Local History Symposium

On
Nov 8
Through
10:00 am
10:00 am

In the first-ever local history symposium at the Evansville Museum on Saturday, November 8, a series of four talks will recall various aspects of the city’s past.

This will include talks by University of Southern Indiana history professor Denise Lynn; retired educator Terry Hughes; Vanderburgh County Historian Stan Schmitt; and the Evansville Museum’s chief curator/curator of history Tom Lonnberg.

- 10:00 – 11:00 am: Denise Lynn, Albion Fellows Bacon

- 11:15 am – 12:15 pm: Terry Hughes, The Golden Years of the Victory Theatre

- 12:15 – 1:30 pm: Lunch Break on Your Own

- 1:30 – 2:30 pm: Stan Schmitt, Evansville’s Early Transportation History

- 2:45 – 3:45 pm: Tom Lonnberg, Key Moments in Evansville’s History

Presented in Partnership with the Vanderburgh County Historical Society

Victory Theater, 1921