TAHS – August & September Updates
We continue to have our “Show & Tell” at each of our regular Historical Society meetings. At the September meeting, Roy & Mary Lou Haney brought an unusual item and asked everyone try to guess what it was. No one guessed correctly. It was a long pole with what looked something like a garden spade on the end. The handle had a grip that allowed you to turn it. Several of us guessed it as a post hole digger. It turned out it was an ice digger for cutting hole in ice for ice fishing. The spade or spoon type end would then be used to scoop out the ice after you hand-cranked...
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News source from listserver@tampicohistoricalsociety.com: Greetings members and friends of Tampico Historical Society. The annual potluck is coming up Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012, at 6 PM in the Tampico Community Building. Gene Wright will entertain us following the meal with a program on the HY&T “The Dummy” Train. Everyone is invited to come join us. If you don’t want to come for the meal (dish to pass and own table service), then come later for the program – about 6:45 PM. Also, if any of you are not already Life Time Members, then your annual dues should have...
Read MoreWhiteside County Family Histories
News source from listserver@tampicohistoricalsociety.com: NEW WHITESIDE COUNTY HISTORY BOOKS – Don Mulnix will be collecting family histories and/or book orders next week. If you have not mailed him your biography(ies) yet, please do so asap or drop them off at the Reagan Birthplace (Mon-Sat. 10-4 & Sun. 1-4). If you need a brochure, pick them up in Tampico at KICKBACK SALOON, R&B DUTCH DINER, REAGAN BIRTHPLACE/MUSEUM or PNB/Tampico – or email Don: donald s. mulnix dsm_1944@yahoo.com To Subscribe, unsubscribe, suspend delivery or opt-out of further promotional mailings go...
Read MoreCorrections
News source from listserver@tampicohistoricalsociety.com: Hello everyone, Yesterday I sent an announcement asking that everyone consider “pre-ordering” their new Whiteside Co. History Books through the TAHS because we would receive a % of sales. Don Mulnix, co-coordinator of this project corrected me as follows: “We will be getting a percentage of the pre books sold, it will not be decided on how many books any one society sold, but the money will be divided between all the societies weather they sold one book or 100 books. After the pre sale is over, you will be able to...
Read MoreNew Whiteside County History Books
News source from listserver@tampicohistoricalsociety.com: If you live in Whiteside County, IL, you should have received a brochure in the mail explaining this project to publish a new Whiteside County History Book. If you did not receive one or if you live outside of Whiteside County, but have “history” here, please contact me and I will mail you one. I can email in pdf format if you prefer. We need histories of your family in Whiteside County. Of course, we want to see Tampico well represented. It does not matter if your family is/was here for 10 years or 100 years. Fifty years...
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