ISHS Annual MeetingApril 28-29, 2006

Starved Rock Lodge

View of the I & M Canal from the LaSalle County Historical Museum in Utica

LaSalle County Historical Museum in Utica

Charlotte Renehan, Mary Lou Johnsrud, and Alberta Conover on the I & M Canal

ISHS members learning about the LaSalle County Historical Museum in Utica

Blacksmith Dan Etheridge demonstrating his art at the LaSalle County

Historical Museum in Utica

LaSalle County Historical Museum in Utica

LaSalle County Historical Museum in Utica

Marv Ehlers and David and Virginia Scott in downtown Utica

Dennis Williams paying close attention to the teacher in the one-room schoolhouse at the LaSalle County Historical Museum in Utica

Bill Furry and Ted Wachhold at the 1865 one-room Aitken School at the LaSalle County Historical Museum in Utica

Shabbona’s rock at the LaSalle County Historical Museum in Utica

Elaine Egdorf on Shabbona’s rock

at the LaSalle County Historical Museum in Utica

The I & M Lock 14 in LaSalle

ISHS members learn from an I & M Lock 14 re-enactor

Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Hoshaw at the I & M Canal Lock 14

The Cherry Mine slag heaps

Rededication of the Cherry Mine Disaster Marker

Cherry Mine Disaster graves at Cherry Cemetery

ISHS members boarding the caboose at the Mendota Railroad Museum

Mendota Railroad Museum

Stu Fliege sharing his wealth of railroad knowledge with Bill Furry and

Larry Hansen at the Mendota Railroad Museum

Mendota Railroad Museum

Mendota Railroad Museum

Mendota Railroad Museum

Mendota Railroad Museum

Mendota Railroad Museum

Jim and Robyn Williams at the Annual Meeting Dinner at Pitsticks Pavilion outside Ottawa

Stu and Judy Fliege at the Annual Meeting Dinner at Pitsticks Pavilion outside Ottawa

Wolf Fuhrig and Gary Vitale at Pitsticks Pavilion outside Ottawa

I & M Grain Elevator in Seneca

I & M Grain Elevator in Seneca

Gerald Hulslander sharing the history of the I & M Grain Elevator in Seneca

The I & M Canal at the Grain Elevator in Seneca

I & M Grain Elevator in Seneca

An early Phillips 66 in Seneca

I & M Aqueduct ruins at Fox River

I & M Aqueduct ruins at Fox River

Illinois River Lock & Dam Museum

Illinois River Lock & Dam Museum

Illinois River Lock & Dam

Starved Rock from the Illinois River Lock & Dam

Steve Huntley accepts the Superior Achievement Award for Truman K. Gibson, Jr., and his landmark book “Knocking Down Barriers: My Fight

for Black America” at the Awards Ceremony at Starved Rock Lodge

Roger Biles accepts an award for his book “Illinois: A History of the Land and Its People” at the Awards Ceremony at Starved Rock Lodge

Bob Saigh from the Hinsdale Historical Society accepts an award at the Awards Ceremony at Starved Rock Lodge

Patrick McDaniel accepts an award for the Macon County Historical Society award for the museum’s brochure

Happy Dean presents Betsy Brown the Olive Foster “Teacher of the Year Award”

Marv Ehlers presents Peggy Hood with an award for the Bushnell Area Historical Society

Marjorie Stueckemann, Evelyn Krenek Fergle, and Juli Nelson receive an award for their publication on the Bohemian National Cemetery

Sue Betz receives awards for Northwestern University Press

Marjorie Fechtig and Janet Pritchett of the White County Historical Society receive an award for “Making History Come Alive,”

a program for second- and fifth-grade students

Wallace Best receives an award for “Passionately Human, No Less Divine: Religion and Culture in Black Chicago, 1915-1952