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2011 GALLERY SPECIAL EXHIBITS
Pre-1940 Recipes Needed for 2011 Gallery Exhibit
WANTED: Handwritten pre-1940 recipes. The Museum Gallery staff are planning a special exhibit relating to food preparation in earlier days. IMHGS members and friends are invited to share handwritten family recipes from before 1940 with permission to copy them in a book or booklet. As always, the time, place and person or family associations, when known, and stories or comments would add much value to the recipes. Please consider sharing your family's old recipes, in English or other language, and memories of them!
For more information please call 309-367-2551 or send an e-mail to imhcmtco.com.
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Growing Corn: Early Tools and Equipment This exhibit includes more than one hundred hand corn planters plus husking pegs and related equipment used by pioneers. From the collection of Ted Sommer.
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2011 Spring Program Saturday, April 16, 10:00 a.m. Our Speaker: Jan Gleysteen
The Hutterite Story
The Hutterite story begins in south Tirol (now northern Italy) and continues through Moravia, Transylvania, South Russia, migration to America in 1874, all the way to today's colonies in the American and Canadian west. Recommended reading: The Golden Years of the Hutterites by Leonard Gross (Herald Press, 1980, republished by Pandora Press, 1998.)
Jan Gleysteen has given over half a century of service to the Anabaptist family of churches. His life work reflects his wide interests and talents. He has worked in illustration, book design, typography, calligraphy, and as an editor, columnist, and design consultant. He has been a contributing editor and board member of Mennonite Weekly Review.
Gleysteen co-founded TourMagination and conducted tours to Europe and other areas of Anabaptist interest, all with a strong emphasis on the Mennonite faith story. He saw TourMagination as a "teaching ministry with a distinct Anabaptist/Mennonite emphasis."
In 1969 he teamed with Mennonite writer and filmmaker John L. Ruth on the first of many research trips to document, pictorially, Anabaptist-Mennonite history, life and thought. He has been a traveling lecturer on Mennonite and Anabaptist history since 1967. Two of his published works are The Drama of the Martyrs (1975) and Mennonite Tourguide to Western Europe (1984) . He is also an environmentalist, a train lover and a humorist.
In 2009 Goshen College Library Gallery presented "Jan Gleysteen: Life Work". The show featured his pen-and-ink drawings, watercolor and oil paintings, calligraphy, book designs, model trains and documentary photography. At the the exhibit opening, his half-century of service as denominational "heritage keeper" to the Anabaptist family of churches was celebrated. The exhibit is now in Harleysville, Pennsylvania.
In sharing his concerns for the future of the faith, Gleysteen has asked:
"Who are the traveling minstrels of today, going about to proclaim the church as a community committed to peace and justice, and to make sure that the great-grandchildren of our courageous ancestors don't trade their rich spiritual heritage for a mess of popular evangelical potage?"
The world, he feels, needs our call to discipleship Christianity now more than ever.
In all his presentations, Gleysteen has tried to introduce the concept of discipleship Christianity, the principle of placing all of life under the Lordship of Christ.
The program will take place after an IMHGS Business Meeting. Following the program a light lunch will be offered. ******************** Collections Intern Sought IMHGS is currently taking applications for a collections intern. Responsibilities for the position include completing a comprehensive inventory of all collections, updating accession records and cataloging a database, and preparing reports to aid museum committee in completing collection development plans to aid in interpretive master planning. Qualifications: Must have completed college level coursework in museum studies, history, archival methodology or related field , and be pursuing a career in a related area. Desired: Graduate level coursework in collections care, familiarity with Past Perfect museum software. Responsibilities:
For a complete Collections Internship Description and an application form, please contact us by phone at 309-367-2551 or via e-mail at imhcmtco.com.
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