Jan Schumacher visits the Mount Pulaski Township Historical Society Museum

August 30, 2005

[Jan's article on the Mount Pulaski Museum will appear in this Saturday's Lincoln Courier]

Jane DeWitt shows Maxine Downing and Jan Schumacher the Lincoln Top Hat Votive Light,
which will be on sale beginning during the Fall Festival weekend.
Waneta Stephens sits proudly on one of several chairs from her Bryson grandparents,
which have been donated to the Mount Pulaski Museum - Parlor room.
Museum Restoration Director, Betty Hickey, shows Jan
 a vintage dress (circa 1900) that belonged to
Waneta's Bryson family		 Jan posing with some of the museum restoration workers:
Tom & Waneta Stephens, Betty Hickey, Jane DeWitt,
Jan, Maxine Downing, Wally Kautz & Darrell Knauer.
Not shown:  Phil & Gini Bertoni, Bob McCue,
Phyliss & Bill Bryson, Dolly Buckles, Margaret Lanterman,
Tom Martin, Charolett McGee, Jim Irish, etc.
Betty shows part of the school-room alphabet
that will be displayed above the black board		 Waneta shows Jan the Febus family history
book that she compiled
Jane shows Jan her Mount Pulaski
 Cemetery book that she compiled.  Jane currently
serves as President of the Mount Pulaski Township
Historical Society.		 Waneta shows both Jan and Jane the Bryson family
history book that she compiled.  Waneta points to a picture
of the room in the family home where the
donated furniture was located.
Waneta invited Jan to our Mount Pulaski
Township Society Museum		 Jan discovers two books written by
Mount Pulaskians about their town
and surrounding countryside