Grand Re-Opening with Glencoe School Days and and Old Glencoe Exhibits on March 12

Posted on Feb 4, 2006 in categories Events, Exhibits, Press Releases

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“School days, school days, dear old Golden Rule days” or so the song goes. Come back with us to Glencoe’s early days and visit the Glencoe School Days exhibit, officially opening March 12, from 2-4 p.m. at the Eklund History Center, 377 Park Ave.

After nine months of renovation, the Glencoe Historical Society is proud to announce the official reopening of the Eklund Center museum, with two new exhibits: Glencoe School Days and Old Glencoe. The two are filled with artifacts, letters and photographs depicting Glencoe through the years.

Glencoe School Days includes pictures of graduating classes, school classes and activities at the many schools in Glencoe—ranging from the first framed schoolhouse that later became a home to a family that had been burned out of its home to today’s Central, South, and West schools. Photos show the development of local schools as the population of the village increased.

Some may remember Hawthorn School, now a private residence, where in the 1920s children were given education from kindergarten through 8th grade in a free sprit with “movable desks and blackboards” that allowed flexibility. And look at the graduation dresses from the 1930s and 1980s; if nothing else, they have changed in color.

Desks have changed through the years, too, from those attached to the floor and shared by two or more pupils to ones that could be moved around the room as the teacher and class preferred. Inkwells, pen nibs (black fingers) are memories from the past that are revived in the Glencoe School Days exhibit.

Also on display is Old Glencoe: a town actually named Taylorsport, where wagons were pulled by oxen and horses, dinner was game shot by the man of the house, and the main building was a stagecoach stop—the LaPier House inn. Artifacts of the era 1830-1900 are on display in this new exhibit that highlights Glencoe’s founding and early settlement.

The Glencoe Historical Society’s Eklund Center is located at 377 Park Ave. It is open Wednesday, 9–4, and the second and fourth Sundays of the month 2-4 p.m.

The opening of the new exhibits will be at 2 p.m. March 12. The public is invited and refreshments will be served.

For questions or to make an appointment, call 847.835.0040.

 

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  2. On March 23, 2006 3:49 PM, Nello Lucchesi said:

    This press release appeared in an article in the “Glencoe Happenings” section of the February 9 issue of the Glencoe News.