Message-ID: <1438643729.13803.YahooMailBasic@web160305.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 16:15:29 -0700 From: "Sussex-Lisbon Area Historical Society, Inc." <slahsinc@yahoo.com> Subject: Happening at the Depot Museum
Happening at the Depot Museum
The Sussex-Lisbon Area Historical Society's Depot Museum has several new exhibits for visitors. One member has loaned us his camera collection with items dating back to c1910. Another exhibit is the history of the bandaid bandage in tins and magazine ads beginning in the 1920s. We're building a third exhibit highlighting the local area music, esp., polka and rock n' roll bands. Our main Saloons & Taverns exhibit from last year has been condensed to accommodate these new ones. We also created an exhibit last Summer to preserve the Land O' Lakes league local baseball teams in Sussex and Lannon. LOL league [baseball, basketball, boxing, and bowling] along with your local music talent are areas your societies may wish to explore in the future. We are open every Wednesday, 1-6:30pm, and the 2nd and 4th Saturdays each month, 1-4pm. Admission is $4.00, under 10, Free. Parking is next door in the Piggly
Wiggly lot, main St., Sussex. Our website is www.slahs.org
On a side note: This will be our last one and a half years in the former Chicago North Western Railway depot. We are moving into the new Village of Sussex Civic Center after its completion late 2016/early 2017. The depot building was donated to the Village and will be moved further along the Bug Line recreation trail in Sussex to be repurposed as a trail head. The depot's current location has never been very visible to the public after its move there in 1978, so now our Society gains much more exhibit space and the old building will be preserved in a new life.
Thank you,
Mike
Michael R. Reilly; President Sussex-Lisbon Area Historical Society, Inc. SLAHS.org Website Editor & Assistant Museum Curator P. O. Box 32, Sussex, Wisconsin 53089-0032 414-530-3121