Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 09:39:30 -0500 (EST) From: "onthelake2@tds.net" <onthelake2@tds.net> Message-ID: <1585010483.30361963.1452868770561.JavaMail.zimbra@tds.net> Subject: Press Release: Iola Historical Society presentation explores the process of making historical markers
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Jan. 15, 2015
Contact: Lee Halverson at lesuhalv@wi-net.com or Greg Loescher at onthelake
2@tds.net
Photo caption: Iola Historical Society member Greg Loescher at the loading
dock of Sewah Studios in Marietta, Ohio, standing next to one of the Histor
ic Iola markers. Loescher will be giving a presentation on the marker-makin
g process and Sewah Studios’ history at the Jan. 25 meeting of the
Iola Historical Society, to be held at Living Oaks in Iola.
Iola Historical Society presentation explores
the process of making historical markers
Iola, Wis.: The Iola Historical Society (IHS) embarked on a mission in 2009
to put its local “History on a Stick” with the inauguratio
n of its Historic Iola marker program. The first marker commemorating the 1
00 th anniversary of the Iola Winter Sports Club was dedicated February 7,
2010. To date, the society has erected seven historical markers throughout
the Iola area, with anticipation to add more markers in the future as meani
ngful historical events, people, and places are documented.
Greg Loescher, an IHS member and founder/chairman of the Historic Iola mark
er program, recently visited Sewah Studios in Marietta, Ohio. Sewah
s foundry not only casts the Historic Iola markers, but most of the hist
orical markers dotting America, including the ones installed by the Wiscons
in Historical Society, such as the WHS marker at Iola Mills.
His PowerPoint presentation on the history of Sewah Studios and marker-maki
ng process at the Monday, January 25, will take place at 7:00 p.m., after t
he regular monthly meeting of the Iola Historical Society. The meeting and
presentation will be held at Living Oaks Assisted Living at 505 W. Iola Str
eet. The presentation is open to the public and is free, although goodwill
donations are always accepted.
For more information on the Historic Iola marker program, and the Iola Hist
orical Society, go to www.iolahistoricalsociety.org.
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