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« Sunday May 31, 2009 »
Sun
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm

The grand opening festivities will include presentations by city officials and community leaders.

In addition, guided tours, family activities, and group demonstrations will be held throughout the afternoon.

Admission:

  • $5/person
  • Free for Kids 14 and under

Journey Stories Exhibit:

Journey Stories tells how we and our ancestors came to America. From Native Americans to new American citizens and regardless of our ethnic or racial background, everyone has a story to tell.

Our history is filled with stories of people leaving behind everything - families and possessions - to reach a new life in another state, across the continent, or even across an ocean.

Many chose to move, searching for something better in a new land. Others had no choice, like enslaved Africans captured and relocated to a strange land and bravely asserting their own cultures, or like Native Americans already here, who were often violently removed by newcomers.

Start: 4:00 pm
A Road Scholar Program by Dennis Stroughmatt

The first European culture to establish roots in Illinois, French Creoles along the Illinois, Wabash, and Mississippi Rivers would in many places be supplanted by later Anglo and German American settlers. Instrumental in winning Illinois for the United States during the American Revolution and important to the success of the Lewis and Clark expedition, Illinois Creoles have a strong cultural history that opens a door to their effect in the Midwest. This presentation will explore what brought the French here, their fiddle music, a few of their exploits, and their lasting influence on the Illinois Country.

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