hand-created works. Attendees are invited to bring their own articles to be displayed or used as part of the discussion.

The gathering is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. For more information, call 767-7516.

February 20, 2005

Program
Presenter: Dotty Limbaugh
"Fun in the Cemetery"
2:00 p.m. , Senior Citizens Center Great Room

"Longtime Cemetery Nut" presents amusing epitaphs, gravestone rubbings, photographs and more.

Book-Signing Program
Author: Megan Marshall
The Peabody Sisters : Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism
7:30 - 9:30 p.m. , Herndon Gallery, South Hall, Antioch College

Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody were in many ways our American Brontes. The story of these remarkable sisters — and their central role in shaping the thinking of their day — has never before been fully told. Twenty years in the making, Megan Marshall's monumental biograpy brings the era of creative ferment known as American Romanticism to new life. Elizabeth, the oldest sister, was a mind-on-fire thinker. A powerful influence on the great writers of the era — Emerson, Hawthorne, and Thoreau among them — she also published some of their earliest works. It was Elizabeth who prodded these newly minted Transcendentalists away from Emerson's individualism and toward a greater connection to others. Mary was a determined and passionate reformer who finally found her soul mate in the great educator Horace Mann. The frail Sophia was a painter who won the admiration of the preeminent society artists of the day. She married Nathaniel Hawthorne — but not before Hawthorne threw the delicate dynamics among the sisters into disarray. Marshall focuses on the moment when the Peabody sisters made their indelible mark on history. Her unprecedented research into these lives uncovered thousands of letters never read before as well as other previously unmined original sources. The Peabody Sisters casts new light on a legendary American era. Its publication is destined to become an event in American biography.

 

Yellow Springs Street Fair
9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.
Look for the Historical Society Booth

Program
Glen Forest Cemetery Tour
3:00 p.m., starting from the Cemetery Street entrance.

Stroll through the cemetery with costumed guide Pam Adams who will present a brief history of the people whose graves are featured. Costumed docents will be there so you can "meet" some of the folks from Yellow Springs' past.

Historical Society members FREE. Others, $3.00 donation requested. NOT accessible to wheelchairs or strollers.

Program
Walking Tour of Clifton
2:00 p.m.

Pam Adams continues her exploration of our nearest neighbor (and sometime rival), home to the Clifton Mill.

Program
Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad
Author Ann Hagedorn and musician Allen      Schwartz
7:00 p.m., Mills Lawn School Gymnasium

Program
Goes Boom!
David Neuhardt
2:00 p.m., Yellow Springs Senior Center

Have you ever wondered about that brick industrial building alongside the Little Miami bike path in Goes? Dave Neuhardt, President of the Yellow Springs Historical Society, will use historic photographs and maps to tell the sometimes explosive 80-year saga of gunpowder-making along the Little Miami River in Goes Station, Ohio. Learn a little bit about the art of making black powder (don't try this in your kitchen!) and the extremely dangerous work of the powder makers who faced the very real and constant threat of being blown to bits by a stray spark or flame. Your own stories or pictures of the powder mill are welcomed.

1:00 until 4:00 p.m.
Yellow Springs Historical Society Museum (the "Gaunt House")
131 North Walnut Street

Celebrate the 112th Anniversary of Wheeling Gaunt's flour (and sugar) distribution with Christmas tea and cookies and music from the Victrola.

     "During the past week, the committee appointed for the purpose distributed sixty-nine sacks of flour to the poor widows of the town under a provision in the will of the late Wheeling Gaunt...By setting aside a certain amount of his property the proceeds of which goes to this widows fund to be distributed each Christmas, he has so fixed his generosity in the minds of the people that he will always be kindly remembered.
     "Over in Glen Forest Cemetery7, the quiet city of our dead, stands a very pretty monument which marks the last resting place of this good man, but here in our village of living people, in the hearts of our citizens is planted a monument of gratitude more lasting than the marble slab."
     Yellow Springs Torch, December 28, 1894

PDF of Research on Wheeling Gaunt

Saturdays

Yellow Springs Historical Society Museum

1:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m., 131 Walnut Street, Yellow Springs

Artifacts of Yellow Springs area history. The Yellow Springs Historical Society is always eager for donations or loans of items from which to develop museum exhibits and is grateful to those who have already provided artifacts.