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Lauren Gleason, volunteer coordinator, Illinois State Historic Sites; and Jenn Edginton, interim director, Illinois State Museum joined Community Voices to provide more information about the Illinois History Day experience for students and volunteers. Judges and other volunteers to facilitate the event are still needed.
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Admission will be free Saturday and Monday.
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Lauren Gleason, interim volunteer coordinator of Illinois State Historic Sites in Springfield, and Margo Carlen, volunteer services coordinator at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, discuss the importance of volunteers to nonprofits and opportunities available.
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About 100 artifacts are shown as 3D images. They can be enlarged, turned upside down or spun around. Details about each help bring them to life.
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Barack Obama launched his campaign for president in 2007 at the Old State Capitol in downtown Springfield.
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“The people of Sangamon have cast me off,” he wrote to his old New Salem friend. “It would astonish if not amuse, the older citizens of your county … to learn that I have been put down here as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.”
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Marcel Tworek and Justin Blandford discuss the Old State Capitol being added to the National Park Service's National Underground Railroad Network of Freedom.
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In a first-of-its-kind hire last month, the Illinois State Museum added a director of tribal relations – a pioneering role in the institution’s 145-year-history. Heather Miller will be responsible for building and repairing relationships between the Springfield-based museum and Native American tribes with historical ties to the state, specifically when it comes to how the state has handled native artifacts and remains.
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Graham Peck and Beth Hatt visit Community Voices to share how the Lincoln Legacy Lectures have broadened into providing continuing education for teachers through the expert guest speakers.
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The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum has been capturing memories of the pandemic with a special oral history project. An event will be Wednesday August 10.
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The work will tackle a long list of deferred maintenance on the grounds.
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Four nonprofit organizations received grants from the Sangamon County Historical Society to fund special projects that help preserve and promote local history.