List - the German lecture series approaches. They will also have audiotapes for purchase if you are interested in one or the other but cannot make it. Tapes payable in advance as they will only make a couple over the number ordered. More info here http://www.compu-type.net/rengen/stclair/lecture.htm Diane PRESS RELEASE German Lecture Series Contact Person: Diane Walsh (618)277-0848 [email protected] The St. Clair County Historical Society will sponsor a lecture series to benefit the Gustave Koerner House Preservation located at 200 Abend Street. Where: Theatre, Southwestern Illinois College, Main Campus, 2500 Carlyle Avenue, Belleville, Illinois at the intersection of Carlyle Avenue/Illinois 161 and Green Mount Road, which now is accessible directly from I-64. Exit College Station if riding MetroLink. Time: 2:00 p.m., followed by question and answer period. Tickets: $10.00 each at the Theatre door, or by mail with stamped, self-addressed envelope to: St. Clair County Historical Society, 701 East Washington Street, Belleville, Illinois 62220. Feb 8, 2004 Dr. Tom Jewett "Gustave Koerner: A Man Who Shaped His Time" Emphasizes Koerner's contributions of national importance. Feb 15, 2004 Dr. Steven Rowan - "St. Louis - That's Near Belleville, Isn't It? Or, Why Germans Came to the Metro St. Louis Area and Their Life Once Settled During the 1850s" Feb 29, 2004 Dr. Steven Rowan - "The Fantasy Prairie: Southern Illinois in 1850s German-American Trash Novels" Thomas Jewett, Ph.D. (St. Louis University); Assistant Professor, McKendree College; Professor Emeritus at Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville, author, "Belleville Man Challenged Lincoln" (1983), "Gustave Koerner and the Republican Party" (2003), The Belleville Germans (1986), Ethnic History of the Metro East: World of Difference (1990), and "Mr. Jefferson's Libraries" in The Early American Review (Summer-Fall, 2003). Steven Rowan, Ph.D. (Harvard University); Professor, History Department, University of Missouri at St. Louis. Current research on German Radicals in the 19th century Missouri and Illinois; translator, Wilhelm Kaufmann's The Germans in the American Civil War (Carlisle, Pa: Kallmann, 1999), and Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein, The Mysteries of New Orleans (Baltimore, 2002); author, Germans for a Free Missouri: Translations from the St. Louis Radical Press (University of Missouri Press, 1983).