Message-ID: <20201A8FD63746F5BFE9989800D16B3B@YOUREBBFCF9347> From: "Brian Bigler" <usemeum@mhtc.net> Subject: Program of the Mt. Horeb Area Historical Society Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:08:56 -0500
Archaeology of Southwestern Dane County
will be the program of the Mt. Horeb Area Historical Society held at
2:00 pm Sunday October 17th at the Mt. Horeb Community Center 105 North
Grove Street, Mt Horeb.
Guest speaker is UW-Waukesha Professor and retired State Archaeologist
Bob Birmingham, who will talk about the discoveries related to two major
archaeology projects of Southwestern Dane County: Fort Blue Mounds and
most recently, Donald Park.
Birmingham has an engaging and often humorous way of presenting the
secrets that the earth has revealed about the area's former inhabitants,
from the period when local lead miners sought refuge during the 1832
Black Hawk War to a devastating fire of 1893 that leveled a Mt. Vernon
family's log home and most of its contents. You will certainly be moved
by his presentation. Birmingham is author of a forthcoming book
relating the history and discoveries at Fort Blue Mounds.
The afternoon will further include talks by a descendant of the family
that lost their home in the 1893 fire, and a presentation on what really
is above ground archaeology?
The public is cordially invited.