August 26, 2008 - All eyes and ears are on Gene Wright, dressed in period costume, as he engages us in some Civil War history. Our annual pot luck 'picnic' www.tampicohistoricalsociety.com
August 26, 2008 - Gene adjusts Johnny Janeway (aka: Johnny January), a civil war POW; Richard Kirkland, a civil war soldier also known as “Angel of Marey’s Heights; and Harriet Tubman, an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian and Union spy, known as the “Moses” of her people. www.tampicohistoricalsociety.com
August 26, 2008 - Gene Wright with Civil War soldiers, John “January” and Richard Kirkland & Harriet Tubman who operated an underground railroad. www.tampicohistoricalsociety.com
VETERANS' NIGHT Feb. 24, 2009 Bob Cassens shares some Navy stories during 1944-1946
VETERANS' NIGHT, Feb. 24, 2009 L-R: Terry Gaskill, Roy Haney, John Taets, Dennis Morath, Bill Widoff, Don Lester and Art Sage. Not shown is Bob Cassens. www.tampicohistoricalsociety.com
VETERANS' NIGHT, Feb. 24, 2009 K-rations www.tampicohistoricalsociety.com
Terry Buckaloo, Director & Curator of the Sterling/Rock Falls Historical Society & Museum. He was the guest speaker at the Tampico Area Historical Society's Sept. meeting. Terry spoke on their Manahan House project, which is the rehabing of an 1856 home where Abraham Lincoln had spent the night. Visit their website: http://www.svonline.net/~srfhs/
CHAPIN CREAMERY - Fred Glassburn Tampico Area Historical Society's August '09 program was on the Tampico's Chapin Creamery, which closed in 1966. www.tampicohistoricalsociety.com
Chapin Creamery - Jerry "Flop" Serens. The Chapin Creamery closed in 1966 www.tamicohistoricalsociety.com
Chapin Creamery - Gene Wright www.tampicohistoricalsociety.com
Chapin Creamery - Keith Sherman Photos taken by Gene Wright www.tampicohistoricalsociety.com
Don 'Shake" Tonkinson & Francis Westmeyer Chapin Creamery, Tampico, IL www.tampicohistoricalsociety.com
Chapin Creamery, Tampico, IL www.tampicohistoricalsociety.com
Program on the Cheese Factory
Michael Murphy
Michael Murphy on visit with Ronald Reagan in 1998 www.tampicohistoricalsociety.com
Ron Slack - Stealing Lincoln's Body
Ron Slack - "Stealing Lincoln's Body"
The October program of Tampico Area Historical Society was presented by Barbara Mask and Pamela Blecha of the Fulton Historical Society. Mrs. Mask interviewed Mrs. Blecha as she portrayed Nellie Reagan (mother of President Ronald Reagan) while she described the early years of the Reagan's family life, from their marriage in Fulton to living and working in Tampico, then on to Chicago, Galesburg, Monmouth, back to Tampico, then to Dixon and later their move to California. Pictured - Barbara Mask on left - Pamela Blecha (as Mrs. Nellie Reagan) on right.
