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Visit the Peru Public Library during 'The Way We Worked' exhibition to discover the way Peru worked.
Take advantage of this opportunity to explore a portion of the Peru Library's local history collection.
Items of interest include\: bricks from Star Union Brewery\, receipts from area bakeries\, a hotel register\, local business cards\, and other items.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20120525T180524Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T010000Z UID:http://www.prairie.org/events/25110/small-town-heritage-life-illinois-communities-1870-1920 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.prairie.org/events/25110/small-town-heritage-life-illinois-communities-1870-1920 SUMMARY:Small-Town Heritage\: Life in Illinois Communities\, 1870-1920 DESCRIPTION:A Road Scholar Program by John Hallwas
A fascinating look at the Illinois small town from the post-Civil War period through World War I\; when most of the state's more than 1\,000 small communities flourished. Employing dozens of slides\, John Hallwas discusses prairie\, woodland\, and river environments\, townscapes and transportation\, business activities\, and social life during the fifty-year period when small Illinois towns were thriving economic centers\, as well as deeply meaningful places for local residents.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20120525T180524Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120526T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120526T230000Z UID:http://www.prairie.org/events/25213/digitization-workshop-local-heritaged-online-age-broadband URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.prairie.org/events/25213/digitization-workshop-local-heritaged-online-age-broadband SUMMARY:Digitization Workshop\: Local Heritaged Online in the Age of Broadband DESCRIPTION:Digital representation is fast becoming the norm as the information society continues to develop. In community history digitization everyone's stories can be included\, and everyone can do something to help build community memory online.
Join us for this hands-on Workshop on Community History Digitization. Community history digitization projects are focused on representing community memory online. Participants are encouraged to bring with them something they would like to digitize. Items to digitize could include school yearbooks\, cherished recipes\, family histories\, oral histories\, information on historic buildings\, church histories\, the history of local government\, and much\, much more! These projects could be small\, such as digitizing the story of a single family\, or huge\, such as digitizing all the yearbooks of a given high school. This workshop provides practical advice for projects of all types\, whether you are trying to get something together for a family or school reunion\, a church anniversary\, or for the city as a whole. Our teaching tool is developed based on two years of on-the-ground experience in Champaign-Urbana\, Illinois.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20120525T180524Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120526T190000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120526T220000Z UID:http://www.prairie.org/events/25737/2012-odyssey-project-graduation-ceremony-chicago URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.prairie.org/events/25737/2012-odyssey-project-graduation-ceremony-chicago SUMMARY:2012 Odyssey Project Graduation Ceremony - Chicago DESCRIPTION:![\\"\\"](\\"http\://www.prairie.org/files/ihc/images/ODYSPROJ.img_assist_custom-80x93.JPG\\" "\\\"\\\"")
Join the Illinois Humanities Council (IHC) as we celebrate the achievement of the 2012 Odyssey Project participants from all four Odyssey courses in Chicago\: North Side\, South Side\, Spanish language\, and the Bridge Course.
Deputy Commissioner of Arts Programming at the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs Angel Ysaguirre will give the keynote address.
The Odyssey Project is a free\, eight-month program of college-level humanities courses for people living in poverty. Students in the class of 2012 took classes from September through May at the AKArama Center in the Woodlawn neighborhood on the South Side\, the Howard Area Community Center in Rogers Park on the North Side\, the IHC office in downtown Chicago\, and in Spanish at the Gads Hill Center in the Pilsen neighborhood.
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