Need a program? Check out my Upcoming Appearances schedule or Past Performances below that. Topics in Past Performances can be revived for your group.

Upcoming Appearances

*****MAY 19---Along the Calumet River Westchester Public Library, Chesteron, IN. 7:30 p.m. ***** JUNE 11---Along the Calumet River Printers Row Book Fair, Chicago, IL 12-2 p.m. Book signing. ***** JULY 16---Along the Calumet River Northwest Indiana Genealogical Society meeting; Porter County Public Library, Valparaiso, IN; 10 a.m. CONTACT:? FEE: $? ***** AUGUST 17---Along the Calumet River Lunchtime Book Discusion Series, Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, IN; 12 noon CONTACT: Erin Kelley 800-447-1830 FEE: $?

Program Descriptions

ALONG THE CALUMET RIVER -- An educational and entertaining program about the river in northeast Illinois and northwest Indiana which has been home to swimmers and fishermen, steamboats and canoes, shipyards and factories for generations. Recreation and industry have co-existed on the banks of the Calumet/Grand Calumet/Little Calumet for decades. It has long been an important resource for communities from South Chicago and the southern suburbs of Chicago through Lake, Porter and LaPorte counties in Indiana. Cynthia Ogorek, author of ALONG THE CALUMET RIVER (Arcadia 2004) presents the history of the river corridor in an informal program that invites audience participation. ******* ROMANCING THE SPOON: THE VICTORIAN MANIA FOR SILVER FLATWARE is a show-and-tell program. The table is set with lace and flowers and a sparkling display of silver flatware which highlights the unusual place and serving pieces that complemented the new foods and the new wealth of post-Civil War America.**You'll find out why the Victorians needed four different soup spoons, special place silver for men and for women and a 5 o'clock spoon.**Collection silver since childhood, historian Cynthia Ogorek shares her fascination with grapefruit spoons, bond holders and sardine servers---and all the stories that go with them.

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Past Performances

**** "A Farming History of the Southern Suburbs," South Suburban Heritage Association annual local history conference, South Holland, IL, 2002 **** "The Michigan City Road, A History of the 19th Century Route from Chicago to Michigan City, IN," South Suburban Heritage Association annual local history conference, Homewood, IL, 2000 **** "The Englewood Woman's Club and the Founding of the Oakhaven Old Peoples Home," Illinois History Symposium, Springfield, IL 1998 **** "The History of the Lincoln Highway in Matteson, IL," Matteson Historical Museum, 1999 **** "On Doing Local History," Governors State University, 2001 ****

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