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Join Us Saturday!
Hosted by the Grand Rapids Public Library, Main Branch, the Greater Grand Rapids Women's History Council joins other area historical organizations to bring you a day filled with local history. Begin the day with two programs on women's history-then pick and choose or stay all day! Order your lunch by Wednesday (see below) and come early for a good seat!
History Detectives: Sleuthing for Local History
Saturday, January 21, 2012
9:30am - 4:00pm
Grand Rapids Public Library
Main Library Auditorium, 3rd floor
GGRWHC's program will open the day. At 9:30am local history sleuth Diana Barrett will present an exciting account of a unique census of half Grand Rapids' adult female population in 1918, women from all social levels and ethnicities.Barrett will recount the story of the disappearance and reappearance in Grand R apids of 20,000 war registration cards surveying 118 skill categories that could aid the war effort. Men's registration cards, including comparatively little information, have been saved; but data-rich women's cards have virtually disappeared all across the nation--except in Grand Rapids. Now, the GGRWHC is working to digitize the information to gain a more accurate picture of who Grand Rapids women were in 1918 and what that means to us today. We are proud to offer such a program to kick off History Detectives 2012!
Click on this Mlive.com story for more information: http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2012/01/voices_of_grand_rapids_women_h.html
Immediately following Barrett's Rescued from the Attic: a 1918 Treasure Trove,at 10:30am Sonya Bernard Hollinswill present Merze Tate DECLASSIFIED, featuring a West Michigan Howard University history professor and sometime U.S. diplomat. Her own State Department labeled Tate "a public relations risk." Her story is a wild one. It will be followed at 11:30am by Uncovering Ray: From House History to the Discovery of a Legendary Cartoonist. For years Ray Barnes drew Razzing the Rapids. After lunch, hear presentations on Prosopography (What?! "Collective Biography"), then The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Grand Rapids, and finally Special Scouts in the Civil War.
The first program begins at 9:30AM and the day will conclude at 4PM. Fuller program descriptions can be found on our website or in the following Grand Rapids Press article: http://www.mlive.com/living/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2012/01/grand_rapids_library_event_dig.html
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*** Box lunches are $7.00 and must be ordered in advance. Please call 616/988-5492 or email: rsvp@grpl.org by 5PM on Wednesday, January 18, to reserve your lunch. Sandwich choices: turkey, ham, roast beef or vegetarian. Included are a fruit cup, pasta salad, individual condiment, and bottled water. Although lunches must be reserved in advance, cash payment must be made when the lunch is picked up on January 21. If you don't order, come anyway! You can bring your own lunch, but note that the library cafe is not open on Saturday. |
Board meetings are held on the second Wednesday of the month at 5:30 pm at the Vanderveen Center for the Book at the Grand Rapids Public Library. If you have suggestions for programs, oral histories or other items, please email us at info@ggrwhc.org or plan to attend a meeting. |
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