This evening we will be hosting the reception for the Messiah concert at Trinity Church, Altenburg. The Trinity choir will be performing a pre-concert at 2:45pm, and will be joining the large choir from Cape Girardeau for the Hallelujah Chorus. It will be the last viewing of the lovely Christmas Tree Exhibit. It has been delightful to share this beautiful display with all of our regional friends and folks from across the country. It is always a relief and a bit sad to take down the display. We have big plans for the exhibits for 2012, and I will disclose them to you this week. Our theme for the year will be "Heritage Quilt Days." We will have several special exhibits at the museum, hope to assist the East Perry County Cultural Alliance in preparing a one day show on April 14, and will host several activities involving the theme. More to come...
We have received some new family history collections in the past few weeks. I want to thank Larry Brauener and Sandi Heidorn for their family stories. Our shelves of family stories are an amazing genealogical tool. They require hours and hours of dedication to prepare, and we are so thankful to have them as a part of our collection. Another family collection we received this week came from my friend, Heather Euler, in Canada. The connection to this area is from Wittenberg, through Hildegard Boese Bardon. There is also a Weinhold family connection through Josephine Weinhold. It contains great photographs and a lot of interesting narrative. Thank you, Heather, for this nice addition to our collection. Heather compiled the history and prepared this book with her brother, Michael Bardon, who is also a friend of our museum. I hope all of you can come back and see us soon.
Our museum staffer, Jessica Reisenbichler, is working on her Senior Honors project at SEMO, and she will be working on a translation/cataloging project with our German book collection over the next few months. We are eager to take the mammoth work that the late, Bob Fiehler, did with the collection and make it more ready for entering catalog data. Jessica will work on planning a system of proper housing for this significant and rare collection. We need to make sure that all of the important family histories in the historic Bibles are noted, and some of the other books need to be identified and ready for documentation in our system. It is a wonderful opportunity for us to have Jessica as a part of our team, and we thank her for wanting to contribute her time and expertise to conduct her project here.
As I left the museum late evening on Tuesday, I was struck by the beauty of the Log College Park. I want to again thank Zach Rhodes and Troop 5, Boy Scouts of America, for the lovely work they did to landscape this amazing site. The lighting is lovely with the combination of the street lights from the Kaempfe family project, the tax credits project funds, and Zach's Eagle Project. The end result is quite pleasing to see. One of my favorite parts of the project is the sculpture of the sheep between the Log College and the Loeber Cabin. The sheep is a symbol of the original flock, led by Pastor Loeber--the first pastor in Altenburg. Pastor Loeber did not take a call to anywhere else--he chose to stay here with his people and shepherded them through the early years of survival--into the new dawn of their establishment of a church and educational center in Missouri as new citizens of the United States. Pastor Loeber, in his writings, spoke to the descendants (us!) and told us to please remember how hard everyone worked here to clear the forest, and create a place for them. He was an inspirational writer, a hardworking pastor, and a great man. I will smile and think of him and his contribution to what we have today, everytime I see the little sheep sculpture. Pastor Loeber would also be pleased to know that the sculpture site is not just a "pretty thing" but provides a drainage opportunity for the area between the cabins--it is both beautiful and practical--keeping with the "way" of our ancestors.
We now have a "History Books on CD" lending collection as a part of the Zion Roots Research Library. This extensive collection was our Christmas gift from Ken and Judy Craft. The system for checking out a sound-book is easy to do, and we have numerous selections including: European history, military history, early American history, and historic biography. There are more than 75 selections.
I pray that 2012 is treating you well, so far. This blogger turns 50! on the 24th. In half a century I have accomplished a lot of dreams for myself, and have helped other people work toward their dreams. The dream of the Perry County Lutheran Historical Society is continuing to bloom on this deep mid-winter afternoon, and I thank God (and Frank Nickell) for encouraging me to take this journey to a little town in southeast Missouri.
Take Care,
Carla L. Jordan
We have received some new family history collections in the past few weeks. I want to thank Larry Brauener and Sandi Heidorn for their family stories. Our shelves of family stories are an amazing genealogical tool. They require hours and hours of dedication to prepare, and we are so thankful to have them as a part of our collection. Another family collection we received this week came from my friend, Heather Euler, in Canada. The connection to this area is from Wittenberg, through Hildegard Boese Bardon. There is also a Weinhold family connection through Josephine Weinhold. It contains great photographs and a lot of interesting narrative. Thank you, Heather, for this nice addition to our collection. Heather compiled the history and prepared this book with her brother, Michael Bardon, who is also a friend of our museum. I hope all of you can come back and see us soon.
Our museum staffer, Jessica Reisenbichler, is working on her Senior Honors project at SEMO, and she will be working on a translation/cataloging project with our German book collection over the next few months. We are eager to take the mammoth work that the late, Bob Fiehler, did with the collection and make it more ready for entering catalog data. Jessica will work on planning a system of proper housing for this significant and rare collection. We need to make sure that all of the important family histories in the historic Bibles are noted, and some of the other books need to be identified and ready for documentation in our system. It is a wonderful opportunity for us to have Jessica as a part of our team, and we thank her for wanting to contribute her time and expertise to conduct her project here.
As I left the museum late evening on Tuesday, I was struck by the beauty of the Log College Park. I want to again thank Zach Rhodes and Troop 5, Boy Scouts of America, for the lovely work they did to landscape this amazing site. The lighting is lovely with the combination of the street lights from the Kaempfe family project, the tax credits project funds, and Zach's Eagle Project. The end result is quite pleasing to see. One of my favorite parts of the project is the sculpture of the sheep between the Log College and the Loeber Cabin. The sheep is a symbol of the original flock, led by Pastor Loeber--the first pastor in Altenburg. Pastor Loeber did not take a call to anywhere else--he chose to stay here with his people and shepherded them through the early years of survival--into the new dawn of their establishment of a church and educational center in Missouri as new citizens of the United States. Pastor Loeber, in his writings, spoke to the descendants (us!) and told us to please remember how hard everyone worked here to clear the forest, and create a place for them. He was an inspirational writer, a hardworking pastor, and a great man. I will smile and think of him and his contribution to what we have today, everytime I see the little sheep sculpture. Pastor Loeber would also be pleased to know that the sculpture site is not just a "pretty thing" but provides a drainage opportunity for the area between the cabins--it is both beautiful and practical--keeping with the "way" of our ancestors.
We now have a "History Books on CD" lending collection as a part of the Zion Roots Research Library. This extensive collection was our Christmas gift from Ken and Judy Craft. The system for checking out a sound-book is easy to do, and we have numerous selections including: European history, military history, early American history, and historic biography. There are more than 75 selections.
I pray that 2012 is treating you well, so far. This blogger turns 50! on the 24th. In half a century I have accomplished a lot of dreams for myself, and have helped other people work toward their dreams. The dream of the Perry County Lutheran Historical Society is continuing to bloom on this deep mid-winter afternoon, and I thank God (and Frank Nickell) for encouraging me to take this journey to a little town in southeast Missouri.
Take Care,
Carla L. Jordan
