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GALLERY SPECIAL EXHIBITS
"Remember Me"
IMHC's 2010 Quilt Display opens July 2, 2010.
The Friendship Quilt Exhibit includes a wide variety of quilts spanning over a century of Friendship quilts. A friendship quilt was made for a recipient, often for a special occasion such as marriage or leaving the community, by a group of friends who include their names or clues to their identity on their blocks.
One quilt welcomes a bride to her husband's community; another shows 240 names. All include stories of relationships and community. Twelve different Illinois locations and two other states are represented.
We thank members and friends who loaned half of the quilts for this exhibit. Included is "Lizzie's Friendship Coverlet", which was covered in the lead article of IMH Quarterly Spring 2010 issue. The quilt from Hopedale reported discovered in 2007 in Pennsylvania is shown as well.
The exhibit will run through October 31.
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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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Schrock Day Notes
Thanks to everyone who helped to make Schrock Immigrant Day a success! In particular we want to thank the planning committee: Bob Belsly, Frank Kandel, Kathy Martin, Don Schrock and especially Chair Donna Birkey. You gave us a wonderful program! Thanks also to everyone who attended the event - your presence made the day extra special. I hope each of you enjoyed this opportunity to learn a little more about your family tree, the struggles, tragedies, and triumphs of your ancestors, and the chance to get to know your Schrock cousins a little better. We enjoyed hosting you!
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2010 Fall Program Saturday, October 30 Our Speaker: Gerlof Homan
Escape to Australia: A Jewish-Mennonite Family's Flight to Down Under, 1938-41
Much of Mennonite History is the story of migrations in search of lands where Mennonites, and also the Hutterites, could worship in peace. They fled to North and South America, but no one ever went to Australia. This flight story also includes a brief discussion of the Holocaust, when the Nazis tried to exterminate the Jews, and of anti-Semitism in other parts of the world. Gerlof will share some of his unique research challenges while pursuing very elusive historical evidence. The program will take place immediately after the IMHGS Annual Business Meeting. Following the program we will offer a light lunch.
Gerlof Homan is professor emeritus at Illinois State University, where he taught European, Contemporary, World, and Peace History. He was born in Appingedam, the Netherlands in 1929 and emigrated to the United States in 1952. Gerlof graduated from Bethel College in N. Newton, Kansas and received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Kansas in 1958. His publications include American Mennonites and the Great War, 1914-1918, which was published in 1994. Gerlof and his wife Roelie are longtime members of IMHGS, and he has contributed numerous articles the the Illinois Mennonite Heritage Quarterly. He is currently serving on its editorial committee.
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