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Make sure to keep an eye out for our future editions, and we sincerely hope that our members enjoy each and every issue!

Welcome to the first

edition of the Clark County Historical Society Newslet-ter. We will be making an effort to produce this news-letter in full or in part for each month of the year, so make sure you look for it!

Member Amelia Stone of Marshall has agreed to edit and produce this newslet-ter, free of charge to the Society! Make sure that if you have any contributions you’d like to add, or sug-gestions for stories or es-says, please let our editor know!

We would like this newslet-ter to become a format for our members to not only keep up on current (and

past) events, but we’d also like it to be a place where members can expand on their knowledge of the his-tory of Clark County and its communities. We would encourage any and all mem-bers to contribute items that can be published in the

NEW NEWSLETTER FOR SOCIETY MEMBERS !

The next monthly meeting of the Clark County His-torical Society will be held on April 2, 2009 at 6:00 PM at the Clarksville Res-taurant. On the agenda, Vice President Edie Brene-man will introduce events that will be upcoming for this year.

The May meeting will be held on May 14th at the Historical Society’s Mu-seum grounds at 6:00 PM, and will feature a program by John Goldsmith. We will also be joined by mem-bers of the Casey Historical Society.

CLARK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

APRIL 1, 2009 VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1

NEWSLETTER

2009 OFFICERS :

PRESIDENT—

CHARLIE GAMM

VICE-

PRESIDENT—

EDIE BRENEMAN

TREASURER—

WAYNE EVANS

SECRETARY—

TERRY L ITTERAL

PLEASE DON ’T HESITATE

TO CONTACT YOUR

OFFICERS IF YOU HAVE

CONCERNS , IDEAS ,

PROBLEMS OR EXPENSES .

THEY ARE HERE FOR

YOU !

2009 Board Members

Carolyn Connelly

Dwight Connelly

Marge Fields

Bill Fields

Deborah Black

Gene Marrs

Chuck Freeman

Joan Gamm

Evelyn Hutson

UPCOMING MEETINGS MUSEUM OPENINGS

The Clark County Historical Society Museum will begin opening again every Sunday from 2-4 PM, from May 3rd until September 27th. Vice President Edie Breneman will have sign-up sheets for docents/tour guides at the April Meeting. Please be sure to sign up!

The year 2009 is the 200th anniversary of the birth of our 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. In

an effort to expand on the celebratory nature of the year, the Clark County His-torical Society has created a committee to assist in the county’s planning. Society Members Charlie Gamm, Edie Breneman, Eleanor Macke and Amelia Stone have been working diligently with the City of Marshall Bicenten-nial Committee to coordinate events celebrating this mo-mentous man in our his-tory—a man who walked these streets and traveled our

roads during his circuit through the districts as a young attorney. The com-mittee would like to extend its thanks to the members who have contributed ideas toward the year-long planning that has been undertaken. The committee would also like to encourage members to contribute to these events, either as presenters, contribu-tors, assistants, or as specta-tors.

longed to the Handy Colony here in Marshall, composed one other work entitled A Legacy of Love, published in 1958. In Some Must Watch, Richard Colby, son of a small-town lawyer, returns home to Salsbury, Illinois, for the summer following his fresh-man year in college. Richard suffers no great traumas of read-justment nor recognizes any astounding revelations concern-ing family or hometown as a

On March 19, 2009, the Clark County Historical Society spon-sored a table at the annual tables-capes event at the Marshall Pub-lic Library. Historical Society Members Edie Breneman, Ge-neva Evans, Patty Marrs, Caro-lyn Connelly and Amelia Stone all came together for this event and coordinated a table that was centered around the book Some Must Watch by Edwin Daly. Edwin Daly, a writer who be-

result of his year away from home, but spends an average, carefree summer, only slightly marred by the awareness of his father's excessive drinking. Rich-ard's summer and his adoles-cence end abruptly with the suicide of his father shortly be-fore the boy is scheduled to re-turn to college. The fictional town of Salsbury is Marshall, Illinois, where the author grew up in the 1950s.

A YEAR TO CELEBRATE L INCOLN

TABLESCAPES 2009: SOME MUST WATCH

L INCOLN BICENTENNIAL DATES TO REMEMBER week.

June —Clark County Historical Society to display exhibits in museum and down-town

June 19 or 26—”Fantastic Friday” Clark County Extension 4-H Clubs

December 4—Lincoln Bicentennial Committee presents a Dinner Theatre “Christmas with the Lincolns”

More dates to be added/removed as the year progresses—please check back with a member of the committee for more information!

January 1-31—Lincoln Douglas Debates Exhibit, Marshall Public Library

February 7—Lincoln Program by Chuck Hand, Daughters of the American Revo-lution

February 12—Reading of the Gettysburg Address 9:30 AM

April —Marshall Garden Club to dedi-cate tree to Lincoln, Courthouse Lawn

April 15—Lincoln’s Assassination Date

May 21—Marshall School Band Concert “Lincoln Portrait”

June through August—Marshall City Band Concert, Civil War Era Song each

“AS OUR CASE IS

NEW , WE MUST

THINK AND ACT

ANEW . ”

~ABRAHAM

L INCOLN

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The Marshall Public Library hosted the Lincoln Bicenten-nial Birthday Bash on the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday: February 12, 2009. The event in-cluded CCHS member Char-lie Gamm in period dress, giving demonstrations of civil war era weaponry, as well as several artists with works inspired by Lincoln. Among those artists were portrait artist Deane Lindley and sculptor Bill Wolfe, both of

whom displayed some amaz-ing and beautiful work. There were also historical displays of the works of Basil Moore and a signed original document presented by Joe Schroeder. The library had a wonderful turnout, the head-count totaling over 80 atten-dees. The Lincoln Bicenten-nial Committee members wish to thank everyone for their partici-pation!

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EDITOR ’S NOTE

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Earlier, I requested that any persons interested in including any of their works in this newsletter contact me. I am available 24/7 at the following email address: astone@smwc.edu. In fact, email is the easiest and quickest way to contact me. Interested parties may also contact me via telephone: 812-249-3605. I am always interested to hear from anyone with concerns, critiques, ideas or articles for inclusion. Thank you!

Clark County Historical Society

April 2009