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Updated 8/14/2008
From the Assistant Director, Jennifer Weaver
Something New and Fun at the Museum for Kids of All Ages!
The next time you visit the museum you can go on a treasure hunt! We have a page with pictures of items in the museum to find as you are taking a tour. All you have to do is find the object and on the line below the picture write what it is. If you are not sure just write down what you think it is. When you have finished your tour and named all of the items, bring it to the front desk and the receptionist will check your answers to see if you have found them all. If you did and they are correct you will get an old-fashioned candy stick of your choice from the gift shop. Happy hunting!
Details of Upcoming Events.
The Food for Thought lecture series takes place in the Armory Museum’s May Murray Room. They begin at 12:05 p.m., and last approximately one hour. Attendees are welcome to bring their own lunch. They are all free and open to the public.
The schedule for American Girl Club is as follows:June 5th - Embroidery project.
June 19th - Embroidery project.
July 24th - Perforated Paper or Paper Lace project.
July 31st - Perforated Paper or Paper Lace project.
August 7th - Trinket Box with Scrap Pictures project.
August 21 - Trinket Box with Scrap Pictures project.
The Club will meet from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. Open to Girls 7-12 years old. Please call the Museum at 454 -2723 to make a reservation.
August 13: Winona Lighting: The Lighting Process for Construction with Steve Biesanz
Lighting is something many of us take for granted. But the way a building or home is lit plays a large role in the environment of the space. Steve will take attendees through the process of a custum lighting project with a powerpoint of several project examples.
August 20: The Port Authority of Winona and What We do, with Judy Bodway
Judy will cover a brief history of the Port Authority, describe past projects, current activites and the future plans of the Port. She will also focus on the commercial navigation side of the Port and economic development.
August 27: Food For Thought Book Chat, Water for Elephants by Susan Gruen
Water for Elephants is the story of Jacob's life with this circus. Sara Gruen spares no detail in chronicling the squalid, filthy, brutish circumstances in which he finds himself. The animals are mangy, underfed or fed rotten food, and abused. Jacob, once it becomes known that he has veterinary skills, is put in charge of the "menagerie" and all its ills.
Pioneer School
Pioneer School will be held at the Arches despite the flood damage, clean up has made enough progress to offer this WCHS favorite again this summer! Kids step back in time and a get to experience life as a pioneer student through crafts, learning and games in the one room School House at the Arches Museum of Pioneer Life, HWY 14 between Stockton and Lewiston. There will be 3 sessions, July 7, 8, 9th, July 21, 22, 23rd and August 4, 5, 6th and each run from 9 am -noon each day. Cost is $20 for non-members or $17 for WCHS members - per child. Open to children in 1st - 7th grade.
August 27: Driftless Area Rock Art
The unglaciated Driftless Area of Southwestern Wisconsin and southeastern Minnesota is a unique environment in the Midwest that was occupied by Native Americans for nearly 12,000 years. This region harbors more caves and rockshelters than any surrounding area until one reaches the Ozarks. Archaeologists have excavated the floors of rockshelters finding evidence of occupation through time, and occasionally carvings or drawings that reflect an enigmatic part of the past. In the past two decades several important rock art discoveries have been made in the Driftless Area, including the first evidence of rock art in the dark zones of deep caves. These depict birds, deer, bow hunters and abstract symbols. Efforts have focused on recording and preserving these rare and fragile finds, while interpretation and dating have been initiated. Robert "Ernie" Boszhardt will present an overview of the history of rock art research in the Driftless Area on August 27th at 7:00 p.m., and will summarize the recent deep cave finds as well as unfortunate examples of very recent vandalism to the irreplaceable works of art. Mr. Boszhardt is the Associate Director/Contracts Director and Regional Archaeologist at the Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center (MVAC) on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Originally from the Milwaukee area, he has focused his career on the archaeology of the Midwestern United States beginning with a 1973 field school at Silver Mound (Source of Hixton Silicified Sandstone) in Jackson County, Wisconsin. He has been at MVAC since its inception. He has directed numerous surveys and excavations in the unglaciated Driftless Area and Upper Mississippi River Valley (resulting in nearly 200 technical reports), and has published nearly 50 articles on a wide range of regional archaeology topics. He is also the author of three books and several documentaries. Copies of the book Deep Cave Rock Art will be available for purchase.
September 10: Artful Innovation...Elevating Art through Technology with Jeff Van Fossen
Conceived in Winona nearly two decades ago, the CodaBow family of graphite-fiber bows for stringed instruments has established a newperformance standard among serious string players worldwide. By uniting the time-honored traditions of bow making witht the future of advanced materials, Coda Composites Company has pioneered a new generation of bow that is unsurpassed in its performance and uncompromising in its beauty.
September 17: Care and Storage for Your Photographs with Jodi Brom
In conjuction with the Adopt an Artifact fundraiser event, WCHS curator, Jodi Brom will teach attendees about caring for their own collections of artifacts at home. Photographs are the most common piece of history that the average person has and keeping them for future generation to enjoy is very important- learn how to take care of your photographs, old and new so they last as long as possible.
September 24: Food For Thought Book Chat The Orphan Train Riders: Placing Out in America by Marilyn Holt
From 1850 to 1930 America witnessed a unique emigration and resettlement of at least 200,000 children and several thousand adults, primarily from the East Coast to the West. This "placing out," an attempt to find homes for the urban poor, was best known by the "orphan trains" that carried the children. Freelance writer Holt carefully analyzes the system, initially instituted by the New York Children's Aid Society in 1853, tracking its imitators as well as the reasons for its creation and demise.
October 1: Present Day Adoption with Valerie Strauss
Valerie Strauss is the Director of the Clinical Counseling Services and Director of the Pregnancy Parenting and Adoption Services for Catholic Charities Diocese of Winona. Valerie has over 30 years of experience in Adoption. Valerie has worked directly with birthparents choosing to place their child for adoption and with couples wanting to adopt a child. Catholic Charities has been providing adoption services across a 20 county area of southern Minnesota for over 60 years.
October 22: Food For Thought Book Chat Digging to America by Anne Tyler
When Bitsy and Brad Donaldson and Sami and Ziba Yazdan both adopt Korean infant girls, their chance encounter at the Baltimore airport the day their daughters arrive marks the start of a long, intense if sometimes awkward friendship. Sami's mother, Maryam Yazdan, who carefully preserves her exotic "outsiderness" despite having emigrated from Iran almost 40 years earlier, is frequently perplexed by her son and daughter-in-law's ongoing relationship with the loud, opinionated, unapologetically American Donaldsons. When Bitsy's recently widowed father, Dave, endearingly falls in love with Maryam, she must come to terms with what it means to be part of a culture and a country.
October 29: The Haunted Holiday: Folk Roots of Halloween with Nicholas Ozment
Over the past decade, Halloween has become arguably one of the most popular and celebrated holidays, approaching Christmas and Easter in terms of house decorating, parties, and merchandise. Ozment discusses the roots of the holiday and the origins of such customs as dressing in costumes, carving pumpkins, and " trick or treat." He will also share some of his own favorite Halloween traditions.
