TAHS Regular Meeting Reminder
Greetings: The Regular March meeting is scheduled for this coming Tuesday evening, March 26 at 7 PM in the Museum. Please plan to attend and if you should have ANY FRIENDS AND/OR RELATIVES who would be able to come , please bring them along too.
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Greetings; Reminder of the regular Historical Society meeting this coming Tuesday, Feb. 26 at 7 PM in the Museum.
Read MoreTAHS – 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...
Read MoreTAHS Potluck & HY&T Program
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...
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