Dr. Pamela Moriearty to address Logan County Genealogical & Historical Society
Topic to be the Native American Kickapoo tribes

[February 16, 2018]   LINCOLN - The Logan County Genealogical & Historical Society will meet on Monday, February 19th, 2018 at 6:30 p.m. at their downtown building at 114 N. Chicago Street in Lincoln.

There will be a small program presented by Dr. Pamela Moriearty, a University of Illinois Extension Master Naturalist volunteer will share a presentation on “Our Own Kickapoo.” Her talk will describe the history and lifestyle of a small band of Kickapoo Indians whose village was just outside the present town of Lincoln.

Moriearty will explain how this band came to settle here and how they fared in the turbulent confrontations with incoming settlers in the late 18th Century, finally leaving the area in the 1820s. Living just a mile from the current site of Lincoln’s Walmart, the native inhabitants turned trips through the forest and prairie into ingenious ways to meet the needs we now fulfill with a quick trip to the store.

Moriearty’s presentation is largely based on "The Rhoads Site: A Historic Kickapoo Village on the Illinois Prairie," a monograph from the Illinois Archeological Survey, written by Mark J. Wagner.

A short meeting will follow that will include the annual installation of officers conducted. You're invited to stay for refreshments.

Guests are Welcome!!

[Carol Farmer]