Update from St. Clair County List Admin - > 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 rengen@compu-type.net or call the > St. Clair County Historical Society. >

If anyone attends the Feb. 29 lecture, please let us know about the German-American trash novels. Georgia GDETTLEFF@aol.com wrote: > Update from St. Clair County List Admin - > > > 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 rengen@compu-type.net or call the > > St. Clair County Historical Society. > > > > ==== MO-STLOUIS-METRO Mailing List ==== > If you haven't visited Dave Lossos' "Genealogy in St. Louis" website (http://genealogyinstlouis.accessgenealogy.com/) you might want to take a look.