THE SMITHSONIAN IS
COMING “WATER YOU WADIN’ FOR?”
Put on your boots, pull out your checkbooks, and Flood us
with Funds!
More than 1/3 of Lawrence County floods on a regular basis
so the Lawrence County Historical Society needs more than 1/3 of you to donate
money to build our ‘flood wall.” Our
main exhibit will be a professionally constructed 8x24’ bar graph showing the major floods in Lawrence
County starting with the one in 1779 when George Rogers Clark crossed the
prairie up to and including the most recent levee break.
The Smithsonian will be bringing an 850 sq. ft. traveling
exhibit about Water and the ways it has influenced and shaped the world. It will arrive on Sept 3 and stay until Oct
15, 2016 so everyone will have a chance to see this free thought- provoking
exhibit.
The Lawrence County Historical Society are also constructing exhibits corresponding with this Water-related theme. Under the category of how water has
shaped the way we play will be exhibits about Stivers Springs, Lake Lawrence,
and Red Hills State Park. To show how
water has shaped the way we work, will be an exhibit on Pearl Fishing, and one
on drainage and irrigation in farming.
How water shaped the way we traveled and settled in Lawrence County will
include information about the mills, steamboats, and flatboats.
Several other exhibits are also being developed as well as a
small theatre to preview the documentary film that the high school youth are
preparing with the prestigious Smithsonian award of technology equipment.
....And
to go along with the newly painted, carpeted interior, the roof has developed a
leak so that unplanned element of water has certainly added a new dimension to
how water has shaped the way we… place the buckets to catch the drips.
So you can help us by being a part of our bucket brigade.
Send checks to Lawrence County Historical Society, PO Box 425 Lawrenceville, Il
62439 or go on our website www.lawrencelore.org
and use PayPal. donate for Smithsonian If you would like to
sponsor an exhibi,t contact Nancy King. kingnancyj@yahoo.com.
