Exhibitions this Season
Opening in April
At The History Museum, 413 S. 12th St.

The Hon. Stephen A. Douglas of Quincy

Our retrospective on Quincy’s Douglas—in this bicentennial year of his birth—looks at the self-made man who became the nation’s most powerful Democrat of his time. Made possible through a grant by the Lincoln Heritage Coalition, the exhibit features numerous artifacts and personal possessions owned by Quincy’s Douglas from the famed Douglas collection of Mr. George Buss of Freeport, Illinois.
 

The Illinois Soldiers and Sailors Home

In the late 19th century, more than 50 Illinois commmunities competed to become the site of a proposed Soldiers and Sailors Home. In December 1885 the state decided to locate the institution on the Dudley estate, just north of Quincy. Today, the Illinois Veterans Home is a landmark of Quincy. This exhibit reviews the venerated home for the heroes of our nation’s wars who live there.
 

Saluting the Great Little Town of Beverly

The town featured in our Community Room this year is the little town of Beverly, a “great little town” in its heyday. Thanks to HSQAC member Linda Mayfield for bringing this great little town to our place.
 

Programs this Season

April

7

A Treasury of Architecture in Quincy, Illinois

Vicki Ebbing, former executive director of the Gardner Museum of Arrchiectrue and Design, provides a program on the celebrated architecture of our community.
Location: Gardner Museum, 332 Maine St.

14

The Artful Practice of Civil War Medicine

Rudimentary and trying was the practice of medicine near battlefields of the Civil War. Yet the men and women who cared for those maimed and wounded  found ways to mend and heal. HSQAC member Dr. Tim Jacobs, a practicing physician at Quincy Medical Group, provides a look at the results of his study of medical arts during the Civil War.
Location: HSQAC Visitors Center, 417 S. 12th St.

May

27

Memorial Day at Quincy’s Woodland Cemetery

The Society and Friends of Woodland Cemetery renew the community’s Memorial Day services at Woodland Cemetery. Tributes to those who served, tours, descriptions of markers and their meaning will be among the activities. Click here for a more complete look at the programming that day.

June

22

An Old-Fashioned Chautauqua: Stephen A. Douglas at 200

Before iPads and 52-inch flat-screen televisions, Chautauquas were often a community’s entertainment. In 19th century Quincy, the likes of transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson and New York Tribune Publisher Horace Greeley spoke at Chautauquas. Join us under the tent for a Chautauqua on Quincy’s Stephen A Douglas for  talks by Douglas protégé William A. Richardson of Quincy, Abraham Lincoln, and Douglas himself; with music by the Quincy Chautauqua Ensemble featuring works of Quincyan Henry Clay Work. And enjoy a 19th century meal with us that evening—from the cookbook of the wife of Civil War General Benjamin Grierson.
Location: HSQAC south lawn, 425 S. 12th St. Made possible through a grant by the Lincoln Heritage Coalition.

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