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Second Friday Lecture: The Grant-Rawlins Relationship: Some New and Surprising Revelations

Civil War Museum 5400 1st Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States

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 […]

Fall Acrylic Painting Beginner and Beyond

Kenosha Public Museum 5500 1st Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States

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 […]

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The Great Lakes Civil War Forum: Vicksburg Is The Key

Civil War Museum 5400 1st Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States

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 […]

Second Friday Lecture: Chicago’s Great Fire: The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City

Civil War Museum 5400 1st Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States

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 […]

Caring for the Great Lakes with Liz Sutton

Kenosha Public Museum 5500 1st Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States

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 […]

The Fight for a Gettysburg Farm

Civil War Museum 5400 1st Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States

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 […]

Morning Tai Chi on the Mezzanine

Kenosha Public Museum 5500 1st Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States

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 […]

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Faith in the Fight Documentary Screening

Civil War Museum 5400 1st Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States

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 […]

From Keshena to Kenosha and Beyond: The Menominee Tribe in Wisconsin

Southwest Library 7979 38th Avenue, Kenosha, WI, United States

Join David Grignon, Menominee Tribal Director of Historic Preservation, at the Southwest Library as he speaks on the past, present, and future of the tribe, as a First Nation whose ancestral home has always been within the boundaries of the state of Wisconsin. The Menominee tribe is among the few tribes in Wisconsin whose origin […]

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Ghost Hunting at the Dinosaur Discovery Museum

Dinosaur Discovery Museum 5608 10th Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States

Do you believe in the paranormal? Have you ever wanted to participate in a paranormal investigation? Join the Dinosaur Discovery Museum after hours to hear spooky stories of strange happenings, explore possible evidence of the paranormal captured by real-life ghost hunters including pictures and EVPs, and investigate the museum for yourself. Participants must be 18 […]

Workshop: Fancy Wastebasket

Civil War Museum 5400 1st Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States

Saturday, October 21  |  10:00am – 4:00pm  |  Instructor:  Sandy Bulgrin  |  $77 ($96 non-members)  |  Register Here This basket starts on an oval wood base and is woven to about 11″ high. Using natural and dyed reed students will weave this basket to fit a plastic liner. A great basket for bath or office. Dyed […]

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