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Three new indexes have been added to the Library Resource Index. The volumes, Events in Egypt, which contain newspaper extracts from Marion, Herrin and Carterville covering the years 1899-1900, 1905-1909 and 1917 were added to our master library index and brings the number of references to 128,256. The extract books were laboriously compiled by Helen Sutt Lind. A special thanks to Chrystal Pehm for creating the index for the 1917 book while working at home for us.

Three new book indexes have been added to our Library Resource Index. The linking page has also been updated to reflect a current list of all books and their authors that are in the index.

The newest editions are the 1900-04 Events in Egypt volume by Helen Sutt Lind which contains newspaper extracts from Marion, Herrin & Carterville. The second volume is the index to a more recent audit of Davis Prairie Cemetery that was completed in 2015. The final volume is a new one to the library and is the index to Frick Funeral Home records from 1931-1940. The records were transcribed by Harry and Dorothy Boyd.

Library Resource Index Link

 

We received a MacArthur Award medal today that was given to people who raised their own vegetables during WWII. They were called Victory Gardens. The medal says National Victory Garden Institute on the front and the back says For Outstanding Achievement In Victory Gardening.

Its items like this that continue to enrich our history.

 

The Benton paranormal group, Midnight Paranormal, made another visit to the Williamson County Historical Society Museum on Saturday evening, May 27th, 2017. Five members of the group spent the evening investigating things that go bump in the old building. With over 100 years of activity in the building, heaven only knows it has every reason to be active. The group has made regular trips to the museum in the last year.

The indexes to the two books Events in Egypt 1918 and Events in Egpyt 1910-12 have been added to the Library Resource Index. The 1918 index was typed up by volunteer Judith Mente who worked on this from her home. Thanks a bunch Judith.

 

Fifth Grade classes from the Jefferson School here in Marion came to tour the Williamson County Museum on Wednesday, May 24th. The teachers for the classes were Goodwin and Williams.

 

The index to the book Events in Egypt for the year 1913 has been added to the Library Resource Index, located under the Records Tab from the Menu at the top of each page. The book contains extracts from 1913 newspapers from Marion, Herrin & Carterville and adds 3,392 entries to the master index.

WHCS president, Sam Lattuca, gave a 1.5 hour program on the early history and formation of Williamson County and Marion Thursday evening, May 18, 2017 at the Marion Carnegie Library. Lattuca’s program covered early native American cultures, French and British occupation as well as the process that the county buyinglevitrahere went through in getting formed. A few of the topics discussed were crime in Williamson County, the growth of coal mining and its role and how alcohol and the temperance movement shaped the county in its early years.

Also discussed were the types of birds and animals that used to be found here in pioneer times that we no longer see today.

Monday through Thursday, fifth grade students from the Washington School toured the county museum becoming aware of the ways of early pioneers and county citizens. On Friday a class of third graders from Dawn Jackson’s Washington School class visited.