6/3-9/10: Warhol Scavenger Hunt & Coloring Contest
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DuPage County Historical Museum 102 E. Wesley St., Wheaton, IL
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7/1: The First Shot at Gettysburg: History, Reenactors, and Award Presentation
DuPage County Historical Museum & Adams Park 102 E Wesley St, Wheaton, ILThe First Shot at [...]
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7/15: Victorian Crafts
DuPage County Historical Museum Auditorium 102 E Wesley St, Wheaton, IL, United StatesVictorian Crafts July 15 [...]
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8/19: Crafting with CAE
DuPage County Historical Museum Auditorium 102 E Wesley St, Wheaton, IL, United StatesCreate a Chicago, Aurora and Elgin craft from popsicle sticks. Make puppets to ride along with your CAE creation.
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8/26: A History of the Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railway
Ray Morrill Community Center - Atten Rm 1777 S Blanchard St, Wheaton, ILA History of [...]
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9/16: Crafting with CAE
DuPage County Historical Museum Auditorium 102 E Wesley St, Wheaton, IL, United StatesCreate a Chicago, Aurora and Elgin craft from popsicle sticks. Make puppets to ride along with your CAE creation.
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9/27: When a Pebble Starts an Avalanche: Exploring the History and Value of the Illinois Prairie Path
Ray Morrill Community Center 1777 S Blanchard St, Wheaton, ILWhen a Pebble [...]
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10/7: Relics of the Chicago, Aurora, and Elgin Railway
Ray Morrill Community Center 1777 S Blanchard St, Wheaton, ILRelics of the Chicago, [...]
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10/11: When Trolleys Rode the Prairie Path
Ray Morrill Community Center 1777 S Blanchard St, Wheaton, ILWhen Trolleys Rode the [...]
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10/21: DuPage Roots Book Signing and DCHS Annual Meeting
Wheaton Community Center Rathje Room, #214 1777 S Blanchard St, Wheaton, United StatesDuPage Roots [...]
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10/26: Tragedies and Accidents of the Chicago, Aurora and Elgin Railway
Wheaton Community Center Northside Room, #242 1777 S Blanchard St., Wheaton, United StatesTragedies and Accidents of [...]
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11/11: Second Annual Centennial Award Ceremony presented by the DuPage County Historical Society
Mary Lubko Center 208 W Union Ave., Wheaton, United StatesSecond Annual Centennial Award [...]
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11/18: How the Pioneer Zephyr and the CAE Came to Be
DuPage County Historical Museum 102 E. Wesley St., Wheaton, ILHow the Pioneer Zephyr [...]
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2/3: Victorian Valentines
DuPage County Historical Museum 102 E. Wesley St., Wheaton, ILValentines of the Victorian era were treasured keepsakes, incorporating feathers, beads, and bits of fabric. Create your own Victorian-style valentines in a fun, free, afternoon workshop.
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2/10 – Victorian Valentines
DuPage County Historical Museum 102 E. Wesley St., Wheaton, ILValentines of the Victorian era were treasured keepsakes, incorporating feathers, beads, and bits of fabric. Create your own Victorian-style valentines in a fun, free, afternoon workshop.
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3/16 – Chicago World’s Fairs Family Craft Workshop
DuPage County Historical Museum 102 E. Wesley St., Wheaton, ILCraft beautiful paper quilt designs from the Columbian Exposition and Century of Progress fairs at this free event. Drop by to mix and match your favorite patterns!
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A Community Event: Celebrating Women’s History Month…
DuPage County Historical Museum 102 E. Wesley St., Wheaton, ILA Community [...]
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Craft Workshop: Paper Dolls
DuPage County Historical Museum 102 E. Wesley St., Wheaton, ILCraft Workshop: Paper Dolls [...]
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9/14 – Three Frenchmen & A Goat: The DeMoulin Bros. Story
DuPage County Historical Museum 102 E. Wesley St., Wheaton, ILThree Frenchmen & [...]
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9/18 – Using Maps in Genealogical Research
Using Maps in Genealogical [...]
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9/21 – Barbie: The History of America’s Most Famous Doll
DuPage County Historical Museum 102 E. Wesley St., Wheaton, ILBarbie: The History [...]
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10/8 – America’s First Ladies: The Best, the Worst, and the Strangely Forgotten
DuPage County Historical Museum 102 E. Wesley St., Wheaton, ILAmerica’s First Ladies: [...]
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10/12 – Mudslinging, Muckraking, and Apple Pie: Presidential Campaigns, the Great American Pastime
DuPage County Historical Museum 102 E. Wesley St., Wheaton, ILMudslinging, Muckraking, and [...]
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10/19 – Craft Workshop: High School Memories
DuPage County Historical Museum 102 E. Wesley St., Wheaton, ILCraft Workshop: High School [...]
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10/26 – Leslie Goddard’s Amelia Earhart and DuPage County Historical Society Centennial Awards
DuPage County Historical Museum 102 E. Wesley St., Wheaton, ILLeslie Goddard’s Amelia [...]
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11/14 – Iconic DuPage Diners and Hangouts
DuPage County Historical Museum 102 E. Wesley St., Wheaton, ILIconic DuPage Diners [...]
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11/16 – Walking the Tracks with DPSME
DuPage County Historical Museum 102 E. Wesley St., Wheaton, ILWalking the Tracks with [...]
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7/19: Victorian Crafts
DuPage County Historical Museum Auditorium 102 E Wesley St, Wheaton, IL, United StatesCreate your own Victorian-style crafts. Children around the world have created and played with paper dolls for more than 1,000 years, be part of the tradition.
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8/16: Discover Weaving: A Family Craft Workshop
DuPage County Historical Museum Auditorium 102 E Wesley St, Wheaton, IL, United StatesUsing a simple cardboard loom, learn to weave beautiful objects. Create a doll blanket, potholder or other small project at this drop by event.
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9/10: Cold War and Berlin Wall Memories
DuPage County Historical Museum Auditorium 102 E Wesley St, Wheaton, IL, United StatesU.S. Army Major (Ret.) Steve Fixler will explain how the U.S. Army in Europe deterred the Warsaw Pact from any aggression and how we patrolled the West German – East German/Czechoslovakia border and the Wall in West Berlin, West Germany.
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9/13: DIY Creative Crafting: Scrimshaw and Shrinky Dink
DuPage County Historical Museum Auditorium 102 E Wesley St, Wheaton, IL, United StatesCelebrate the opening of a Cabinet of Curiosities with this family craft workshop! Try the centuries old curiosity of scrimshaw by carving into candles.
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9/17: The Wide World of Passports
DuPage County Historical Museum Auditorium 102 E Wesley St, Wheaton, IL, United StatesDiscover how international passports can unlock hidden chapters of your family’s history in The Wide World of Passports with Debra Dudek! Look beyond passports issued by the United States government.
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9/20: The Making of I Love Lucy
DuPage County Historical Museum Auditorium 102 E Wesley St, Wheaton, IL, United StatesTodd Hunt, a nostalgic humorist and Lucille Ball historian, takes you back to the golden age of television, using slides, audio and video clips, to reveal how this classic show was created. Discover how it grew out of Lucy’s radio program, “My Favorite Husband.”
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9/25: Apollo 11: One Giant Leap, a Series of Firsts
DuPage County Historical Museum 102 E. Wesley St., Wheaton, ILOn July 20, 1969, man first landed on the moon. Hear astronaut Neil Armstrong, played by Terry Lynch of History Presents, recount the lead up to the first moon landing, as well as the other “series of firsts” associated with that historic mission including the first color TV transmission from Earth and the first time a customs report was filled out from another planet!
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10/2: We Were There Too: Women in Vietnam
DuPage County Historical Museum Auditorium 102 E Wesley St, Wheaton, IL, United StatesApproximately 11,000 military women were stationed in Vietnam. In addition to military women, an unknown number of civilian women served in Vietnam as members of the International Red Cross, United Service Organization (USO), and other humanitarian organizations.
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10/16: Songs of Vietnam
DuPage County Historical Museum Auditorium 102 E Wesley St, Wheaton, IL, United StatesJoin the History Singers as they discuss music in support of, and in opposition to, the Vietnam War. This music was heard on the radio, at protest rallies, and in Vietnam where American soldiers accessed music as their own version of protest.
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10/18: Leslie Goddard’s Lucille Ball & DCHS’s Annual Meeting
DuPage County Historical Museum 102 E. Wesley St., Wheaton, ILJoin the DuPage County Historical Society for their annual meeting and enjoy Leslie Goddard’s portrayal of how Lucille Ball captured the hearts of television audiences across the nation in the 1950s.
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10/25: DIY Creative Crafting: Comic Heroes from the Cold War
DuPage County Historical Museum Auditorium 102 E Wesley St, Wheaton, IL, United StatesDid you know that many comic book heroes and villains were inspired by the tensions of the Cold War? Where would the comic world be without Iron Man, symbolizing the arms race, and Bruce Banner’s transformation into the Hulk because of nuclear experimentation? Stop by the Museum to create some crafts of your favorite comic book heroes, and villains too!
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11/6: Cold War Foodways: From Bunkers to Space
DuPage County Historical Museum Auditorium 102 E Wesley St, Wheaton, IL, United StatesFood historians Bruce Kraig and Cynthia Clampitt of the Culinary Historians of Northern Illinois discuss how the Cold War changed foodways in the United States and the world.
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2/7-2/8: Victorian Valentines
DuPage County Historical Museum Auditorium 102 E Wesley St, Wheaton, IL, United StatesCreate your own Victorian-style valentines in this fun afternoon workshop. Valentines of the Victorian era were treasured keepsakes, incorporating feathers, beads, and bits of fabric. Suggested donation of $3/participant.
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2/25: Hidden Messages in Negro Spirituals on the Underground Railroad
DuPage County Historical Museum Auditorium 102 E Wesley St, Wheaton, IL, United StatesLearn the connections of Negro Spirituals that signaled and aided freedom seekers as they headed to Canada.
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