Program
Speakers: Greg Schauer, David Neuhardt,
Steve Deal and Nancy Noonan
Stories Your House Can Tell
2:00 p.m. in the Yellow Springs Senior Center Great Room

Speakers share their experiences in researching the history of
D. Pennell House, Whitehall, Wheeling Gaunt House and Dr.
Taylor House. Audience members are encouraged to share
their own "house tales."

The gathering is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

March 26, 2006

Program
Presenters: Steven Deal and Cindy Mucher
"Vanished Village Scavenger Hunt "
1:00 p.m. Yellow Springs Historical Society Museum,
     Wheeling Gaunt House, 131 North Walnut Street

See historical Yellow Springs in a new way, as you search for
selected historical locales and architectural details. Bring
your children and grandchildren.

Program
Speaker: Gillian Marsham Hill, Records and Information Manager/Archivist for Greene County
Treasures of the Greene County Archives
2:00 p.m. in the Yellow Springs Senior Center Great Room

Learn what's available to assist in researching both houses
and genealogy.

 

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

Historic Grinnell Mill Special Meeting
1:00 until 2:30 p.m.
Please join us Sunday, July 23, for a special planning session focusing on the future use of the historic Grinnell Mill.

Preservation of the Mill structure is nearing completion and input is needed how best to manage the future use of the mill. Ideas for its use and a management committee for its operation are needed. We are looking for volunteers to help guide its future and permanence in history, but whether or not you wish to join the steering committee, if you are curious about the Mill and think its preservation matters, you are welcome to give us suggestions.

The meeting will be held at the Mill and will be facilitated by Fred Bartenstein. Light refreshments will be served. Please join us with your enthusiasm, your energy and your ideas.

Program
Historic Walking Tour of Antioch College
2:00 p.m., starting location front steps of Weston Hall

Yellow Springs Historical Society VP and Antiochiana archivist/raconteur Scott Sanders will lead a rediscovery tour of historic Antioch College, starting from site of the home built especially for first president Horace Mann. Parking: there's some street parking there, and the nearest most available lot is on Livermore Street by the Student Union. Additional parking is behind the library and a gravel lot at Limestone and Corry. Wear comfortable shoes.

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

Instruction
Free Pre-Ball Dance Lessons
7:00 until 9:00 p.m., Bryan Center

Dance Master Rick Rutan will teach interested individuals
the basics of historical dances in preparation for the Costume Ball at Whitehall on October 21. You need not have a partner to dance these dances. Women may dance both roles and so may men. No charge.

Program
The Ball at Whitehall returns!
8:00 until 11:00 p.m., Whitehall Farm

Guests are strongly encouraged to come in costumes circa 1850-1950 to enjoy a splendid cotillion band under the direction of Ray Foster, learn period dancing and sample a light repast. The Cemetery Street lot will provide parking space with transportation to and from Whitehall done by horse-drawn wagon.

Cost per person (with a portion tax-deductible) $35 members/$40 non-members.

For more information: Peggy Erskine (767-7856) or Nancy Noonan ( 767-7773)

Celebration
Wheeling Gaunt Commemorative Tea
1:00 until 4:00 p.m., Gaunt House, 131 North Walnut Street

In recognition of Wheeling Gaunt's Christmas legacy of flour and sugar to the "worthy widows" of Yellow Springs, there will be a tea at the house where Gaunt is presumed to have lived. Enjoy tea and cookies, the distinctive music of the Victrola and a reading of the Wheeling Gaunt story at 2:00 p.m. Each attendee will receive a copy of the poem "In Horse and Buggy Days."

Saturdays

Yellow Springs Historical Society Museum
Wheeling Gaunt House

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. Click here for a PDF of the current inventory of artifacts.

(Not recommended for dial-up connections) click here for a PDF or here for a PowerPoint presentation of the research done on the history of the museum itself (the Wheeling Gaunt House) prepared by the owner for the March 26, 2006 program.