Thursday, August 24 | 6:00pm – 8:30pm | Instructor: Jayne Herring | $52 ($65 non-members) | Register Here Create a beautiful wall hanging or wind chime out of fused glass. All supplies are included in the workshop price.
Saturday, August 26 | 10:30am – 12:30pm | Instructor: Kathy Laybourn | $76 ($95 non-members) | Register Here Have you ever made art by experimenting with melting Crayon when you were a kid? This workshop is designed for anyone who would like to be introduced to the “cold wax” encaustic method. Students will learn to add […]
Opening day for the Civil War Museum's "Faith in the Fight" exhibit, running through June 30, 2024.
Friday, September 8 | 12:00pm – 1:00pm | Speaker: Al Ottens To Civil War buffs, General John Rawlins is usually regarded as the scold that kept Ulysses Grant sober. But the complex motivations behind Rawlins’s temperance interventions are not well known. Nor are the rare communication skills Rawlins possessed that significantly impacted his relationship with […]
Saturdays, September 9 – 30 | 10:30am – 12:30pm | Instructor: Kathy Laybourn | $76 ($95 non-members) | Register Here Be enchanted with texture and color in acrylic paint. Students will learn how to construct a painting by determining basic composition, blocking in the underlying dark, middle, and light values, and layering color. Students will work […]
Friday, September 15 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm | Free Our SPARK! group will tour the new temporary exhibit at the Civil War Museum called Faith in the Fight: Religion in the Civil War. Email [email protected] to register.
Saturday, September 23 | 9:30am - 4:00pm | $64 ($80 non-members) Register Here Check-in starts at 8:30am, program begins at 9:30am. Schedule of Presentations Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg | Presented by Dr. Tim Smith, University of Tennessee-Martin Through all the long months of operations against Vicksburg, Champion Hill stands as the most decisive […]
Friday, October 13 | 12:00pm – 1:00pm | Speaker: Carl Smith The Great Chicago Fire of October 8-10, 1871 which destroyed the heart of the country’s rising inland metropolis and left a third of its population homeless, is one of history’s great disasters. If anything, the city’s rapid recovery was even more remarkable, revealing both […]
Saturday, October 14 | 1:00pm – 2:00pm | Free Do you know the scope of the plastic pollution in the Great Lakes? We are lucky enough to live on one of the largest freshwater sources in the world yet half of all plastic waste in the Great Lakes is in Lake Michigan. Learn about the […]
Saturday, October 14 | 1:00pm – 2:00pm | Speaker: Steve Acker Steve Acker’s newest novel, The Fight for a Gettysburg Farm, tells the story of the Sherfy Farm during the Battle of Gettysburg. From the family that called the farm home to the Union and Confederate units that battled across its acres, this exhaustively researched story gives […]
Mondays, October 16 – November 20 | 9:00am – 10:00am | Instructors: Ruth Mcgee and Sharry Flaherty | $52 ($65 non-members) | Register Here Enjoy the sunshine over the lake as you practice the gentle movements of Tai Chi from the warmth of the museum’s mezzanine. Tai Chi is a slow-moving mind and body exercise, patterned […]
Tuesday, October 17 | 6:30pm – 8:00pm | Speaker: Rev. Robert Miller Join the Civil War Museum as Rev. Robert Miller discusses the documentary film Faith in the Fight. The film discusses the roles played by the nearly 120 Catholic priests who ministered to the spiritual needs of both armies during the Civil War, focusing […]
