Showing posts with label Greg Hager. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Greg Hager. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
TSGS Meeting Report
For those who could not attend our last TSGS Monthly Meeting, I offer this report...
We had 20 people attend last Tuesday night's meeting. I sincerely believe that it was the shortest meeting in our over 35 year history - total time about 32 minutes after the meeting was called to order by President Don Counts.
Diana Davis, Treasurer, presented the following report:
Balance on 31 August 2012 - $2382.79
September income - 2075.86
Expenses -1017.76
Balance on 30 September 2012 - $3440.89
Membership: 187 individuals + 10 library subscription
Lyn Martin gave the library report on the following:
- New multi-generation family charts are available for $1 each
- New Kentucky death records arrived recently
- Circulating collection is going well
Greg Hager, Willard Library Director, made comments encouraging the society and offered the library's email database as a way to promote the society more.
John West made a motion to begin future meetings at 6:30 P.M. Sue Hebbeler seconded the motion. A majority vote approved 6:30 P.M. as starting time for future meetings. The society membership also voted to cancel the TSGS Annual Dinner meeting in April.
Don Counts presented the program on Bio-Terrorism and Biological Warfare in the Revolutionary War. Diana Davis’ name was drawn for the attendance prize which was a membership to TSGS for 2013. John West called attention to a Facebook page for the TSGS a link to it can be found on the TSGS Cruiser Blog (above).
- Reported by John G. West, TSGS Vice-President
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
TSGS Meeting Tonight!
Tri-State Genealogical Society
Meeting Tonight!
When: Tuesday 9 October 2012 - 7:00 PM
Where: Willard Library - 2nd. Floor
What: Monthly Meeting & Program
A drawing for an attendance prize will be awarded at the close of the meeting... you must be present to win.
The Tri-State Genealogical Society will have a brief business meeting with a short presentation from Willard Library's Director, Greg Hager, followed by our program:
“Bio-Terrorism-Biological Warfare in the Revolutionary War” by TSGS President Don Counts.
This is a program you will not want to miss. We usually think of Biological warfare as something that happens or could happen in modern warfare. Our ancestors suffered biological attacks.
We will be looking forward to seeing you at the meeting and enjoying a very interesting and entertaining program.
You do not have to be a member to come and enjoy the society’s monthly meetings.
- Posted by TSGS President Don Counts
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
From the Firdt Mate's Photo Album - Willard Library
Very Large Portrait
of George Washington
with Horse
Hangs midway on the stairs to the second floor.
This copy of Gilbert Stuart’s “George Washington at Dorcester Heights” (which hangs at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts) is believed to have been painted by William Edward West.
The painting has been with Willard Library since its opening, but how it came to the Library was a mystery until 1954.
At that time, Julia Evans Stephens Shea, a resident of Hollywood, California, and descendent of General Robert M. Evans, was visiting Evansville. During her stay, she read a newspaper article by Bish Thompson on the cleanup and minor restoration of the painting.
Shea was the only living heir to the painting in 1954, and she determined it should be left on display at Willard Library. It hangs there today.
Willard Library Director Greg Hager told me an interesting story about this painting that maybe I will be able to get him to share on this blog! My middle son, JJ, who just turned 37 lives in Cincinnati and asked me about this painting that he remembers as an 8 or 9 year old.
- Compiled by JGWest
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