Listmates A GERMAN LECTURE SERIES IS COMING - mark you calendars. A lecture series to be held most Sundays in February 2004 is in the planning stages by the St. Clair County Historical Society, 701 East Washington Street, Belleville, IL 62220, ph: (618) 234- 0600. Lectures to be held at Southwestern Illinois College, 2:00 p.m. Dates and presenters so far: Feb 8, 2004 Tom Jewett on Gustave Koerner and his national connections. Feb 15, 2004 Steven Rowan - lecture focuses on why Germans were drawn to the St. Louis metro region and their life upon arrival. Feb 29, 2004 Steven Rowan - The Fantasy Prairie: Southern Illinois in 1850s German-American Trash Novels Mar 7, 2004 T.B.A This series is a fund raiser for the Gustave Koerner House Preservation (Belleville). Single and package ticket prices will be decided soon. If interested in this series, email Diane Walsh at [email protected] or call the St. Clair County Historical Society.