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Concord Historical Society News

Preserving Our Local History Town of Concord -‐ Established in 1846

Spring 2014 www.concordwihistory.org

William R. Look Log Cabin -‐ circa 1850 Originally located in the south-‐west area of the Town of Concord

Restored at Concord Park in 2003, by the Concord Historical Society

Pie Social with a Used Book and Record Sale We have decided to add a new dimension to our Annual Pie Social fundraiser, by combining it with a used books and records sale. So if you have any old books, records or CDs that you are looking to clean out of your attic or basement; please donate them to the CHS. We will make good use of them. On the day of our Pie So-cial we will also have the used books and records for sale in the Log Cabin. This fundraiser is scheduled for Sunday October 10. Please contact Cindy at 262-593-8099 if you would like to donate some books, records or CDs for our sale.

Got Something Old? –Because We Are Going To Try Something “New!”

Pack them up and donate them to the CHS fundraiser!

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Can you please help us? We need your recipes

Send your favorite recipes to the Concord Cook-book funding project, and help us to raise money

to preserve our local history

It’s Easy To Participate!

Just fill out the attached “Recipe Collection Sheet” and send it to the address at the right by August 11, 2014. This fundraiser will help us to put a “new” roof on the Concord Historical Museum. Your name will also be included in the cookbook with your rec-‐ipe or recipes.

Many thanks to Barb Seamandel, our Chairperson for this Cook-‐book Fundraiser!

Then and Now Exhibit The CHS has on display an exhibit called “Then and Now” that features aerial photos of the Town of Con-cord. The exhibit shows the changes over time using aerial and ground-‐based photography in locations throughout the Town of Concord. There were ma-‐jor changes in the transportation system, which af-‐fected businesses along those routes. Road surfaces and alignments needed to change as car and trucks traveled faster. Highway grades and curves were engineered to improve safety and shorten travel time.

Land use also changed with the times as shorter travel times allowed people to move farther from their jobs and move to the country. More houses sprung up on the landscape; efficient farming equipment allowed fields to grow in size with the removal of fence lines. Cattle that was pastured kept new trees and shrubs from growing. Without the cattle, there were more trees and denser woodlands.

Then and Now exhibit now on view at the Concord Historical Museum.

Many thanks to the First Bank Financial Center for their donation of $250 to the exhibit. Also many thanks to Dan Moldenhauer and ARC Document Solutions for the printing contribu-‐tion to the exhibit. Additional thanks to CHS members Jerry Thomasen, and Barb Seamandel for their help with the development of the exhibit.

Please send your recipes to:

Concord Historical Society Cookbook Fundraiser

P.O. Box 561 Watertown, WI 53094


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2014 Town of Concord Family Heritage Awards

The CHS is now seeking nominations for the 2014 Town of Concord Family Heritage Award. Please contact a CHS officer to make a nomination for this year’s award.

The award/s will be presented at the Town of Con-‐cord Picnic on August 10th, 2014. The Ingersoll fam-‐ily received the award in 2004, with the Koeppler family receiving it in 2005; and the Christian and Kramer families receiving the award in 2006. The Hemke and Groose families received it in 2007, with the Zastrow and Webb families accepting the award in 2008. The Rohloff and Bankert families were pre-‐sented with the award in 2009; and the Stendel and Buske families received it in 2010 with the Milbrath, Schuck/Thomasen families in 2011. The Koch and Schultz families received the award in 2012, with the Berkholtz/Klumb family being recognized in 2013.

2014 CHS Calendar of Events

April 12 1:30 p.m.

June 14 1:00 p.m.

Eleanor Roosevelt Program– At Johnson Creek Community Center

Boys, Girls & Chores Life on Grandpa’s Farm -‐ Free program for children and their families at the Log Cabin. Call 262-‐593-‐8099 for reserva-‐tions.

August 10 12:00 noon

Sept. 14 12:00 p.m.

Oct. 12 11:30 a.m. to

3:00 p.m.

CHS Annual Meeting, Election of Officers and Pot Luck Lunch – at Concord Historical Museum. Bring a dish to pass! Program to follow

Concord Town Picnic – Town of Concord Family Heritage Award is presented. Museum and Log Cabin are open. Bring a dish to pass.

CHS Pie Social Luncheon and Book and Record Sale– Annual Fundraiser – At Concord Histori-cal Museum

CHS Board of Directors Meeting – At Concord Historical Museum, all members are welcome

Clip and Save this calendar!

Nov. 8 10:00 a.m.

Left to right: Austin Klumb and his dad Scott, with Donna and Bill Klumb, who received the Town of

Concord Family Heritage award in 2013

Election Day Bake Sale – at the Concord Community Center. Bring your baked goods by 8:00 a.m., call for more info 262-593-8099

Nov. 4

CHS Board of Directors Meeting – At Concord Historical Museum, all members are welcome

May 10 9:00 a.m.


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Curator’s Corner - by Renee Baneck Tantala

Renee Baneck Tantala (left) speaking with Ann Koski as they review some of the society’s collection of artifacts

In March we received excellent advice from Ann Koski, re-‐tired director of the Wisconsin Historical Society Museum in Madison, who visited our museum to review our collection. We are so thankful for all the time she spent with us. We talked with Ann about the need to protect items on display from the light coming in from our large windows. After we showed her one of our very special artifacts, the Spencer sam-‐pler, she suggested that we look into having it professionally conserved. Elizabeth Spence was seven years old when she made this sampler in England in 1837. Elizabeth brought it with her in 1847 when she came to America with her parents Richard and Elizabeth Spence.

Over the past year Cindy Arbiture and Dale Konle have digitized most of the photographs in our collection. Thanks so much for the many hours you spent sort-‐ing and scanning! This makes it much easier to select photos for our website and as part of future exhibits (especially "Por-‐trait of a Town," which is being planned for 2015).

If you have artifacts that you wish to do-‐nate, please contact me or another board member. We are interested in recording any information you have about our arti-‐facts and, of course, any family lore that will help us tell the history of the Town of Concord. We greatly value the generosity of all our donors and volunteers.

Elizabeth Spence needlepoint, that was made by her when she was only 7

years old. It is dated 1837.

This year our focus is on "collections management." While that doesn’t sound exciting, it has inspired me to catch up with accessioning and cataloguing and to begin rearranging objects in cabinets and on shelves.


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Concord Historical Society Officers:

Cindy Arbiture, President, Board Member

Tom Ingersoll, Vice President, Board Member

Sharon Christian, Secretary, Board Member

Barb Siemandel, Treasurer and Membership Chair, Board Member

Renee Baneck Tantala, Curator,

Board Member

Jerry Thomasen, Board Member

Dale Konle, Board Member

Jerald Ingersoll, (Honorary) Board Member

Cindy Arbiture

Newsletter Editor

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Contributing Articles by

Renee Baneck Tantala

CHS Spring Annual

Membership Drive 2014 We are currently into our 2014 annual membership drive. You will find a convenient membership renewal envelope that accompanies this newslet-ter. Please return it to us with your membership check. Every CHS mem-ber is very important to us; please continue your support to preserve our local history. Please do note, that our membership fee continues to be very affordable, at only $5.00 for an individual and $10.00 per family. Dear folks, we understand that life gets busy, and you may not have the free time to attend our meetings or special events, but never the less, we do appreciate your support through your membership. Thanks so very much for your continued support! Please send in your 2014 membership with the convenient envelope at-tached to this newsletter. Please remember your donations “beyond” membership are tax deductible and are put to good use.

Concord Historical Society

c/o N5863 Hickory Hill Dr.

Sullivan, WI 53178

(262) 593-8099

[email protected]

www.concordwihistory.org

Groups are Welcome!

We offer tours to school groups and scouts. Please contact (262) 593-‐8099 for more information.

Members of the Concord Historical Society who passed in 2013 are Ronald Ingerrsoll and Orabelle (Ingersoll) Jaeger, they were brother and sister. Ron had been a charter member of our Society. I still remember the first meeting that he attended with his son Tom Ingersoll. They both had very little to say during that first meeting, but by the time the meeting was over and they learned of our mission to preserve history for our town, they both joined the Society. Tom would later become our Vice President. Ron and his wife Bobbie were always supportive to the Society over the years. We miss Ron and extend our sincere sympathy to Bobbie and all the Ingersoll family.

Orabelle is also missed by her friends at the CHS. She had many wonderful memories that she would share of her school days at Concord Center One-‐Room Schoolhouse, which is currently our Concord Historical Museum. She was always very helpful with our fundraisers, and she did much to help our Society. Our sincere sympathy to Orabelle’s family. She is missed.

Concord Historical Society

P.O. Box 561

Watertown, WI 53094

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