Herrin Society to sponsor Pete Peterson, sports author

Posted on by March 6, 2023

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HERRIN AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY and Gordon Pruett, HAHS Board Member, have arranged to have Richard “Pete” Peterson speak on “Major League Baseball Players from the Herrin Area: Ray Chapman, Robert Veach, Ray Fosse and Others” on Friday, September 12th at 2:00 p.m.

              Richard “Pete” Peterson is Professor Emeritus of English at Southern Illinois University and, for the past ten years, the commentator for the Reading Baseball series on WSIU-FM.  He is the author of Extra  Innings: Writing on Baseball, Growing Up with Clemente, and Pops: The Willie Stargell Story, and the editor of The Pirates Reader and The St. Louis Baseball Reader.  His baseball writings have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and his hometown Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. (He is not to be confused with another “Pete” Peterson in Marion (husband of Yolande Peterson).

New Book List Posted

Posted on by August 13, 2014

One of our own society members, Helen Sutt Lind, has made her books available through our website. Helen has published numerous books detailing newspaper clippings, cemetery listings and historical county records for years. Now you can order directly from Helen and help support her research. These books are invaluable reference tools for genealogical and historical research.

Helen’s book list can be accessed from the Book Store Index page or you can go directly to it here:

Helen Sutt Lind’s Book List

Herrin Area Historical Society to Encore “Looking Back”

Posted on by August 1, 2014

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The Herrin Area Historical Society will be hosting an encore of “Looking Back.”  The presentation is a nostalgic look back into Herrin’s rich history via a slide show of over 100 photographs depicting Herrin in its early days.

The event will be held on Friday, August 15th at 6 P.M. in the Tony Galenas meeting room of the Herrin City Library. Membership is not required to attend the showing.

Membership in the organization for 2014 dues is $25 per person and $35 for couple memberships should you desire to join.

H.A.H.S.

P.O. Box 127

Herrin, Illinois 62948

Monthly Historical Articles to Appear in Local Paper

Posted on by July 29, 2014

The Williamson County Historical Society was recently contacted by the new managing editor, Jim Rodenbush, of the Marion Daily Republican about the possibility of raising the visibility of the society and the museum. As a result, we will be furnishing the Daily Republican with a monthly article related to the history of Williamson County that will run 500 to 600 words each.

In addition, Rodenbush was impressed with our sister site, www.mihp.org, related to the history of Marion Illinois and will be extracting the articles from that site to publish a weekly column entitled “Looking Back.” The Marion site is operated by Sam Lattuca, a board member with the WCHS, and has been in operation for almost two years. The site contains over 300 biographies of Marion citizens, over 2,000 photos and innumerable articles about historical events, organizations, businesses, city government and churches. The site also contains business and street directories of Marion ranging from 1876 to 1980 spanning almost 100 years.

Lattuca encourages anyone with historical data related to Marion or the county of Williamson to contact us using the Contact Us tab on this or the Marion site and consider sharing the information.

To visit the Marion Illinois History Preservation site, click here.