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Events
Check out our current exhibits!
Memoirs of German Immigrant Due for Release
Late May, 2013
Columbia Research Center
Longer Than a Man’s Lifetime in Missouri, by Gert Goebel, edited and with an introduction by Walter D. Kamphoefner and Adolf E. Schroeder, is available for pre-order through the Society and is scheduled for release late this month. Published in partnership with the Brush and Palette Club of Hermann, the book is a translation by Adolf E. Schroeder and Elsa Louise Nagel of Goebel’s original 1877 German edition titled Länger als ein Menschenleben in Missouri.
Goebel emigrated in 1834 from Coburg, Germany, to Franklin County, where he became a farmer, county surveyor, and state legislator and enrolled for military service in the county’s Home Guard. His memoir offers remarkable descriptions of German settlement in Missouri up to the 1870s, as well as commentary on politics and Civil War events within the state. Goebel’s narrative is illuminated and enhanced by the editors’ extensive annotations.
Reconstructing Bingham’s Order No. 11
May 21, 2013
Boone County Historical Society (BCHS)
Drawing enlightenment from James J. Froese’s painting, SHSMO Art Curator Joan Stack is “Reconstructing Bingham’s Order No. 11: (Or How Thomas H. Benton, Abraham Lincoln and James J. Froese Help Us Rethink Missouri’s Most Iconic Civil War Painting).”
Share in her findings at a lecture presented in conjunction with the Mid-Missouri Civil War Round Table and the BCHS’s retrospective exhibition: In Memory of James J. Froese (Aug 1936 - May 2012) - The Life Works of Captain Jim Redwing River Walker Froese, running May 10-June 30.
Kenneth E. Behring National History Day Contest
June 9 - 13, 2013
University of Maryland-College Park
Fifty-six Missouri students representing the best of the best from more than 2,500 participants across the state will showcase their research into the “Turning Points in History: People, Ideas, Events” in the hopes of winning a national award.
KWOS “Open Air” 950 AM
June 17, 2013
8:20 to 9:00 a.m.
Join the conversation with hosts John Marsh and Warren Krech as they visit with SHSMO Director Gary R. Kremer.
Close-up on Photo Collections: Care & Management
June 22, 2013
10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Columbia Research Center
Overwhelmed by your photograph collections or looking for easy tips on preservation? Manuscript specialist Anne Cox will provide an introduction to caring for photographs. Topics include collection management, organization and storage, description, basic preservation, and dealing with digital images.
This class is suitable for caretakers of historic photograph collections, or those who want to learn how to best keep their contemporary photographs for future generations.
Sign up soon at 573.882.7083 as the session is limited to twenty people; final deadline is June 14. Cost is just $15 for members and $25 for nonmembers; the workshop fee includes a boxed lunch.
KWOS “Open Air” 950 AM
July 15, 2013
8:20 to 9:00 a.m.
Join the conversation with hosts John Marsh and Warren Krech as they visit with SHSMO Director Gary R. Kremer.
KWOS “Open Air” 950 AM
August 19, 2013
8:20 to 9:00 a.m.
Join the conversation with hosts John Marsh and Warren Krech as they visit with SHSMO Director Gary R. Kremer.
