PHOTO BY KERRI WESTENBERG/TNS On Wednesday, Feb. 17, at 7 p.m., join the Sangamon County Historical Society and Oak Ridge Cemetery executive director Michael Lelys for a program focusing one of the nation’s leading historical sites. Oak Ridge Cemetery, established in 1865, now encompasses 365 acres and is the largest municipal cemetery in Illinois. The […]
Sangamon County Historical Society
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Former neighbors
PHOTO COURTESY LINCOLN LAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon Abraham Lincoln is a special theater production that will take place on Sunday, Feb. 2, at the Hoogland Center for the Arts. It is jointly sponsored by the Sangamon County Historical Society and Lincoln Land Community College’s Community Learning Program. The title is taken […]
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Cornucopia of concert conundrums
Calise Hawkins comes to Donnie B’s Comedy Club Mon., Feb. 3, 7:30pm. PHOTO BY ANYA GARRETT If anyone felt that the end of January, first of February time span would leave us Springfieldians desperate for music entertainment, just check that feeble feeling at the door. There’s plenty to do and more besides. Here are just […]
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All history is personal
The Sangamon County Historical Society turns 50 years old this year. Judged by such new initiatives as a Web-based encyclopedia of area history, the Society is – it pains me to say this – more spry than most of its members who, like me, were already well out of diapers when the Society was founded […]
